The fleshy sarcotesta of Ginkgo biloba smells really nasty. Some biologists suggest that the stench evolved to attract scavenging dinosaurs (or ancient mammals), which dispersed the seeds. 🤷♂️ Maybe. If so, that vile smell is the aroma of Jurassic death. 💀 #dispersal#Ginkgoaceae#Botany 🌾🧪🌱
preparing to move and finding all sorts - these architect drawings of various Metropolitan Line works were fished from the LT bins at West Ken c.1988 and I’ve been carrying them from place to place ever since…
Sometimes when an old reply starts getting new likes it's a hint about a larger conversation happening on the site. Since my reply to this comic is getting pinged I gather someone made a new hole? And it feels like the old hole? I want to try it out where is the new hole?
Same. As a kid I had an invisible friend who would visit me when I stayed at my grandparents’ house: 8ft tall, arms made of striped coloured ‘plasticine’, but definitely sourced from Bleep!
