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Biodiversity is a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth. It can be used more specifically to refer to all of the species in one region or ecosystem. Biodiversity refers to every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans. Scientists have estimated that there are around 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence. However, only around 1.2 million species have been identified and described so far, most of which are insects. This means that millions of other organisms remain a complete mystery.

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The long-standing question of how animals came to have an anus may have been solved by studies of which genes are active during development in various animals

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Don't. Just don't. I know you want to, and I do, too. But it's just too easy. Don't give in. I know it isn't easy. It feels like you're being drawn inexorably into some sort of cum-spurting black hole or something. But don't make the joke. The joke is too easy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Lungs evolved from the digestive tract as it's more efficient to just have a separate organ for it, which is also the reason you can shoot oxygen up your butthole to breathe

So maybe this discovery will have some alternative usefulness

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

We've got to stop trying to figure some things out. Like, just let it go. Maybe if you figure it out on accident, keep it to yourself.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

Wow, 2 girls 1 cup was a sex education film.