On January 10, someone discovered a manatee with the word TRUMP etched in its back. Thankfully, they only carved out the letters by removing the algae that often grows on the slow-moving mammals. Just another example of how the 45th President of the United States inspires only the best out of people.
Here are a couple of dumbo octopus comics, for no reason other than I messed up the new one I was going to post today.
Look—another duck comic!
January 5 is National Bird Day!
What do you think life is like inside an impenetrable fortress of hairy oxen? With all those gurgling stomachs I'd imagine the air is quite "close."
Happy 2021! I'm happy to say reports from New Zealand are indicating that time is indeed moving on from 2020!
Let's close off Lifecycle Week and the year with the immortal jellyfish.
The third installment of Lifecycle Week explains the development of the green-banded broodsac.
The lifecycle of the American eel confused people for a really long time. They've got it down pat now.
As the cycle of the year comes to a close, let's celebrate it by looking back at some comics about lifecycles this week.
I think I said this to myself more than any other statement this whole year.
To all who celebrate: have a holly jolly Christmas this year!
Up here in the northern hemisphere, Old Man Winter has come and booped us on the butt!
Kelp hosts a huge amount of biodiversity within its green, leafy, oceanic forests.
🌟What activities would you multitask if you had 2 dozen arms?
Pro tip: even though they pretty much look the same, Southern Australia's saw sharks (which are true sharks) are different than the sawfishes (which are a kind of ray).
Sometimes fashion takes a certain amount of grit.
I propose everybody celebrate all the holidays this holiday season. Soak up all the joy like a joy-sucking sponge!
Well this was fun!
Central & South America's male water opossum, aka the yapok, are adapted pretty well for their aquatic habitat, eh?
A new one for #DecemBeakedWhale!
Happy December, everybody!
That poor hamster.
Have a fun, safe and joyous Thanksgiving everybody!
You knew I couldn't escape November without posting anything for #Dinovember, right?
Well if EVERYBODY wore aposematic colors then the aposematism would not be effective, eh?
Mom's ultimate sacrifice or is she just fed up?
You probably knew it was coming...
Quality or quantity?
It might be Friday the 13th of 2020 but it's also World Kindness Day.
Whew! 2020 is winding down. While nobody can guarantee a better year next year, I can offer you something to look forward to—this wall calendar!
Ah, the result of humanity creating decorative lifeforms.
“That is the president of the United States. That is the most powerful person in the world,” he added. “We see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over, but he just hasn’t accepted it and he wants to take everybody down with him, including this country.”
I apologise to many of you and I also say you're welcome to those who appreciate this joke.
Take a break from all areas of this stinky country and smell the hoatzin.
Have a safe and fun #Halloween, folks!
#HappyHalloween Everybody!
🦇1 more day left of Batweek🦇
🦇New Bat Week Comic!🦇
Hey, the last week in October is Bat Week. So I'll be posting bat comics until Halloween.
Ever spend time outside and notice an insect that looks like a bee but has wings like a fly hovering near you?
According to Wikipedia, it's Mole Day, which is a holiday celebrated among chemists on October 23, between 6:02 a.m. and 6:02 p.m., making the date 6:02 10/23 in the American style of writing dates. In chemistry, a mole is a unit that measures large quantities of small things, like a lot of fart molecules, or something. Is there a chemist that can give a better, funnier example in the comments?
Hi everybody!
October 21st is Reptile Awareness Day.
Oh happy Hagfish Day!
Today, October 17, we celebrate that nearly extinct but completely toothy elasmobranch:
Since October 16 is Dictionary Day, I've decided I'm going to illustrate a different word every year. Hopefully they'll all be as disgusting as myiasis.
Did you see the article about the baby two-headed shark that popped up as bycatch off the coast of India?
Oh we owe so much to the horseshoe crab. I remember seeing them doze their way up the Jersey Shore when I was a kid. They're harmless, they look angry, and nowadays they have a right to be.
Finally—a non-cephalopod comic!
Super Pleco Suckerfish to the rescue! At least in my imagination.
Imagine the good people could be doing in the world if they could just find something worthwhile to do with themselves.
