my favorite undersea creatures are in the news again

[rivendellrose]

"...Octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (but not their dumber relatives, the nautiluses) edit their RNA, changing the message that gets read out to make proteins."

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[gaslightgallows]

I WELCOME OUR SELF-EDITING CEPHALOPOD OVERLORDS ♥♥♥

[rivendellrose]

Fear me, for I have made a herky-jerky animated icon out of a gif.

(I had to cut a number of frames to make it fall under their size limits. Siiiiigh.)

[gaslightgallows]

Huzzah! It looks like Shran needs to lay off the Andorian Ale for a while. ;)

[rivendellrose]

Yeah, I'm not sure if I'll keep it, or if I maybe can size the animated part down and give it a frame or something, but... it was nice to figure out how to do it, at least.

[gaslightgallows]

It's a good skill to have!

[rivendellrose]

There - it's still a bit jerky, but I realized I could slow it down without increasing the file size, so that's something.

[gaslightgallows]

It looks much better!

[rivendellrose]

Thanks!

Oooo, yours is so pretty! ♥ I might have to play with more screencaps and see if I can come up with something as nice as that. ♥

[gaslightgallows]

He has a good face. ♥ As usual, though, I can't take credit for his face OR the icon. ;)

[rivendellrose]

I must try harder with my screencaps of him. I am no genius when it comes to icons, but I should at least be able to get something decent if I work at it!