Do you think a human could snap theirsโ wing bones without using equipment?
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Their wing bones are designed not only to support their weight when moving quadrupedally, but also for spring launching them into the air. And they are huge. And have honeycombed bones like birds, for strength without weight. I canโt imagine a human snapping their wing bones with any kind of ease.
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So once again fiction strangely becomes begone realityโฆ
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I wonder what other crazy things we will discover in due time?
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Maybe not that much, or maybe this year will gather even more gloryโฆ
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The dinoflagellate (single cell organism) Erythropsidinium has the smallest known eye.
Light micrograph of a single Erythropsidinium sp. isolate (a Warnowiid dinoflagellate). Double arrowhead = ocelloid (light-sensitive structure analogous to metazoan eyes); arrow = piston. Scale bar = 20 microns. This image is lightly edited to remove distracting panel label from Panel R of Figure 1 from Hoppenrath et al. 2009, Molecular phylogeny of ocelloid-bearing dinoflagellates (Warnowiaceae) as inferred from SSU and LSU rDNA sequences, BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:116. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-116.
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Well thatโs one big eye. Not as large in proportion to the body as some birds I suppose though.
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Methuselah is an Australian lungfish found in the Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco, and is the oldest current fish kept in captivity. Using DNA methylation in 2023, Methuselah was estimated to be 92-101 years old. She (based on behavioral cues, since Australian Lungfish are not sexual dimorphic) likes belly and back rubs.
By Shuvuuia - Own work, CC BY 4.0, File:Methuselah lungfish.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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I wonder if weโll get greenland sharks in captivity one dayโฆ
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Mayflies have an adult life of about one day, which means they emerge from the water, survive predators, reproduce, and die within about 24 hours!
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They do live a while as larvae though iirc
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A syzygy is the astronomical term for the roughly straight true alignment of astronomical objects like stars, planets, moons, e.t.c., in space, with eclipses being one special case of this phenomenon. A planetary parade is the rough apparent alignment of multiple planets when seen from a particular view point on Earth, and is not a true alignment in space. One such planetary parade will occur late February of this year involving all the โmajorโ planets and the Moon (may not visible for everyone, especially with Uranus and Neptune being invisible to the unaided eye).
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Pretty sure eclipses are one of just 3 major types of phenomena that can result from this kind of interaction, 2 others are also very similar to them
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imagine you are looking at the moon during a solar eclipse. you then hop onto your spaceship and go to the moons surface a few seconds later. at which point does the situation change from an eclipse into a night? the midpoint? once you exit the atmosphere? a solar eclipse and a night are the probably the same thing. but eclipse sounds cooler. every night the horizon eclipses the sun. every morning the birds chirp during the de-eclipsation. fun fact, every night eclipse is a total eclipse, but if the sun expands into a red giant and engulfs the earth, there will be a brief moment when it will be an annular eclipse as well. it depends on how high your eyes are above the ground. it would also be the worlds biggest coronograph. by definition. if we found out that mercury was falling to the sun, we would definitely tag along a parker probe after it, right
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I think mercury will take a while to completely fall into a red giant star due to how low density these are
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photoheterotrophs are organisms which use light to process organic molecules to acquire their carbon and energy, not organisms that do photoautotrophy and heterotrophy, those are called photomixotrophs
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Photoheterotrophs seem to be mostly prokaryotic
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I fixed my post to say Photmixotroph, as that is what I meant, though, looking into it, Photheterotrophs get all their energy from photsynthesis, using it to process organic molecules specifically for carbon. So we were sort of both wrong, unless I am misunderstanding something.
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No I think willow was correct here, photomixotroph does really seem to fit Euglena.
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