Wasn't She A Siren Created In Another Experiment? I'm Not Sure This Is Romantic... That Would Make Her

Wasn't she a siren created in another experiment? I'm not sure this is romantic... That would make her Stitch's cousin.

if I use the wrong pronouns or a name you no longer identify with, please please please please tell me. the 0.5 seconds of awkwardness i will experience mean nothing to me. your happiess and comfort do.

Or she's such a sweet person that she made sure the elephant was happy worth the photo before she posted it

Also, for science-related academic texts they really do have to be that specific and use latin names. It wouldn't make any sense if they didn't.

I can’t stand the unnecessary use of alienating high brow language in most academic texts. It’s like it’s used as a secret password to keep ‘the wrong kind of people’ out from entering into the club (the club being knowledge of course). They use language as a way of building up walls that you have to plot your way through like a maze. Surely the mark of a good academic text, of any text that is used to educate or expand understanding, should be its accessibility and clarity. When works lock people out who wish to access them, then they only speak to the people who are already in the room who already have knowledge. It’s all a gross congratulatory circle jerk.

ok so i’m kinda curious about something, reblog this and add what the weirdest thing in your room right now is in the tags

THIS IS HOW SCIENCE IS DONE. THERE ARE NO FINAL AUTHORITIES. YOU TEST AND RE-TEST. Sometimes you get a Nobel Prize for showing that everyone else is wrong. ____________________________________

Natural History Museum Scientists Re-examine the Type Specimen, Reject Celebrity Amphibian Caecilita iwokramae’s Claim to Fame

17 March 2014 // Natural History Museum

The discovery of a well-developed lung and working nostrils has overturned the mistaken identity of an amphibian previously reported to be lungless.

When it was first described in 2010, the amphibian, Caecilita iwokramae, caused a stir because of its lack of lungs or open nostrils. The revelation was widely reported in the science press.

Although there are several other known examples of lungless amphibians, this was the only one that had clearly evolved on land, rather than in water, challenging a popular theory of why some creatures lost their lungs.

Now, in research published today in the journal Zootaxa, a team led by scientists at the Natural History Museum has re-examined the original sample of C. iwokramae and several new specimens, and found it does in fact have one well-developed lung connected to working nostrils.

Reporting on a scientific journal article:

Zootaxa 3779 (3): 383–388 (17 Mar. 2014)

“Caecilita Wake & Donnelly, 2010 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) is not lungless: implications for taxonomy and for understanding the evolution of lunglessness” //  by Mark Wilkinson et al.  // Open access / available as PDF

Top (2010) Image:  Photo: Giant Lungless “Worm” Found Living on Land credit: Marvalee Wake, University of California, Berkeley

Bottom (2014) Image: The head of C. iwokramae, with arrows showing the position of the open nostrils. Top left: CT scan of the head. The skull is in yellow. Bottom left: photo of the head with the nostril stained blue. SOURCE: Zootaxa 3779 (3).