on my trip to colombia's western andes we saw dozens of these cicadas (to the point that a recurring joke was to say "i have a gift" and then hand over a cicada) and it turns out it's an undescribed species
when you see a red-bellied woodpecker for the first time you might ask “why do we not call it a red-headed woodpecker?” but then you see the real red-headed woodpecker and it all makes sense
Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.
Can you imagine in 200 years when all of earths amazing animals are extinct and people are looking back on the dumbest quotes like this? Like seriously why can’t anyone in power just care about conservation and not space, war or ‘aliens’ 🤦🏻♂️
@shellenberger Oh yeah. Everyone knows that when people’s values and perspectives differ from yours, it’s always because they’re being engineered by nefarious forces.
I can’t believe I ever respected you.
Earliest mosquito larva ever discovered from Cretaceous 99-million-year-old amber!!
this supports the Jurassic origin of mosquitoes, their diversity in the Cretaceous, and that the larval body plan has barely changed past 99 million years