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#SciComm : 👄What is more fun than #reading what I write about how our genes are turned on and off? 👄 #Listening to me talk about it 😁 Podcast 👉 Paper 1 👉 Paper 2 👉 #Genomics #Science #DecodingOurDNA 🧬

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Graphic design has rules, and they work … 👀

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Newsflash: 🦇Bats can swim 🦇And are surprisingly good at it 🦇Bats are capable of swimming in stressful situations if the need arises 🦇Some species, such as those belonging to the genus Pteropus (flying foxes), have been known to brave the water to secure a meal #BatStroke

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The Power Of #Handwashing : 🧼Teacher asked several kids with various levels of hand #cleanliness to touch 5 pieces of white bread that were taken from the same loaf, at the same time 🧼Then, they put the bread in individual plastic bags to observe what would happen over 1 month

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Omicron makes its entrance … 🦠

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Dashing through the snow … 🦌

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Student = 1 Teacher = 0

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Greta Thunberg: How it started How it’s going

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WildCat: 🤖The world’s fastest quadruped robot 🤖Runs 32 km/h while maneuvering and maintaining its balance 🤖Uses a galloping gait much like a dog or horse and leans into turns in order to maintain traction and balance 🤖Powered by a methanol burning engine #Science

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Yep, twice ... This tweet did not age well ... #ImpeachmentDay

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Find the curved line … 🔁

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A Cat’s Life: 🐈As every #cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat 🐈Dogs come when they’re called, cats take a message and get back to you later 🐈I heard cat training was difficult, it’s not, mine had me trained in two days 🐈There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast

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Twitter trolling WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook … 😂 #Serverless #ServerDown

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Busted … just act normal and everything will be fine … 🐕

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Dropping A Magnet Through A Copper Tube: 📌As the magnet falls it induces a current in the copper pipe 📌That current creates a magnetic field that opposes the changing field of the falling magnet, resulting in the magnet being repelled (falling more slowly) 📌Lenz’s Law

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The abstract can be no more than 150 words … 📄

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Moose Vs Machine: 🤖Homeowner sent his robotic lawn mower to scare off an apple-thieving moose 🤖Undeterred by the arrival of a robot at its feet, the moose administers a kick as swift as it is severe 🤖If robot apocalypse ever looks imminent, we know who to call upon for help

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That Moment: 🎉When your manuscript is published 🎉No joke, this one was HARD!! 🎉Decoding our DNA 🎉Decoding the Genome 🎉Thanks @ENCODE_NIH & @NCBI GEO for the thousands of datasets #BigData #Genomics #InversionSymmetry 👉 👉

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Elephant Gives Birth: 🐘An awesome display of #celebration and #protection as a herd of elephants gather around a female and her newborn calf 🐘Elephants have the longest gestation period of all mammals, carrying their young for nearly two years before giving birth #Trumpeting

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Curling for ducks … 🦆

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Octopus Opens Jar: 🐙An octopus unscrews the lid of a jar from the inside 🐙Presses against the lid before using its suckers to rotate the lid and lift it off 🐙After removing the lid, the octopus seems perfectly happy to just sit there and mock the attempts made to confine it

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Just A Flesh Wound: 🧂Zombify a dead fish by adding #salt 🧂When a creature dies its neurons don't stop working right away 🧂Salt (sodium chloride) is enough to trigger the still-working neurons to fire, signaling the muscles to contract (until they use up their energy stores)

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Do you see it …❓

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Virology 101: Viruses cannot mutate if they don’t replicate … 🦠

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White Blood Cells Attack A Parasitic Worm: 🤺Inside your body is an army of cells ready to fight off infection 🤺Eosinophil granulocytes (white blood cells) derived from bone marrow converge on the parasite 🤺Time-lapse immune response 🤺Bar = 50 µm 👉

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Always aim to leave this world a little better than you found it ... 🐻

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When you forget the potatoes in the bag … 🥔

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Nature’s Largest #Rodent : 🚿These water-loving rodents need #water to keep their dry skin moist 🚿Found only in areas with abundant water sources 🚿 #Capybaras , also called water hogs, wallow along the water source in dense vegetation to hide from predators and keep cool #Capy

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My Job Here Is Done: 🚌Two girls wait for the school bus 🚌Gordon, the family mastiff, waits on the driveway just a few feet away 🚌After the bus shows up and the girls board, Gordon trots back home 🚌A dog is the only thing on earth that #loves you more than he loves himself

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We really needed a spliceosome in March 2020 … 🧬