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What's you're favorite donut?
Is it possible to enjoy a donut without coffee?
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In order to mate, 97% of birds perform what's called the "cloacal kiss." That's because 97% of male birds have no penis!
Ducks, however, like the Ruddy duck in this comic, mate in the water so they need to have some penetration. A kiss won't cut the mustard—so they evolved a big corkscrew penis to work its way through their mate's twisty, cavernous vagina!
The reason I picked Mr Ruddy Duck for the comic is because it's in a group called the lake ducks, which have the biggest penises of the birds.
With all the insanity in the world, it might still feel like 2020—but it's not! It's 2021, so get an @underdonecomics Wall Calendar and follow along!
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Here's the toughest bird around (at least in North America)—the harlequin duck. They may look pretty, but a lifetime of crashing coastal waves or tumbling rapids (not slow-pids) wreak havoc on their little duck bodies.
For comparison's sake, I broke a tiny bone in the knuckle of my little finger and had a cast around 2 fingers and my wrist! How would the harlequin duck feel about that?
Have you ever broken any bones? What did you fracture?
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⛽️ so can you tell which muskox is the guilty one?
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What better way to escort 2020 out than with a poop-eating dung beetle, eh? These extremely important insects help clear the ground of animal crap all over the world. My favorite ones are the biggies that roll elephant 💩 into balls and lay an egg inside. The larva hatches and eats its way until it's ready to pupate and become an adult.
Spread the love by sharing this comic (and all my other ones) in any giphy or tenor keyboard!
Follow @underdonecomics to see what happens next year!
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As we shed the filth of 2020 and welcome in the new year, please don't forget to celebrate safely!
Who has a New Year's Resolution to share in the comments? Mine is to get into making more animation. How's that sound? That and drinking more gin. Cheers!
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I'll never forget watching some David Attenborough documentary where he narrates the lives of these weird worms. It actually inspired me to write a book about parasites. It's sold to schools for kids who read at a 4th grade level. Good luck finding it!
You can read a more extensive description of this story (and one that's easier to find) in an article I wrote a couple years back on Medium. You can find the link in my story highlight under "articles" — enjoy!
As the lifecycle of the year comes to an end, are you prepared with a fresh, new calendar? No? Well then, check out the @UnderdoneComics 2021 Wall Calendar!
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This is the second installment of the year end special all about lifecycles.
Mark your calendar! The year is ending! It's time for new stuff, like the @underdonecomics 2021 Wall Calendar!
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Here's one of my earliest and most fun: the flatfish lifecycle. Look at that eye go on a journey across that fishy face!
What was your favorite show during your awkward teen years? I'd have to go with The Kids in the Hall🇨🇦
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What's your favorite quote of 2020?
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I’ve got to admit, I’ve been listening to Xmas music pretty much nonstop this season. It may come as a shock to many of you, but I’ve been enjoying the joy in the joyous tunes. My favorite? Hands down, now and forever: “Frosty the Snowman” ☃️
What’s yours?
Note on the comic: chanterelles are very delicious and popular mushrooms. Jack o’lantern shrooms, on the other hand, while they do glow in the dark, are poisonous and are often mistaken for chanterelles. So hopefully Hermy could whip up something good with them and not worry about how much of jerk Rudolf was being!
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I hope you enjoy this collection of polar critters!
Here in Seattle, our solstice is dampening us with heavy rains. What’s the weather like where you are?
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Sea urchins like to eat the holdfasts of kelp, which is the part that connects the root to rocks or other things on the seafloor.
But what if nobody's around to eat the urchins? Then, of course, the urchins eat all the kelp. The result is the biodiversity of an area goes down the toilet 🚽
Yesterday, you probably met the sunflower seastar, which are one of the animals that dine on urchins—but there aren't many of those left. They're dying out from a wasting disease which is most likely caused by warming ocean temperatures, which of course, is most likely caused by us human people.
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Thanks again to @themarinedetective for her oceanic knowledge!
