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Starfish Regeneration
Many starfishes have the ability to regenerate lost arms. Some can even regenerate a complete new disk from a severed arm, while others need a bit of the original disk attached to do so. Until it develops mouth parts, the arm must survive on stored nutrients.
Some species reproduce asexually by fission of their disks or dropping their arms. A regenerating arm in the process of growing a disk is known as a ‘comet’.
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An arm must survive on stored nutrients before it develops mouth parts. That’s fantastic!
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she was a girl
he was a boy
can i make it any more convoluted and unnecessarily complicated
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Tell Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling bee-killing pesticides
Bees are essential for one out of three bites of food we eat. But last winter, beekeepers reported losses of 50-70 percent of their hives — the worst year yet since the global bee die-off began!
A growing body of scientific evidence is pointing to neonicotinoids (neonics) as the key factor in this crisis and the European Union has just imposed a two year ban on these toxic pesticides.
These neonics are everywhere — in commercial agriculture, on the shelf of your local garden stores, and in the plants and seeds we buy from nurseries.
Bee part of the solution! Tell Home Depot, Lowe’s and others to stop selling neonics.
WHY WOULD YOU KILL BEES ESPECIALLY IF YOU FUCKING GARDEN
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Secret Found For Amazing Clingfish Suction Power
by Joseph Castro
Using tiny hairs similar to those on gecko feet, clingfish are able to strongly and equally adhere to surfaces with a broad range of roughness, new research shows. The fish’s suction powers easily outperform manmade suction cups, scientists say, adding that mimicking their design could lead to a new class of suction devices.
The northern clingfish (Gobiesox maeandricus) is a species of salt-water fish native to the Pacific Coast of North America. The fish live in rocky intertidal environments, where strong waves and currents threaten to toss them about. To survive in this turbulent setting, the fish has evolved an adhesion disc on its belly, which takes up about 25 percent of its underside. Using the disc, the fish can achieve a death-grip on a variety of surfaces…
(read more: Live Science) (photo: Thomas Kleinteich)
Death-grip! My favourite kind of grip!
A male magnificent bird-of-paradise (Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero - BBC)
