My Favorite Things (Darwin Day 2024) by Concavenator, literature
Literature
My Favorite Things (Darwin Day 2024)
Slime molds and glowworms, tongue-eating crustaceans,
gall tumors, sea angels, and strap-toothed cetaceans,
parasite yew trees and old termite kings,
these are a few of my favorite things.
Cyclopes created by skewed gene expression [1],
scavengers sharing their feast in succession,
moths that paint dropping and flies on their wings,
these are a few of my favorite things.
Paradox tadpoles and immortal jellies,
pandoravirus, and whatever the hell is
the Ediacaran fauna and its lobes, frills, and rings:
these are a few of my favorite things.
When I mourn in time the poor thylacine
Or the golden toad
I remember there's mold that grows its own eyes
And that those eyes explode
Fifty thousand spiders, and one's vegetarian;
there's bees that make honey with flesh from a carrion; [2]
some fish walk on grass, the sand shark eats its twins;
these are a few of my favorite things.
Fairyfly wasps are outsized by bacteria;
male anglerfish melt into female posteriors;
plant-toilets and frogs that
My Favorite Things (Darwin Day 2024) by Concavenator, literature
Literature
My Favorite Things (Darwin Day 2024)
Slime molds and glowworms, tongue-eating crustaceans,
gall tumors, sea angels, and strap-toothed cetaceans,
parasite yew trees and old termite kings,
these are a few of my favorite things.
Cyclopes created by skewed gene expression [1],
scavengers sharing their feast in succession,
moths that paint dropping and flies on their wings,
these are a few of my favorite things.
Paradox tadpoles and immortal jellies,
pandoravirus, and whatever the hell is
the Ediacaran fauna and its lobes, frills, and rings:
these are a few of my favorite things.
When I mourn in time the poor thylacine
Or the golden toad
I remember there's mold that grows its own eyes
And that those eyes explode
Fifty thousand spiders, and one's vegetarian;
there's bees that make honey with flesh from a carrion; [2]
some fish walk on grass, the sand shark eats its twins;
these are a few of my favorite things.
Fairyfly wasps are outsized by bacteria;
male anglerfish melt into female posteriors;
plant-toilets and frogs that
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