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The IUCN recently named the sunflower seastar critically endangered. It's crazy to think about how fast their wasting disease has destroyed their population. Since 2013, their numbers have decreased by 99%! This is due to the seastar wasting disease—most likely caused from increasing water temperature due to climate change. The massive drop in population has left other animal populations, like sea urchins, unchecked. This creates big problems for kelp forests, which we'll look at tomorrow. Stay tuned!
🥽Special thanks to @themarinedetective for help on this one. I mean, she practically lives in the sunflower star's home! Give her a follow as she adventures in the deep, dark ocean off Vancouver Island.
Have you gotten your @UnderdoneComics wall calendar yet? Every month you'll get to know a new Endangered Species before it goes extinct (let's hope)!
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Evolutionarily speaking, it seems like nature really likes chainsaws. But don't say that to the trees!
🌳Speaking of trees—write a comment with where you're from and I'll make up an Ent name for you. Mine's "Lichenroot"🌲
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Given your current mood, and if there was snow on the ground, what message would you tell the world?
I have a message for you:
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What would you call ths styraosaurus menorah? Styracomenorasaurus?
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Kudos to faithful @underdonecomics Instagram readers for all their creative ideas with this scene. I'll tag each creator's name in a comment—the most likes will get a shirt with this design on it!
And by the way, if you like this comic, you can get it on a tshirt, face covering, or just about anything else you can imagine in my shop.
And speaking of shopping—be sure to pick up your 2021 @underdoneccomics calendar so you can be prepared for next year. I mean, how else would you know when New Year's Day is?
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It's like they've got built-in Speedos!
Female yapoks are well equipped too—they tighten up their pouches and transport their babies underwater like a submarine minivan🏊♀️
Thanks to Jason Bittell (twitter/@bittlemethis) for introducing this great critter. He's got delicious content for folks like me who want to learn about the natural world. Give him a follow!
Did you know that the recently extinct thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) is the only other marsupial known to have a pouch for males? What do you think it was there for? They definitely weren't swimmers. Any ideas??
Don't forget—spend 2021 with the @underdonecomics endangered species wall calendar! Each month has a fun fact filled comic!
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Cuvier's beaked whales are the most common of all beaked whales, and they're found to be the most beached of the beakers as well.
They're also the world champs for deep diving: 2,992 m 9,816 feet) below the ocean surface, and for the longest dive (222 minutes)!
As you can see in the comic, I think they just get comfy near the warm volcanic vents the same way we stand in our showers not wanting to leave because it feels so damn good. I remember being a kid and staying in the shower until the hot water ran out. Then quick, out the door—nearly miss the bus!
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Remember last year when I tried to make #DecemBeakedWhale a thing? I don't think it ever became a thing, but, as you'll see on the last slide, I did made a cool design with orcas on it.
They're not beaked whales, but I like their style.
It's a reminder to all that those truck-sized highly-intelligent mammals need to be free in the ocean and not circling madly in a chlorinated bathtub.
🐋What's your favorite whale?
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I think it's a amazing to think about the fact that they shove so much food in their cheeks and then empty it all out about 4" away from their food bowl, buried under the sawdust.
Apparently in the wild, hamsters store food in their cheeks because they need to eat every 2 hours, but only come out to forage at night, thus keeping lots of food for daytime snacking.
How great would it be to fill up your cheek pouches to maximum capacity and then binge Schitts Creek or something?
What're your favorite couch potato snacks/shows? Is it Nailed It and pinolì (pine nuts)?
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I'm thankful I get to share all these weirdo ideas to such a kind audience who's willing to put up with me!
🍷what flavor do you think the dinos' wine tastes like?
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There will be a new one for Thanksgiving tomorrow! And do you all want to see more old dinosaur comics too?
What's your favorite prehistoric creature?
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In total contrast to camouflage, these bright patterns help the animals survive. So there are some species that copy the dangerous ones, like the monarch (poisonous) and the viceroy (not poisonous) butterflies. There's also the yellow and black stripey bees (⚠️) and hoverflies (🙂) that I made a comic about a few weeks back.
Or was it months? Does time make sense anymore?
I know a lot of you reading this are scientists—i want to know what you do and where you're from. I'll be waiting down in the comments.
Now let's talk about time—this frightening year is almost done, so why not get a new calendar? I just made one! You should get it and flip through all the months with a different endangered species.
