Hi I am actually human. Not a platypus.I was going to write here about how fucking awesome I am because I like the things I post on my tumblr.
I was going to write stuff like
"I like nature"
"I like art, photos, illustrations, etc."
"I like politics"
"I like weed"
"I like..."
but instead I have decided to not do that because I realized that it doesn't mean shit.
I realized that I'm too lazy to do so..
by the way, I need to apologize to you about something.
I lied. I am a platypus.
A recent study(freePDF) from Stanford University published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) considers how some reef building corals resist the stress of warmer waters that has caused coral bleaching around the world.
Using comparative genomics, researchers found that the heat tolerant corals have prepared for heat by switching on a set of 60 particular genes. Other coral species have also been found to switch on these genes but only after stress has already occurred. Resilient Samoan corals, however, have these genes switched on all of the time.
The results of the study show that some corals have the ability to withstand future increases in ocean temperature and highlight efforts to protect these resilient places.
Learn more at: http://www.oceansciencenow.com/wp/. The full PNAS article can also be found online here.
Scalloped Hammerhead (by amwah)
lol interesting. i like the ocean.
Whale shark, Yucatan Peninsula
again from National Geographic’s best of September 2012
hammocks are my fav
sperm whales sleeping
i really want to go to australia
from reddit
