The bangs one… I feel attacked 
It was a targeted ad to me on Pinterest. Feel seen. Although I am contemplating a full on pixie cut, rather than just bangs.
I love this.
whispers Dophins are whales.
Learn something new everyday!
I mean, they’re all cetaceans. But you can use family and Parvorder to separate whales, dolphins, and porpoises- just not always along the lines people think. But it’s actually more accurate to say whales are dolphins (some of them anyway- like killer whales- share the Parvorder of oceanic dolphins) as opposed to the reverse. Kind of an “all squares are rectangles, not all rectangles are squares” sort of deal 
This has been your daily “phylogeny is gloriously pedantic and varies based on genetic or morphological classification systems, and BJ’s first degree was mostly useless” moment 
Can this please be daily? I would enjoy this. I too love glorious phylogenetic pedantry.
Haha maybe I’ll keep up on my journal this way! Some of my favorites: sponges/And other non chordate animals, and fungi- why are kingdoms so weird? And speciation- where do you draw the line? 
Right. I’m never sure how to phrase it. The more correct distinction is having teeth vs. the baleen filter-style of eating, yes? So it’s not so much whale, dolphin or porpoise, but all these animals are cetaceans and here are two divisions based on how their bodies are constructed to be able to eat.
Also, what really is a sponge? Because that’s some creepy shit if you ask me!
I literally have conniptions about this on the regular. Had one this weekend while reading about local cave creatures – we have a lot of species that live only in one cave – and it’s just like HOW DID THEY DECIDE THIS SPIDER IS DIFFERENT FROM THE SPIDERS IN THE CAVE OVER.
It’s an animal! A non chordate (so, no spinal cord) animal. (Also no circulatory or GI system either, they’re generally just a couple in specialized cell types). They’re so cool. They’re actually like, a sister group to all other animals, so it’s like phylum porfira (sponges), then everyone else on another line. They’re pretty significant as “living fossils” for studying evolution. Plus they’re just damn nifty. And you can have sponges with bilateral symmetry, but just because of convergent evolution, not part of Bilateria.
Sponges and jellyfish are some of the coolest and weirdest animals for life cycles too. Ooh! And coral. Ocean animals man. Cool shit.
I just saw a headline on tv which said Trump says he was in the bunker for inspections.
Prime Minister announcing some stimulus package. Guy telling media pack to get off his grass. “Can everyone get off the grass, please? Come on. I just reseeded that.”