And while you're shopping, visit my merch store at Threadless to see what's new.
Go to the link in my bio—it's easy!
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Stegodyphus lineatus, aka the desert spider, that lives in Europe and Central Asia, vomits highly nutritious food for her babies until she can't anymore. Then they eat her.
Talk about home cookin'!
What's a favorite food that your family prepared for you while you were growing up? I hope it wasn't puke! Let me know where you're from and what you've liked in the comments.
Speaking of growing up, why not grow another year older while flipping the pages of the 2021 @underdonecomics Calendar? Or get some merch! Links in bio.
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Here's a comic representing the "K" portion of the r/K selection theory. This is when parents invest lots of time into their offsprings' development. The theory states that the energy spent on rearing young comes from the fact that the likelihood of reaching adulthood is high. Common species are humans, bears, whales and eagles.
Because they're worth it.
What kind of pets do you have? Are you a r or K-type pet owner?
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That’s the r-K theory of selection—some organisms have a lot of offspring because their life sucks and they don’t live very long—so they have a huge quantity of kids (that’s the r-selection theory).
Common creatures that are r-selectors include rabbits, crabs, mice and bacteria.
K-theory creatures include whales, Eagles, elephants and humans—we invest a lot of time and energy into our kids.
What do you think the K-strategist book should be called?
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🗣💫Pay this post forward by tagging someone and saying something kind about them. I'll start in the comments.
Hopefully 2021 will be more kind to us all and we can be more kind to each other!
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Spend some time with endangered animals as the months flap by. It's now available from MagCloud!
A portion of the profits will go to the @zsledgeofexistence program, which gives a shred of hope to some really weird and highly endangered critters.
Order now and you'll probably get it in time for the holidays (but remember, it's still 2020)!
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The hearty goldfish, which is a kind of carp, has been bred for aquariums for more than 1000 years.
Here's a challenge: come up with at least 1 funny pet name for 3 of the goldfish featured in the comic and tag 3 friends.
I'll randomly select a participant as the winner and send them a neck gaiter with a bunch of these cartoon fishes swimming around it (check it out on threadless, you'll love it. Link in bio.)
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—Anderson Cooper
Even though it's an amazing quote, and theOatmeal guy drew a beautiful comic about it, I can't help but feel bad for the turtles.
So I'm reposting this, for the sake of the turtles.
#flushtheturdonnovemberthird #trump
It's been swirling around in my brain for months like a grain of sand that grew into a grotesque pearl.
Do you eat salad before or after your main course? I mean it makes sense to eat it after since it pushes the food through, right?
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What a perfect bird with which to start off November. Meet hoatzin, the bird that smells like manure.
If you get a chance and can wade though all the political slop, look up pictures of hoatzin chicks. They have dinosaur claws!
So if you're ever in South America and let one rip, you know what to blame it on!
Tell me where you're from and what's your favorite bird. I need a destraction. Bigly!
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What's your favorite Halloween candy?
You can find lots more animated comics on my giphy page or in any gif keyboard!
You can find lots more animated comics on my giphy page or in any gif keyboard!
Even though they get such a bad rap, bats are crucial parts of just about every ecosystem.
Sadly, many of them need our help. See how you can return the many favors our flappy friends give by visiting accounts like @merlintuttlephoto and @batconservationinternational
By the way, have you ever tried or smelled durian? I hear it's quite pungent. So much so that the Singapore subways banned them!
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It's commonly known that insects and flowers have evolved together to maximize pollination—but I just found out that lots of plants have evolved crazy ways to attract bats.
Apparently the vine in this comic grows fairly spread out throughout the forests of Cuba.
Bats have much bigger pollination ranges than insects—so a bat is the perfect pollinator for these widespread vines.
Scientists tested the echo of specialized leaves that sit above the flowers (which sit above the sweet nectar bucket). It turns out that bats learned to recognize the vines with the satellite dish-like leaf is a beacon of great flavor. The pollen gets all over the fuzzy bat sides and off it goes to find more vines.
Can you give me an example of your favorite co-evolution? I love these stories.
By the way, in the cartoon there's a Leach's single leaf bat, also known as Greater Antillean long-tongued (long-named) bat feeding off the Marcgravia evenia vine.
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Like this one from last year:
Pallid bats are biggish for bats and range from Western Canada to Central Mexico.
To find food, they use their giant ears to listen for critters creeping on the ground.
Sadly, noise pollution is hurting their ability to hunt.
Do you have any odd bat facts to share? Please do so in the comments!
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Wellsir, that's a hoverfly. And my favorite kind is the drone fly—because, as you can see from the comic—it has an amazing lifecycle.
Before they become bee-lookalikes, their larval stage resembles a deep sea diver. They breathe through a tube that comes out of their butt and they laze around eating plant particles.
How crazy is that?
Rattail maggots live in stagnant water. They're so tough, they even survive accidental myiasis—the rattail maggots don't MEAN to be injested by humans, but sometimes things happen 🤷♂️.
As adults they're very territorial and excellent pollinators. So you can keep them around your garden, just don't drink their babies.
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Since my mind only works in comic-form, I've decided to post some mile cartons for you to enjoy. So enjoy!
The first one is about the European common mole, which has uncommon venomous saliva. And comic 2 is about the star-nosed mole and it's crazy-sensitive feelers sticking out of its nose!
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My shop at Threadless put up a competition for best illustration with the theme of "snowglobe."
Naturally, I made an image that fits the @underdonecomics style.
It would be great if you visited this link and ranked it (high, hopefully).
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I'll also put it in my story so you can swipe up!
Thank you all!
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Could this comic be an early example of reptile awareness?
After looking back at my comics to repost one about reptiles, I noticed that I'm lacking in that category. I do a lot of sea turtles, some crocs, but that's about it. Do you have any weird facts or interesting reptiles you'd like me to cover? Who knows? Maybe I'll make a comic for you.
And by the way, of you have any herp-pets I'd be happy to make a groovy portrait—DM me about it!
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What's not to love?
They have a super ability to secrete slime out of pours in their bodies and fill up buckets and buckets in seconds! (Hence the Slimer costume).
They can twist their bodies into knots in order to get leverage, while biting off a hunk of scavenged flesh!
There's so much more.
Here's my annual hagfish story:
In 2017, they filled Highway 101 in Oregon up with slime. Imagine, you're driving along one of the most beautiful roads in the world, a truck turns over and suddenly your car is covered in these wriggly suckers!
I was actually stuck in that traffic (but a mile or two north of where it happened).
Later that day, I was at the @oregoncoastaquarium staring down a small tank filled with a few of the slime eels—hagfish and me were meant to be, I guess.
Due to overfishing in Asia, certain haggies are considered endangered. people have to get their delicious sticky monsters from Oregon.
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It's International Sawfish Day!
I picked the green, or longcomb sawfish, because, according to ZSL's Edge of Existence Program, it seems to have the least amount of conservation support for it.
If you're interested in finding out what kind of efforts are being made to save this critically endangered fish, I suggest visiting @zsledgeofexistence —where you can see fascinating lists of all kinds of creatures and what we're doing to erradicate them from the face of the earth (and who's trying to stop it from happening).
Are there any other animals you'd like to see me do a "Get to Know ____ before it Goes Extinct" about? Let me know in the comments.
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Enjoy the vocab words from comics of the past!
Ten points to somebody who can use each word in a cohesive, meaningful paragraph.
20 points to someone who can use them all in 1 intelligible sentence!
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Well it happened and the first time I made a comic about 2-headed sharks was way back in 2016. Here's the old write-up:
Two-headed sharks are popping up every once in a while in labs and by fishermen. Nobody knows why they have this genetic anomaly—is it due to overfishing which creates a low gene pool? Toxic chemicals in the water? One thing is for sure, though, unlike these two makos, they are never found surviving outside the embryonic stage. How would they make up their minds?
Now let me ask you—would you want any extra body parts? An extra ear on your backside to hear your farts better, maybe?
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They've been scooting along the sand for no less than 440 MILLION YEARS (that's a while, like pre-dinosaur, pre-permian extinction) and now they're endangered.