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Mixing And Unmixing: 🌀Food coloring in #glycerine or #corn syrup is mixed by turning a drum, then unmixed by reversing 🌀Seems to defy thermodynamics, appears entropy has decreased 🌀The reversible mixing is possible by insuring the mixing/unmixing is done without #turbulence

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Exhibit A:

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Restoring Beauty: 🦅Beauty, an American bald eagle, was shot in the head and consequently lost the top half of her beak 🦅Beaks are essential for preening feathers and feeding 🦅Created a prosthetic beak from a nylon-based polymer using #3D printing technology #BeakProsthesis

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DNA Replication: 🧬 #Error Rate 1 error for every 100 million nucleotides that are incorporated into DNA [10^-8] 🧬 #Proofreading Repair enzymes fix 99% of these errors [10^-10] 🧬 #Total 1 error for every 10 billion nucleotides that are incorporated into DNA #Fidelity #Genomics

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Uber and Lyft Safety: 📌Before you get in the car, check that #license plate, driver #photo , driver #name all match what’s listed in the app 📌Samantha Josephson was killed after getting into car she mistook for an Uber #RIP 👉 👉

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Symptoms Of #COVID19 : 🤒Know the symptoms 🤒~90% of cases have a #fever 🤒~68% of cases have a dry #cough 🤒~19% of cases experience shortness of breath 🤒 #COVID19 rarely causes a runny nose or diarrhea 🤒Based on 55,924 laboratory-confirmed cases 👉

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#Furriest Creature On Earth: 🥗Otters are the only marine mammal that does not have a layer of blubber under its skin to keep warm 🥗Instead, it has the thickest fur of any mammal 🥗Otters have ~1 million hairs per square inch 🥗Humans have ~100,000 hairs on their entire head

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Don’t Wear That Cup: 🐙Diver convinces coconut octopus to #trade its plastic cup for a shell 🐙Coconut octopuses are famous for being picky about which shells they keep, it was offered many shells before it found one to be acceptable 🐙A shiny new shell made it happy as a clam

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Overthinking … also known as creating problems that were never there … 🐈‍⬛

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Incoming … 🙉

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This is what I come to Twitter for … 😂

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The Ribbon Eel: 🎀Misfit of the morays 🎀Protandrous hermaphrodite 🎀Born as #male but changes sex to #female later in life 🎀Changes color from #black (juvenile), to #blue with a yellow dorsal fin (adult male), to completely #yellow (adult female) #SequentialHermaphroditism

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Correlation ≠ Causation

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A Big Softie: 🐻The family who share their lives with a 300 lb bear named Stepan 🐻Family adopted Stepan when he was 3 months old 🐻Discovered by hunters in the forest, having lost his mother 🐻Today he is 25 years old 🐻Eats 25 kg of fish, vegetables, eggs per day #BearHug

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Baby Chameleon Hatches From Egg: 🥚The egg shell is soft like in most reptile species 🥚Blood flows from the chameleon to a network of blood vessels inside the egg 🥚Even before taking its first steps, its bright green skin has already started morphing into a different pattern

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Bullfrog Playing Ant Crusher: 🐸Amphibians can also get a taste of that sweet digital ant action 🐸Known for its voracious appetite, the bullfrog will eat almost anything it can swallow 🐸Showing off his gaming abilities 🐸It’s all fun and games until he beats your high score

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A Sunbathing Sea Lion: 🌞When rays from the sun strike your body, you "photosynthesize" vitamin D to allow the body to metabolize calcium 🌞Not the same process by which plants create food from sunlight, but it is a form of photosynthesis (use of light to synthesize a chemical)

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What species of hummingbird is this???

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Mission Impossible: 🐶It always seems impossible until it’s done 🐶Impossible only means that you haven’t found a solution yet 🐶In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd 🐶The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in one’s determination

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Blue-Haired Tarantula: 🕷Several tarantula species have evolved a blue hue 🕷Tiny nanostructures inside its hair are responsible for its vibrant color 🕷Produced by optical effects when light interacts with nanostructures that are about the same size as the wavelength of light

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It's My Way Or No Way: 🐕Huskies are very intelligent, but aren’t as eager to please their humans as other breeds 🐕Dead Weight - Object appears to weigh more, the center of gravity is wherever you are supporting the object (it feels heavier) 🐕To the park we go #HuskyTantrum

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Sea Lions Steal Small Vessel: 🦭Archimedes’ principle 🦭Buoyant force is equal to weight of displaced water when object is submerged in it 🦭To stay afloat, vessel needs to displace the amount of its weight before it goes under the surface 🦭Male sea lions weigh >1,000 pounds

