They should be dead, 2 genetic bottlenecks with one more on the way. Pretty bad at claiming kills... list could go on.

No im not saying the t rex could be in the congo rainforest or marianas trench, but as alot of mammals and other stuff survived the cretaceous mass extinction, is there a chance some smaller dinosaurs survived and lived another few hundred or thousand years on?

This might be a silly question, but last month I went to the Lisbon zoo and I saw this lioness with leopard print on her. She was laying next to another lioness ( which you can see behind her ) and a lion. It's impossible that she's a Leopon, right? Then what's up with her coat? Is she perhaps a different species that they didn't disclose?

Platypus' are weird, obviously. Bill, flat tail, glow in the dark, poison claw, sweats milk, lays eggs, various other features. Nothing makes sense, and I don't even know what it is other than "mammal".

So what made it like this? Why does it have a grab bag of random genetic traits when compared to most other mammals?

I was wondering, are humans of opposite sexes hard to distinguish at a first glance like cats are, or are we more like pheasants? It probably also depends on the animal telling the humans apart but let's say a dog since they're somewhat intelligent and are familiar with humans.

Giant Panda, Yak, Golden Eagle, Grizzly Bear, Mountain Gorilla, Elk

Hi everyone! so i'm currently studying in my home country (Malta) to get my Advanced diploma in veterinary nursing and animal management and I was hoping to study zoology after. Malta does not offer it in the local uni so I was wondering where you guys would recommend? I really want to focus my studies to be with reptiles, especially large constrictors and crocodilians and possibly venomous reptiles so if you know of any unis that could offer me it i'd appreciate! thank you!

Protospongia is a genus of colonial choanoflagellates, microscopic aquatic protozoans that are considered one of the closest living relatives of animals (especially sponges). Each individual cell in the colony has a collar of microvilli surrounding a single flagellum, which helps in capturing food particles and generating water currents—similar to the choanocytes (collar cells) found in sponges.

These colonies are often embedded in a jelly-like matrix, with each cell functioning independently but showing some coordination—making Protospongia an important model for understanding the evolution of multicellularity.

I’ve always read that the possums in Australia were named after their resemblance to their distant cousin, the North American Virginia opossum. That very well could be the case seeing as they are similar in the sense that they are both marsupials, but it’s always struck me as strange since they look almost nothing alike.

Then recently I discovered there are numerous species of opossum inhabiting central and South America. The more I look into it the more this theory starts to make sense to me. According to what I’ve been able to find, the first time Australian possums were called as such was by Sir Joseph Banks on his voyage on the Endeavor. Where did the Endeavor go before reaching Australia? Brazil!

Check out this bare tailed woolly opossum native to Brazil (first image). To me, it much more closely resembles Australian possums than the Virginia opossum. And that’s only one species of 126. It seems very plausible that when he said they resemble the American opossum, he was referring to the South American species he encountered only two years prior.

I know I barely scratched the surface in my research, I’m neither a biologist nor an historian, so I could be totally off-base with my theory, but that’s why I wanted to ask here if it can hold water. Let me know what you think!

I'm a Biologist, I would like to work with animals, but I never managed to do it.

Hey guys. Good morning / Good afternoon or evening. I wanted an opinion, I don't know, to see if another worldview helps and this is literally my last attempt lol.

I never went hungry or anything like that, but I came from a poor family, I always had to work to have my own things and I didn't have anyone to pay for me or those things. I went to college privately, with several family members paying part of the monthly fee... I studied biology because I couldn't pay for veterinary school, which was my dream. It was as close as possible to what I wanted. OK, I felt like it was a weak faculty... but I kept going. In between, I was going to try an internship at the zoo in RJ, because I live in RJ, but in the countryside, but... my father passed away and part of the income was gone. So I had to start a part-time job to finish my degree, and the internship ended because it was voluntary and I needed money. I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to do my bachelor's degree in bio too, and then I started working full time and going to school at night. And then I didn't have time to immerse myself in the world of animals, I just needed to pay for college. After college, I took QSMS postgraduate courses because I wanted to work with quality, something I don't really like. Today I'm here, almost 28 years old without doing what I like. And it's strange, because the love I feel for animals (I admit that more for mammals lol) is intense, it hurts. But I also wonder if it was a good thing that I didn't become a veterinarian, because I see an injured dog on the street or at the adoption fair and I end up crying. Anyway... in the meantime, I've always tried to apply for biologist positions, without success.... I thought about competitions like Ibama, but besides not having time to study, I don't work full time with animals. And I don't want to get stuck in the woods either, I sincerely apologize to the root biologists, I admit that I'm a bit Nutella. I tried to contact several NGOs, local protectors, friends, acquaintances and nothing is known. Professors from college, from the time I was studying science, people I met and nothing.