BUT—they're endangered for a good reason! Their blue, copper-based blood has some chemicals in it that forms oozy walls around bacteria. So in 1970, scientists used it to form LAL, which is a substance that detects bacterial infections around medicines in labs. Before that, people who tested drugs had to inject lab bunnies with their pharmaceuticals to see if anything was contaminated.
Now people harvest about 600,000 horseshoe crabs a year, tap their blood and return them to the sea—some of which actually survive the process!
Because of their sacrificial blood, the IUCN has put these ancient creatures on their list of vulnerable species.
❓⏰What other articles do you think are in the Coastal Times? Let me know in the comments! (I'll go first).
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Some points of interest about the spotted salamander:
🟡 they have been known to live for more than 30 years!
🟡 when the atmosphere is right (good weather for them) the salamanders migrate to the vernal pool in which they were born and mate—sometimes hundreds of thousands can be seen at the same time.
🟡 their eggs can have a symbiotic relationship with the green alga Oophila amblystomatis. Since the salamander eggs are coated with a thick jelly, they can't breathe, so the algae farts out oxygen for the eggs while they're developing into tadpoles!
What's your favorite amphibian?
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Video games are a gas for excitement for Production X. Ever since video games encompass a huge number of digital resources, there are particular games that require particular software or a device to operate.Nintendo, Play Boy, Xbox, as well as PlayStation are a few examples of apparatus and prerequisites that people must possess to play matches. However, one must admit, no one is actually capable of buying all these devices.
Taking these constraints in mind, this guide will explain how to play GameBoy Advance games on the PC.
What’s GBA?
It is a product belonging to the Game Boy family line, and most of us would remember it as the purple coloured console used to play a number of 32-bit video games as a kid. With the progress of video game consoles and the wide range of games offered in the current market, GBA was discontinued in 2010, since Nintendo has started manufacturing more advanced products.
How to Play GBA Games on PC? An emulator is a software or a hardware, which is installed into a computer to act in a special way.
Within PCs, an emulator makes the computer act like a different computer or device. By downloading GBA emulator on the PC, while playing with the game, the computer will act as though it is a GameBoy Advance and thus, will encourage GBA games or ROMs.
Many emulators are available which can be downloaded in the PC to play GBA games. An individual can find Game Boy Advance emulators on site.
Make certain to confirm the kind or type of applications before downloading, depending on the hardware and software ability of your PC. Click the Download button and the emulator will start downloading. Once the emulator was downloaded, click Run to start the setup installation. Following the emulator was installed, activate the software. The application of the emulator may also be observed on the background of their PC. To start any GBA game, one wants to click on the emulator software to trigger it.
Step 2 — Download GBA ROMs
ROMs are used to store data within a computer device. GBA ROMs are essentially like a software bundle of the entire game which can be played on almost any PC, given that a GBA Emulator is currently downloaded within the computer.
One can simply find GameBoy Advance ROMs on Website. It’s a website where ROMs could be downloaded of several consoles over the PC in order that games of those particular consoles could be performed directly on the computer. Since GBA games are widely in demand even now, the ROM can be easily downloaded from the mentioned web site.
ROMs can even be found on Website along with a lot of other matches of GBA. It’s one of the most well-known and trusted website for downloading the ROMs and GBA games. In addition to GBA games, an individual can also find a variety of games, which initially belong to other consoles. The games and ROM can be downloaded free of charge, with no risk of virus or malware.
Downloading GBA ROMs
- Visit Roms-Download and then Choose the game from a huge variety of catalogues inside the website.
- While selecting the match, be sure to check the score as well as the amount of downloads of the particular game. This gives an idea about the authentication and even prevalence of the game.
- Choose the game and then click on the Download button.
- The ROM will start downloading, and once it’s done, click Run to install the game on your PC.
- When the game was downloaded, first click the emulator to trigger the software and then open the game.
Conclusion
Roms-Download Includes a group of all of the emulators on consoles, and one would also be surprised to take a look at the huge variety of games that can be found on the https://roms-download.com/roms/gameboy-advance. Just a few easy and simple steps and you can get into the world of the ideal video games on the PC itself.