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If 2 people died wearing life jackets, then life jackets must not work … 🦺

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Echidna: 👅1 of 5 monotreme species (egg-laying mammals) 👅Like all mammals, #monotremes have 1 bone in their lower jaw, 3 middle ear bones, produce milk to nourish their young 👅Has spines like a porcupine, a beak like a bird, a pouch like a kangaroo, lays eggs like a reptile

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What Happens In Our Mouth When We Speak: 👅Shows the movements of the mouth and pharynx during speech 👅Shows the way the lips, tongue and larynx (voice box) coordinate to form vowels and consonants 👅Footage captured using “realtime MRI” technology developed by Jens Frahm

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Baby Rhino Protects Mother: 🦏Baby rhino boldly tries to protect its mother while vets treat her dislocated toe 🦏Rhino moms are attentive and loving to their calves, who are eager to care for their mothers as well, even despite the fact that a rhino calf is born without a horn

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Golden Apple Snail: 🐌Female snails emerge from the water and lay their egg masses on vegetation above the water line 🐌Egg masses are bright pink and contain ~300 eggs 🐌Egg masses lighten in color when they are about to hatch 🐌After hatching baby snails fall into the water

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The moment you realize 2022 is pronounced “2020 too” … 😯

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A Flippered Friend: 🐧Fiordland crested penguin (tawaki) 🐧Found only in the wild southwest corner of New Zealand, #tawaki are unique among penguins because they choose to build their nests deep beneath lush rainforest 🐧A #rare sight, only ~3,000 breeding pairs left on earth

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How Organs Shift During Pregnancy: 🤰During the ~40 weeks of pregnancy, a woman’s body undergoes significant #changes 🤰As the fetus grows it occupies more space 🤰The mother is not just expanding outward, her internal organs are also put under a significant amount of pressure

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Thermoregulation In Frogs: 🐸Frogs are #ectothermic amphibians who are unable to regulate their temperatures internally 🐸The water not only cools the frog through conduction but also #rehydrates it, allowing it to use evaporative cooling to stabilize its body temp when its hot

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No imposters allowed … 🦌

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Dolphin Stampede: 🐬Porpoising is the fastest mode of travel because there is less resistance in air than water 🐬Scientists don’t know what causes dolphin stampedes 🐬They could be afraid of something or may be heading toward food 🐬The purpose likely has to do with survival

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Climbing Perch: 🐟Crossing the road 🐟Have an accessory air breathing organ (labyrinth) which allows them to tolerate low oxygen levels and short periods out of water 🐟They move over land between pools by levering themselves along using long robust spines on their gill covers

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The steaks are high … 🐄

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Kundt's Tube: 👂All sound is caused by vibrations and travels through matter as pressure waves 👂In the absence of a medium of transmission, such as in the vacuum of space, sound cannot travel 👂Sound travels as a longitudinal wave (the matter affected moves along the wave)

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Raccoon Raids Bird Feeder: 🥇A world class gymnast 🥇And mother nature only pays me chicken feed 🥇While the equipment manufacturers rake in the big bucks 🥇Remember, I can pick your locks too #Perfect10 #ExecutionScore

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All #Bark And No #Bite : 🗣If internet enemies were to ever meet in public 🗣Dogs try to #intimidate each other through a gate but back down the second it slides open 🗣As the gate slides open, the “tough” dogs make sure to stay behind it 🗣The dog equivalent of “hold me back”

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Fire Ants Form Giant Rafts To Survive Floods: 🐜Ants link together to form floating rafts (queen and larvae at the center) 🐜Their waxy bodies repel water 🐜Submerged ants rotate above the waterline so they don’t drown 🐜They’ll float like this until they hit something dry

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Puffed-Up Pufferfish: 🐡Pufferfish inflate to prevent predators from eating them 🐡They inflate by rapidly pumping water into their stomach 🐡To deflate, they let out the water 🐡Contain tetrodotoxin, a potent neurotoxin 🐡Enough toxin in 1 pufferfish to kill 30 adult humans

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Correlation ≠ Causation

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You’re so close … 💉

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Weather Channel Meme: 💨Exaggeration - To magnify beyond the limits of truth 2 Errors: 💨Lean Into The Wind - To stand in a high wind, you need to lean into the wind, that is, opposite the direction that the wind is blowing 💨Dont let 2 people stroll effortlessly past you 🤣

