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  3. nazani14 says

    Very timely. People need to understand why coral and krill are incredibly important, and how we’re killing them off.

  5. says

    We recently watched an episode of Attenborough’s The Life of Mammals and he was all like, how wonderful and successful and important and just generally the most specialest organisms on the freaking planet mammals are, and I was literally shouting at the TV “WTF? What about inverts?!! Dick you moron, freaking INSECTS ALONE have mammals beat about 1000 times over!!!!”

    Fucking phylo-centrists.

  6. GG says

    I guess that “Octopuses Wall Street” doesn’t work so well, but that “Octopi” really grates with me.

  8. says

    And so the pines and the oaks cried, “What you use our processed dead remains to make you signs and yet you still pretend that we don’t exists. Looks like the 97% of animal species are nothing more than glorified assholes!”

    And the the protists piped “Hey, down here you arrogant multi-celled bastards!”

    Then the bacteria said, “Screw you buddy, at least you got some organelles out of the deal.”

    Evil unicorns

  9. says

    And so the pines and the oaks cried, “What you use our processed dead remains to make you signs and yet you still pretend that we don’t exists. Looks like the 97% of animal species are nothing more than glorified assholes!”

    And the the protists piped “Hey, down here you arrogant multi-celled bastards!”

    Then the bacteria said, “Screw you buddy, at least you got some organelles out of the deal.”

    Holytape beat me to it. Sometime I should fish around Netflix streaming to see if they’ve got documentaries that focus on the neglected kingdoms.

    One thing I think might be interesting if it can be accomplished: Following a single bacteria for its lifetime, and maybe a few generations of offspring, depending on its life cycle.

  11. ChasCPeterson says

    We recently watched an episode of Attenborough’s The Life of Mammals and he was all like, how wonderful and successful and important and just generally the most specialest organisms on the freaking planet mammals are

    In fairness to Sir David, it was a program about, y’know, mammals.
    He sings different tunes when he’s narrating shows about, say, insects.

  14. ex machina says

    I’m sorry, but it is us chordates who make the taxonomies.
    If you spineless want phylogenetic justice, do it yourselves!

    OCCUPY TREE OF LIFE!

  16. Aaron Baker says

    I guess that “Octopuses Wall Street” doesn’t work so well, but that “Octopi” really grates with me.

    Sadly, Octopodes (3 syllables) has never caught on.

  20. Nepenthe says

    The noises I made when I saw this really upset the cat.

    I hope they make posters or T-shirts.

  21. Pickle surprise says

    @ 5

    Attenborough has done a series on terrestrial invertebrates called Life in the Undergrowth. One of my personal favourites as well, some amazing footage of all sorts of creature from velvet worms to parasitic wasps.

    Sir David is one of the few TV naturalists that shows that all life is wonderful and fascinating in its own way. He even did an entire series on plants!

  22. James says

    Sir David also has a pretty firm line on the place of God in nature:

    “I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. To which I reply and say, “Well, it’s funny that the people, when they say that this is evidence of the Almighty, always quote beautiful things. They always quote orchids and hummingbirds and butterflies and roses.” But I always have to think too of a little boy sitting on the banks of a river in west Africa who has a worm boring through his eyeball, turning him blind before he’s five years old. And I reply and say, “Well, presumably the God you speak about created the worm as well,” and now, I find that baffling to credit a merciful God with that action. And therefore it seems to me safer to show things that I know to be truth, truthful and factual, and allow people to make up their own minds about the moralities of this thing, or indeed the theology of this thing. “

  24. KG says

    And so the pines and the oaks cried, “What you use our processed dead remains to make you signs and yet you still pretend that we don’t exists. Looks like the 97% of animal species are nothing more than glorified assholes!”

    And the the protists piped “Hey, down here you arrogant multi-celled bastards!”

    Then the bacteria said, “Screw you buddy, at least you got some organelles out of the deal.” – holytape

    The mineral revolution approaches. ROCK ON!!!!

  26. The Rajah says

    Why can’t I share this page on Facebook? I get the error “Warning: This message contains blocked content. Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook users.” What the…?!

  27. Laurel Hiebert says

    Kira and I are so glad that our design spread so far and wide. It was so unexpected, but we are excited that so many people support invertebrates! If anyone is interested, we have set up a online shop for purchasing shirts and other products with this design. Here is the address: http://www.shop.minutemorning.com/invertebrates/
    Most of the proceeds will go to our marine station – the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology.
    Thanks,
    Kira and Laurel