Crabs Are So Gentle, They Can Be So Kind. Their Claws? Precise Little Things, So Careful In The Sand,

These are so fun to make

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leopard seals are my favorite seal species they're so fucking weird looking i love them

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Art by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, (1707 - 1788)

There were a lot of freshwater mussels on the 2021 US extinction list. They didn’t leave us with haunting recordings of them calling out for a mate they’d never meet, there were no drawings in vivid color. They were extremely important nevertheless and their loss is frustrating too. That’s why stream ecology and mollusks have always fascinated me. They were silent, stalwart little heroes and entire species were lost to pollution.

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart