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Om två timmar startar metamorphosis presents with long tentacles so long and so slimy and slithering all around!
#Metamorphosis
https://dukop.dk/9772/

New preprints! 2/3
Convergent gene family expansions and births with the evolution of metamorphosis in Pancrustacea. Led by Giulia Campli and @rmwaterhouse, with Ariel Chipman #EvoDevo #MolecularEvolution #ArthropodEvolution #Metamorphosis
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.06.723392

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐸🥚 In a high-elevation #Oregon #lake, hundreds of Western toad pairs lay over a million #eggs together.

The hatching #tadpoles form massive #underwater schools that snake along the shore before growing legs and moving onto land. The #amphibians connect local food webs by transferring #energy to larger #predators.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/western-toads-lifecycle-tadpoles-oregon-lake-high-cascades-opb

#animals #babies #biology #ecology #ecosystem #forest #larvae #lifecycle #mating #metamorphosis #mountains #nature #wildlife #science #seasons #snow #spring #summer #toads #winter #womeninstem #woods #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐸🥚 In a high-elevation #Oregon #lake, hundreds of Western toad pairs lay over a million #eggs together.

The hatching #tadpoles form massive #underwater schools that snake along the shore before growing legs and moving onto land. The #amphibians connect local food webs by transferring #energy to larger #predators.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/western-toads-lifecycle-tadpoles-oregon-lake-high-cascades-opb

#animals #babies #biology #ecology #ecosystem #forest #larvae #lifecycle #mating #metamorphosis #mountains #nature #wildlife #science #seasons #snow #spring #summer #toads #winter #womeninstem #woods #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐸🥚 In a high-elevation #Oregon #lake, hundreds of Western toad pairs lay over a million #eggs together.

The hatching #tadpoles form massive #underwater schools that snake along the shore before growing legs and moving onto land. The #amphibians connect local food webs by transferring #energy to larger #predators.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/western-toads-lifecycle-tadpoles-oregon-lake-high-cascades-opb

#animals #babies #biology #ecology #ecosystem #forest #larvae #lifecycle #mating #metamorphosis #mountains #nature #wildlife #science #seasons #snow #spring #summer #toads #winter #womeninstem #woods #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🐸🥚 In a high-elevation #Oregon #lake, hundreds of Western toad pairs lay over a million #eggs together.

The hatching #tadpoles form massive #underwater schools that snake along the shore before growing legs and moving onto land. The #amphibians connect local food webs by transferring #energy to larger #predators.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/western-toads-lifecycle-tadpoles-oregon-lake-high-cascades-opb

#animals #babies #biology #ecology #ecosystem #forest #larvae #lifecycle #mating #metamorphosis #mountains #nature #wildlife #science #seasons #snow #spring #summer #toads #winter #womeninstem #woods #tksst #video

தாவரத்தின் வாழ்க்கை – கிளிமேந்த் திமிர்யாஸெவ் (The Life Of Plants – Ten popular lectures In Tamil by Kliment Timiryasev)

நெருங்கிய பதிப்பு என்பது திமிரியாசேவின் தாவரத்தின் வாழ்க்கை என்னும் தமிழில் மொழிபெயர்ப்பாகும். இந்த மொழிபெயர்ப்பு தோத்தாத்திரு மூலம் செய்யப்பட்டு, 1912 ஆம் ஆண்டு லண்டனில் வெளியிடப்பட்டது. பேராசிரியர் அ. என். பெகேதோவின் புத்தக விமர்சனம் மற்றும் இரண்டாம், மூன்றாம், நான்காம், ஐந்தாம், ஆறாம், ஏழாம், எட்டாம் மற்றும் ஒன்பதாம் ரஷிய பதிப்புகளுக்கான முன்னுரைகள் பூ. சோமசுந்தரம் மூலம் மொழிபெயர்க்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. தமிழில் மொழிபெயர்ப்பு, திமிரியாசேவின் படைப்புகளின் (மாஸ்கோ, 1938) IV தொகுதியிலுள்ள ரஷிய மொழி உரையை சரிபார்த்து, அதனுடன் தொடர்புடைய மாற்றங்கள் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டுள்ளன.

