For the Love of Squirrels
I currently live in Upstate New York, but was born and raised in Germany! (Yes, I AM German. I speak it, write it, yell in it, swear in it, dream it, and have that thing called a citizenship.) And I'm very proud (oooh, a sin) of being both a German/Bavarian and an U.S.-ian.
I'm a French major whose French is terrible and therefore I am going to Montpellier, France for a year this fall!
This blog is anything and everything that I like. :D And you may be wondering about the name of my blog. The answer to your question is that my favorite animal are squirrels.
Ask me anything
But i’m a crepe
i’m a weirdough
what the hell am i doughing here
i doughnut belong here
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Baby Bat [x]
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Russians Recover Fresh Flowing Mammoth Blood
About 15,000 years ago, an old female wooly mammoth plunged through the ice as she was being chased by predators. Her remains have now been uncovered by scientists working in Siberia. And remarkably, as they were digging it out, blood began to stream out - wich is weird given that it was 10° below freezing.
It’s not known if the blood or tissue samples contain living cells required for cloning. And even if such cells are recovered, the DNA repair would require a very complex process that could take years. A report is expected later this July.
The beautifully preserved specimen was discovered partially embedded in a chunk of ice at an excavation on the Lyakhovsky Island, the southernmost group of the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic seas of northeastern Russia.
The mammoth’s lower portions, including the stomach, were locked in the ice for the past 10,000 to 15,000 years. Its lower jaw and tongue were also recovered; the trunk was found separately from the carcass. The upper torso and two legs were preserved in soil and show signs of being gnawed upon by both prehistoric and modern predators.
Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Museum of Mammoths of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North at the North Eastern Federal University, is calling it “the best preserved mammoth in the history of paleontology.”
During the excavation, and as the researchers were chipping away at the ice, they noticed splotches of dark blood in the ice cavities below the mammoth’s belly. When they broke through with a poll pick, blood started to flow out.
“It can be assumed that the blood of mammoths had some cryo-protective properties,” noted Grigoriev. Mammoth blood, it would appear, contains a kind of anti-freeze. This is consistent with work done by Canadian geneticists who in 2010 showed that mammoth hemoglobin releases its oxygen much more readily at cold temperatures than that of modern elephants.
In addition to the blood, the paleontologists also recovered well-preserved muscle tissue. The scientists say it has a natural red color of fresh meat. The blood is currently undergoing a bacteriological analysis, and the results are expected soon.
Based on the preliminary evidence, the scientists say the female wooly mammoth was anywhere from 50 to 60 years old and weighed about three tons. They theorize that she was trying to escape from predators when she fell through the ice, or that she got bogged down in a swamp.
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Sometimes the jokes write themselves
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I need feminism because I should not be ridiculed daily for a haircut. (I’m feminine too!)
Since taking this photo and getting the courage to submit it, I have shaved half my head and still undergo daily criticism, insults, and countless other degredations of myself as a woman and a human being in general.
This is why I need feminism.
Harry Potter’s effect on society. I like it.
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NO BUT SERIOUSLY
WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THE QUETZALCOATLUS?!
I MEAN, JESUS F. CHRIST.
PTERODACTYLS AIN’T SHIT NEXT TO THESE MOTHER FUCKERS. QUETZALCOATLUS FUCKING ATE BABY DINOSAURS FOR BRUNCH.
LITTLE-FOOT, NOOOO!!!
JUST IMAGINE SOMETHING AS TALL AS A MOTHER FUCKING GIRAFFE
SOARING THROUGH THE SKIES AT 80 MILES PER HOUR, AND THEN SWOOPING DOWN AND FUCKING EATING YOUR FACE OFF.
FUCKING QUETZALCOATLUS
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- there is a sustainable treehouse community
- in the middle of the costa rican rainforest
- people can zipline from house to house
- they have wi-fi ARE YOU SHITTING ME WHY DON’T I LIVE THERE RIGHT NOW
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I just want to see the floating lanterns gleam
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people are boycotting the Kraft commercials for the “Zesty” salad topping because it features a topless man in compromising situations.
people are boycotting it because it sexualizes a man.
people are boycotting a commercial that features one of the oldest marketing strategies because this time it’s a man being exploited.
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