the crew goes out into the forest just to film random b-roll shit and the director accidentally finds the like..rarest worm on earth so they run back to their house like COYOTE LOOK and then there is a very heartfelt and sincere response to weird worm including an entire mounted piece of wall art apparently
If various minerals really did “absorb negative energies” or whatever then you’d expect geologists to be just like the calmest most focused people ever. and yet,
a random blank square in my new planner lead to THE 2019 CRAB OF POSITIVITY
THE 2019 CRAB OF POSITIVITY BELIEVES IN YOU AND LOVES YOU!
I found a tardigrade! It’s pretty cool to think that an organism capable of surviving a vacuum, high pressures, and extreme temperatures lives in the moss around my neighborhood.
A microscopic spectacle: these diatoms (Bacillaria paxillifer) slide parallel to each other in large colonies. I can only speculate as to why, but I imagine it is a method to access sunlight for photosynthesis while also providing a quick route to safety. 250x magnification, 4x speed.
1912 Fossil Christmas card on a 🔬slide
Have you sent out all your Christmas cards?
How stunning is this festive fossil Christmas card on a 🔬slide? Museum Scientist Edward Heron-Allen gave this to his colleague Arthur Earland in 1912
(via Twitter: Digitising the NHM)
I introduce you to the reticulated siren: a new salamander species discovered in the Alabama/Florida area.
Look at him.
LOOK AT THOSE GILLS
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“[Figure 3. How to kill a Tyrannosaurus rex.]
Farlow et al. (1995)
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