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Who Is Vaccinated: 💉100% of living US presidents 💉Almost 100% of US Congress 💉100% of US governors 💉100% of US military by mid-Sep 💉96% of practicing US physicians Who Is Not Vaccinated: 💉99% of people dying of COVID-19

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Red-Eyed Albino Owl: 👁Albinism results from a lack of the pigment #melanin (a chemical that infuses skin, hair, eyes with color) 👁When the eyes lack any #pigmentation , they are #translucent 👁Blood vessels that reside in the retina are now visible through the #colorless iris

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DNA Sequence Constraints Define Functionally Active Nuclear Receptor Binding Sites #genomics #duke #nih #BigData #tf

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There’s A Way To Do It Better - Find It: 💡Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower 💡Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge 💡To be a good leader, you sometimes need to go down the untraveled path #Science #Leadership #Solutions

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Eebbers, TSA’s oldest bomb-sniffing dog, retires after a decade of service … 🧸

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Alaskan Wildlife Greets Woman At The Front Door: 🚪A woman films three #foxes and a bald #eagle outside the front door of her home in Unalaska, Alaska 🚪Alaska is #wildlife central 🚪~40,000 bald eagles live in #Alaska , that’s more than half of North America’s total population

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Be defiant with principle ... 😍

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Kangaroo Rat Drop-Kicks A Rattlesnake: 🐀 #Snakes reach their prey in ~100 milliseconds 🐀The #rats are significantly faster, reacting in 38 milliseconds and jumping clear of the snake in 70 milliseconds 🐀Defensive maneuver 👉 👉

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Bombardier Beetle: 🧪Defense mechanism 🧪One gland contains hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone 🧪One gland contains catalase (decompose H2O2) and peroxidases (oxidize hydroquinone) 🧪When mixed, oxygen is produced 🧪Reacts with hydroquinone to make #benzoquinone #Exothermic

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You know … You can secretly get a COVID-19 vaccine while still pretending to be an anti-vaxxer … Just like your politicians did …

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Provide Comfort: ♥️Sometimes the best way to help someone is just to be near them ♥️Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around

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Fruit fly assassins … 🪰

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Snail Walking: 🐌Snails move by using muscular #foot to propel themselves forward 🐌Foot is located under body, used to contract and relax the muscles (creates wave-like movement that propels snail forward) 🐌Secretes slimy #mucus , helps them move smoothly and reduces friction

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Giant African Snail: 🐌Introduced to Florida in 1966 🐌Took 10 years and $1 million to eradicate 🐌Rediscovered in 2011 🐌Consumes >500 types of plants, causes structural damage to plaster and stucco structures, carries a parasitic nematode that can cause meningitis in humans

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Face Covering: 🛒 #Costco : If you don’t wear a face covering, you can’t shop here 🛒 #BoycottCostco : If you make me wear a face covering, I’m not shopping here 🛒 #Costco : Thanks, you understand what we said 🛒Despite objections, stores are doing fine since rule went into effect

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NYC Commuters Didn’t Disappoint: 🐶New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority banned dogs unless they fit in a bag 🐶Dog owners got creative 🐶Challenge accepted 🐶No person may bring an animal on or into conveyance or facility unless enclosed in container 🐶Dog in a bag

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Disappearing Act: 🐟The stargazer is a bony fish that belongs to the family Uranoscopidae 🐟Their name comes from their unusual eye positioning (sit on top of their head) 🐟They bury themselves in the sand, using their spotted camouflage to disappear among the textured bottom

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5 years

Trampolining: 🐶It’s a simple combination, a #dog and a #trampoline 🐶 #Happiness starts with a wet nose and ends with a tail 🐶A dog lives for the day, the hour, the moment 🐶The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man’s 🐶Be the person your dog thinks you are

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3 years

The data may be slightly haunted … 👻

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3 years

Well played...December 37, 2020

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5 years

Mom To The Rescue: 💞The mama bear not only rescues the cub, but also helps #teach it to rescue itself, spotting the cub as it pulls itself to safety 💞Sometimes the #strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws 💞There is nothing like the #bond between mother and child

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3 years

Why is she so mad at Costco?

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@LaurelCoons

2 years

The world trying to stop the spread of omicron … 🦠

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@LaurelCoons

2 years

Prison Break Season 8 … 🐶

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@LaurelCoons

6 years

A Dangerous Beauty: 🦋Female monarchs lay their eggs on poisonous milkweed leaves 🦋When caterpillar hatches, it eats its own egg (then switches to a diet of milkweed leaves) 🦋Milkweeds’ toxins remain permanently in monarch’s system 🦋Animals that eat the monarch become sick

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