time is slowing down

I have big boots and a tiny dog

[michaelnordeman]

Common Carder Bee/Bombus pascuorum/åkerhumla. Water Avens/Geum rivale L./humleblomster. Värmland, Sweden (3 June 2023).

[guilhernunes]

Elephant shrew having ramen

[hellwatermelon]

Nicolas Bruno, The Embellished Collection

[souperluminal]

05.29 - Blue Blade

[boobookittenartblog]

Nishiyama Hoen, Insect Procession,

detail, ink and color on silk, 1851

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[memories-of-ancients]

Griffin burgonet, Milan, Italy, circa 1540

from The Musee de l'Armee

[charnel-grounds]

“Fair Rosamund”

unidentified English pre-Raphaelite artist

oil on canvas, 19th century

[ducissatenebrarum]

Imperial Crypt a burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery in Vienna, Austria.

[toyastales]

Finnish Lady Clock from Ostrobothnia, Finland.

Made in the early 1800's.

[antiqueanimals]

Robert Hainard (1906 - 1999). Couple de Loups à l'aube. Color woodcut. September 8th, 1955.

MutualArt

[charnel-grounds]

Samuli Heimonen, “Yhteinen Historia” (Shared History)

acrylic & oil on canvas, 2009

source

[onenicebugperday]

Needle Felted Weevils by littleskrunks on Instagram littleskrunks’ website/shop See also their clown weevil!

[seasons-in-hell]

Arthur Grottger

The Forest (1864)

[oddarette]

The Sin of Saving Yourself I started this two years ago and didn't have what ever it was I needed to push it forward. Turns out a separation from my husband after 15 years is what I needed. Ha... ha ha.... (No it's not AI, just a ton of hours of work)

[clawmarks]

Kate Cameron - On the roof-top (detail) - 1912 - via Bonham's

[unfamiliarsculptures]

I little batch of ceramic frogs! These little guys are very satisfying to hold, almost like a worry stone. They will be available Friday, March 13th at 8pm Eastern time!