எளிதாகப் புரியக்கூடிய பத்து விரிவுரைகள்

மொழிபெயர்ப்பாளர்: தோத்தாத்திரு

பதிப்பாசிரியர்: பூ. சோமசுந்தரம்

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Under adverse conditions, #astigmatid #mites develop a special nymphal stage: the #deutonymph (shown here: #Histiostoma #sapromyzarum, living specimen). It's a #heteromorphic stage that serves the purpose of #phoretictransport and a result of a #metamorphosis into a juvenile stage lacking a mouth but possessing gonadal primordia and a rudimentary midgut.
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Further reading
P.B. Klimov et al. (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94367-2

#Photos
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"Metamorphosis" by The Rolling Stones released in June 1975.
#TheRollingStones #Metamorphosis

So if I understood this article correctly, the key conclusion is this - metamorphosis was not the condition for moving onto land?

The traditional picture was:

Tetrapods could leave water because they first evolved a tadpole-like larval stage and then metamorphosed.

The new interpretation suggested by these fossils is closer to:

Tetrapods gradually adapted to land over evolutionary time, and they probably did not need a frog-like metamorphosis to do it.

In other words, metamorphosis was probably not a prerequisite for terrestrial life. Instead, the transition from water to land appears to have been a long, gradual evolutionary process affecting the whole life cycle, rather than depending on a distinct larval stage.

Analogy of two possible scenarios:

Old model

• Young live in water.
• Undergo a major developmental transition.
• Adults become adapted to life on land.

New model

• Young and adults share the same basic body plan.
• Land adaptations accumulate gradually over millions of years (generations).

So the narrative shifts from:

Metamorphosis enabled the move onto land

to:

The move onto land happened gradually, and amphibian-style metamorphosis likely evolved later as a specialized adaptation.

https://www.404media.co/a-new-fossil-discovery-just-rewrote-150-years-of-evolutionary-theory

#Biology #Evolutionary #EvolutionaryBiology #Fossil #Discovery #Metamorphosis #Tetrapods #Science

Illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian, from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/331031ee-5a8e-48ee-b037-1dfe2ac3dda2

#metamorphosis #insects #moths #caterpillars #botanical #butterflies #flora #flowers #berries #leaves #plants #art #publicdomain

#visualart #photo #photography #fotografie #fotografia #ficciones #fictions #poesía #poetics #color #colors #figuras #figuren #figures #metamorfosis #Métamorphose #Metamorphosis #NoToWar
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2026/06/figuras-inquietantes-iv-figures.html

#visualart #photo #photography #fotografie #fotografia #ficciones #fictions #poesía #poetics #color #colors #figuras #figuren #figures #caras #faces #metamorfosis #Métamorphose #Metamorphosis #NoToWar
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2026/04/proyecto-para-el-sello-de-correos-cara.html?q=figuras

#visualart #photo #photography #fotografie #fotografia #ficciones #fictions #poesía #poetics #color #colors #figuras #figuren #figures #metamorfosis #Métamorphose #Metamorphosis #NoToWar
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2026/06/figuras-inquietantes-iii-figures.html

I think I have probably reached saturation point with my abstract 'found art' Metamorphosis series, so here are the final collections and I will move on to pastures new.
#photography #AbstractPhotography #AbstractArt #Metamorphosis

Abstract 'found art'
#photography #AbstractPhotography #AbstractArt #metamorphosis

Nazli Abbaspour (b.1975)

https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/nazli-abbaspour/

#visualart #photography #fotografie #fotografia #ficciones #fictions #poesía #poetics #color #colors #figuras #figuren #figures #metamorfosis #Métamorphose #Metamorphosis #NoToWar #NoKings
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2026/05/metamorfosis-de-una-figura-metamorphose.html

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous mercenary..."

https://piefed.social/c/grimdank/p/2096392/when-gregor-samsa-woke-up-one-morning-from-unsettling-dreams-he-found-himself-changed-i

We were trained to relate to the world through abstraction first, which is why genuine contact can feel almost shocking — the resistance of material, the limits of the body, weather changing the terms of the day, another person remaining irreducibly themselves — all the ordinary ways reality reminds you it is alive and not merely the backdrop for your intentions.

This week's reflection: https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflection-2025-05-21

#AndyGoldsworthy #LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #Metamorphosis

You can carry what's real and still keep building at the edge of what's becoming — those two things were never in conflict.

This week's reflection: https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflection-2025-05-21

#EcoGrief #Metamorphosis #LifeboatAcademy #VilayatInayatKhan

Abstract 'found art' from my Metamorphosis series
#Photography #AbstractPhotography #AbstractArt #metamorphosis

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Here's the next core concept video on Farnz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, looking at three different kinds of reactions and attitudes the minor characters exhibit towards Gregor Samsa

https://youtu.be/M7IxpUvTU6k
#Video #Kafka #Metamorphosis #Reactions #Emotion #Horror #Friendliness