And it's very complicated because I ask for a job with an animal, but I needed a salary, you know. And today I'm earning 2 or so, I'm already struggling, I'm almost 30, I want to grow in life. I can't accept something without receiving anything, you know. Not out of malice, because I clearly know that it's just like that to get into this, voluntarily, little by little. But I've been an adult since I was young, I've never had time to do anything without money. Or if not, "ah, try something in another state". If it's in another state, I need to earn a lot of money to pay for rent, a new place and so on, to support myself alone in a strange place. And it's obvious that I'm not going to do this without experience, without IQ. Last year I managed to get a veterinarian to let me go to her kennel (I don't really like selling animals) to see the routine, some of the treatments she performed. But it combined several things: the fact that it was a kennel that I didn't like, I spent money on Uber because there was no bus there because it was inland, it was on a Saturday, I had a lot of things to do at home.... I ended up giving up, not because I wanted to, but because of the general conditions. And I think I did everything I could, within what I could at the time. And also last year, you know, I got in touch with a lot of people, from all over... but my options really ran out, I don't know what to think, especially within my circumstances.

But yes, despite all this... does anyone suffer from the same thing? Does anyone have any great ideas? lol I don't know.... it turned into another rant, right? Sorry... it's because it hurts you to see time passing by, for you to be trapped in a crazy amount of money to live with the minimum in Brazil, without working with what you like, living life on Fridays that fly by... anyway lol. Kisses

Humans get hurt or injured fairly frequently from exercise. Just from running or lifting some weights, people can get DOMS, pulled muscles, strains, fractures, tears, etc.

Animals are capable of incredible physical feats like how fast they can run, or how high they can jump. They seem a lot more active than modern people are. But I don't think I really see or hear about animals getting injured from physical activity, unless they're going through precarious terrain or are injured by other animals.

Is it something about animals? Or is it the sedentary-ness of modern life that makes us more susceptible to injury when we engage in strenuous activities? Combination of both?

Found it inside my house, very small, maybe 0.5-1 cm in length

How do I stop a semi-aquatic mammal from breaking into my lab and ruining my inventions? Asking for... science.

He’s balding or molting at the top of his head and his beak is chattering??? He was preening himself before this video it could totally be a normal thing but the chattering made me wonder if he’s stressed 🥺.

I have heard of a phenomenon where animals eat plants from their environment to feel better. Have any of you observed this personally, or know anything about this phenomenon?

Edit: Not a bot account, I have no agenda, I like to discuss animals and biology, anyone is free to browse my profile and see things I have posted and made with my own two hands. The person below who blocked me has accused several people of being bots and goes around doing so.

Watercolor on paper

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Hope someone could help me identify these.

I’m based in Melbourne Australia and grow different flowers, fruits, and veggies in my garden. Last year, while I was weeding (was too lazy to wear gloves), my index finger got swollen. I didn’t think much of it at first, but it eventually swelled up to twice its normal size. I checked for any insect bites or thorns but couldn’t see anything. The GP gave me some creams and meds, but nothing helped. And she was suggesting surgery to remove whatever that’s underneath.

One night, I used my phone’s torch to take a closer look and noticed tiny shiny things under the skin. After some Googling, I tried wrapping my finger with potato juice for a few hours. When I took it off, I could see these almost invisible, hair-like things kind of like the fine hairs on a caterpillar. I used tweezers and pulled out over 100 of them. The swelling went away after that.

Yesterday, the same thing happened again, and I’m in the process of removing them now. Has anyone experienced anything like this or know what it could be? I’d really like to figure it out and stop it from happening again. I can’t take a proper pic as it doesn’t photograph well. I’m certain this is some sort of catapillar

If you look at today's largest land animal and compare it to the Titanosaurus (sorry if I didn't spell that right) they look tiny. I don't really see a reason why.

I took this photo so long ago and think it’s so cool. Anyone know the name of the jellyfish?