I just ate the buttered noodles i made drunkenly at midnight last night out of a plastic gelato container that melted a lil in the microwave at work and i got to a piece of noodle that was chewy and uncooked and turned out to be a match that i had been trying to use to light the stove last night but couldn’t because i was using the wrong end of the match and now i have presumably have cancer as well as dumb bitch disease
I don’t really deal with it well either and really the only positive takeaway for me is knowing that some animals will thrive pretty much no matter how bad it can get, which means those will be the animals re-diversifying and dominating the planet in an evolutionary explosion of new species long after we’re all gone.
Past extinction events were what filled the ocean with fish, turned huge dinosaurs into tiny birds and flooded the planet with mammals, to name a few big shifts.
One thing that seems to love the warming oceans are soft-bodied cephalopods, who also seem to love that we’re eating up their fish competitors, so we might just be handing the ocean over to an octopus-based future.
On land, the predictable roaches, ants, wasps and rats are doing well, as are clever corvids.
The BEST equipped land mammals in my opinion, however, are all of the armadillos. Their range is already rapidly expanding because many armadillo species are opportunistic omnivores well adapted for harsh, unpredictable climates and can establish themselves anywhere from flooded swamps to barren deserts. They burrow and they swim and they can scavenge almost anything.
When the huge dinosaurs disappeared, it left tiny rodent-sized mammals free to diversify into every furry milk-making thing we have today; wolves and whales and bats and humans. That’s UNBELIEVABLE. That’s so many absurdly different things that all came from basically a shrew.
50 million years from now, what if there’s a planet full of wolfadillos and whaleadillos and battadillos and….I don’t know if anything as monstrously brained and imaginative as us will ever re-evolve, that already took almost a billion years to accidentally happen the one time, but, anything is possible. Maybe they’d be a gentler people.
I thought about you when i reblogged this because this is literally a chair I would have in my house, I love this so much, I want it to sit in the back yard surrounded by trees and slowly greening with moss, a cool place to rest and get tetanus.
Any other wuluwuhs on this website got a big ol crush on emma boettcher. I’m halfway through Tuesday nights episode if you’re caught up on jeopardy don’t interact
A European common toad [Bufo bufo] resting peacefully below the surface of a flooded field. In some amphibians, such as lungless salamanders, cutaneous [skin-based] respiration may account for more than 90% of gas exchange. This type of oxygen absorption relies on moisture, and although toads are more tolerant of dry conditions than salamanders, they are still capable of respiration through their skin when submerged in water for short periods of time. That’s why you’ll sometimes find toads sitting at the bottom of ponds, like this fellow here. Image source here.
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