I Anthropomorphized More Weird Unloved Animals Again. They Deserve Love Too

man, I love this character so much! [fills them with a deep and inescapable yearning which they don’t know how to fill or even name]

Gene-edited 'Peter Pan' cane toad that never grows up created to eat its siblings, control invasive species

The removed gene controls the production of the hormone thyroxine, which fuels the metamorphosis that occurs when a tadpole transforms into a toad. Rick Shine, an evolutionary biologist and ecologist at Macquarie University, is one of the scientists behind the "Peter Pan toads". He said cane toad tadpoles were known to be voracious cannibals with a preference for snacking on their kin, both in egg and hatchling form. This is especially true in Australia where rates of cannibalism of hatchlings by tadpoles have been recorded as 2.4 times that of South America — where the cane toad originated...

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-04-08/cane-toad-created-that-never-grows-up-and-eats-its-siblings/105100286

beating you over the head never forget the service ac crispin did for us when she made jack canonically into dominant women she was a hero for that

how it feels to explain a species complex

kyaaaa I'm late to vampire school *runs out while holding a dude by the neck in my mouth*

dracula daily is happening and it's awesome so let's all celebrate lucy/mina

"If Mr. Holmwood fell in love with her seeing her only in the drawing-room, I wonder what he would say if he saw her now." that's not very heterosexual of you girl. <3

The Carmilla ending was truly riveting

is this anything

Sometimes when my old germophobia tries to kick in because of a dirty public restroom or something I just have to tell myself "hey, there are weird perverts who'd have touched this on purpose, and they're still alive"