A microscopic tardigrade, also known as a water bear, walking across a glass slide. Extremely resilient, it can survive decades without food or water and are the only known animal that can survive in direct exposure in space. [🔬 Tobin Sparling]

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Discover the adorable tardigrade waving at you! These resilient creatures can survive extreme conditions and showcase unique behaviors. Watch their friendly moves up close.

Scientists have discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country.

A new mechanism for “RNA memory”! This time in Planaria! (Here's a video of a Planarian with mulitple heads, one of the heritable phenotypes we studied).

This work summarizes >10 years of research and is an amazing collaboration with the labs of Jochen Rink and Omri Wurtzel labs. Read thrad below👇

flipped an eastern wormsnake

so dang cute

oh! i missed some context there, perks of being a rando on the internet! sorry about that :)

i get where you're coming from, but this maybe isn't the best place to complain? I'd love to hear about it in its own thread. :)
let's let her enjoy her win! congrats!!

Baby jellyfish at New England Aquarium

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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive.

Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list.

Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

a mantis who looks like a chasmanthe plant

i love finding out about a new bug we have to get his name out there (toxodera integrifolia)

Research Highlight: Deep-Sea Churro Finds its Evolutionary Home Churros, the delicious snacks covered with cinnamon sugar and served with hot chocolate, have a doppelganger in the deep sea. The deep-sea worm named after the deep-fried sticks of dough was recently ...

With all the madness going on, a one-holed worm thing with a no brain or any identifiable organs is quietly crawling somewhere on the ocean floor--and it is named after a churro. #xenoturbella_churro

scripps.ucsd.edu/news/researc...

please watch video of this little Vampyrella amoeba drinking the juice out of individual algae cells and then rolling around like a katamari to seek more juice www.sciencephoto.com/media/688201...

Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest-ever animals ate Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate

Hallucigenia ate comb jellies
www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

Cats can't resist bubble wrap either!

#cats #catsky

A microscopic tardigrade going for a stroll through some algae.

Credit: Sinclair Stammers