somebody save me from bad TV biology
melanosuchus niger, the only extant melanosuchus species, does not live in florida
This show is set in Florida. How can you be a herpetologist in Florida and NOT know an alligator tooth on sight? Answer: you can’t and this is the worst herpetologist in Florida.
what the shit dude, the last word out of your mouth was a genus
and if you can’t get the phylum from a tooth, we are going to have a problem. (hint fucking hint: only one phylum has teeth)
HOW WOULD YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T EVEN IDENTIFY THE PHYLUM IT’S FROM
THAT’S NOT HOW BLOOD WORKS
YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT GET THAT INFORMATION FROM BLOOD
neither alligators nor caimans have color-based sexual dimorphism
also the caiman thing turned out to be a plot point, sort of- and then this happened
if that animal is a caiman, it’s an invasive species and if you were half the biologist this show pretends you are, you’d know that.
Caiman latirostris and Melanosuchus niger aren’t synonyms. They don’t even have an overlapping range. Pick an animal this isn’t and stick with it.
NO. STOP. STOP TRYING TO GIVE US SCIENCE FACTS ABOUT ALLIGATORS.
you dense motherfucker
sources: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/sfl-cgatorscience14xaug14-story.html
http://www.nature.com/nri/journal/v8/n5/full/nri2333.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080407-alligator-blood_2.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27059-germ-killing-molecules-identified-in-alligator-blood/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/acs-abm031108.php
those are fucking rubber speckled trout from the prop department, they don’t even begin to look like the fish you’re describing.
science: 0
rowdy 12-year-old: 1
checkmate atheists
ok that first episode was a train wreck, what’s the next one about?
oh fuck.
What is this horrifying show?
@biologyweeps You should see this
You’re gonna laugh hedge, I’ve seen this exact episode on TV, facepalming the entire time the ‘science’ happened. Like, it was watch-a-car-crash levels of watching this.
The series is The Glades btw.
@poorpoorpitifulme can we watch this next time im over so i can hear you rage scream the whole way through?