A record-breaking, 10-inch-long whopper of a bullfrog tadpole was discovered by a crew of ecologists in a pond in Arizona.
The biggest tadpole ever found—at a whopping 10 inches long—was discovered
by a crew of ecologists in a pond in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. Alina Downer, an intern at the American Museum of Natural
History’s Southwestern Research Station, came across the monster
bullfrog tadpole as her crew was draining a manmade pond as part of a
habitat restoration project for the endangered Chiricahua leopard frog.
As the water level lowered, Downer
and her colleagues were assessing what organisms were left in the muddy
shallows that she likened to “chocolate soup.” Downer says, “I was
fishing around with my hands while walking in the water, and I felt
something large, smooth, and wriggly—which was unexpected, since the
only other fish in the pond were about an inch long.”
As
an avid naturalist, Downer’s first instinct was curiosity. “At first I
thought it was a giant catfish,” she says, grinning at the uncanny
memory. “Whatever it was, I knew I had to grab it.” She herded the slippery creature into shallower water until she could capture it. To her surprise, it turned out to be “an enormous monster of a tadpole”—so
big she had to hold it with two hands…
Not to undervalue at all the coolness of this discovery but I feel like the above quote is a valuable supporting evidence of field biologists intrinsically possessing diminished survival instincts and higher numbers of cool scar stories.
it’s really funny how many people on here make jokes about anti-vaxxers and flat earthers but they practice astrology at the same time even though it’s literally the same pseudo-scientific bullshit
Looking up your horoscope doesn’t give kids polio.
most astrology related posts on this site are homstuck in disguise
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TIER TWO: roxy, dave, dirk, john, terezi (they can smoke but usually get high super fast and have no chill when high. roxy goes to restaurants high and tips like $40 on a $15 order. she gets….fucked up. dirk and john just get fucked up in walmart at 1 am)
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tier five; caliborn who was sold oregano and doesnt realize it
You’re born with the ability to see through the ground. Dinosaur bones, gems, gold, so on. There’s usually one or two human skeletons, and you’ve learned to live with it, but one day you stop at a small town on a road trip, and every square inch is littered with human bones.
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