Tamora Pierce Stuff

[some-1one]

Beautiful Rosefinch bird in the snow

[oliverniko]

Photographer credit: Claspaoni

[vanilleflwr]

🦢

[indigo-night-wisp]

the thing i like about the tortall books is that you get wonderful things like a main character who is a 16 year old girl that is smarter than literally everyone, and the Original Dangerous Crow Boy, who kicks people so hard that their necks snap, and suggests murder as a solution to pretty much every problem. duo of all time, they deserve each other

[hornedheads]

[irish-farmer]

@bovineblogger

[megaceros]

All of the otters/ Lutrinae !

Had a lot of fun doing this one, probably because there are only 13 lol

[crocodiletrolley]

I will literally never be over what Alanna chooses to say to Jon after accusing Roger of multiple crimes in front of the entire court.

Things she COULD have said, which are all true:

He‘s trying to take over your country and exploit the people you’ve sworn to serve and care for

He’s killed many children, including Francis of Nond, who was just the nicest little guy

He probably started the war with Tusaine. And even if he didn’t, he worked hard to put us in a position to LOSE, ending untold lives

He’s tried to kill YOU at least, like, eight times that I can think of

My cat hates him, which frankly is reason enough

What Alanna, who never got to meet her own mom, chooses to say:

I had to. He was killing your mother.

[dougielombax]

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

GRAVEWHALE!

A vast whale necropolis has been found

In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of

Okay seriously this is some fascinating shit.

And I don’t know shit about fossils, marine biology or ocean research.

Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered

The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.

Fascinating stuff!

[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[ihatenearlyeverything]

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

[oatmealbrain]

And boy are they clumsy

[hydrangeafae]

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human

[polar-solstice]

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

They are just!!! Student drivers!!! 😭

[sindri42]

BONK!

[nikkiitalks]

[sgam76]

SOUND ON. This is definitely Key Horse, btw. Weenies to a man.

[francesderwent]

nothing more fun than a YA classic from the 80s that’s been republished every five years with a funky fresh cover

which covers are your favorites?

original 1983 covers

holy 80s Batman

Joyce Patti

Marilee Heyer

Yeshia Fung

holy 2000s Batman

Nekro

Yuta Onoda

kindle editions

Voting ended onJul 1

original U.S. covers (1983)

holy 80s Batman (1989)

Joyce Patti (1989)

Marilee Heyer (2002)

Yeshia Fung (2009)

holy 2000s Batman (2011)

Nekro (2014)

Yuta Onoda (2023)

Kindle edition (2024)

(editions included are American ones, you can find a lot of other ones here.) the illustrator names which are included are ones I was able to find, mostly by looking at the back covers of the books I currently have out from the library)

[unidentifiablelifeform]

[antiqueanimals]

Robert Hainard (1906 - 1999). Bialowieza. Color woodcut. March 9th, 1956.

MutualArt

[lowpolyskeletonz]

Let's stand under mama!!!

[lowpolyskeletonz]

Let stand under mama more!!!

[maxleggy]

i love that maned wolf pups also do the canine thing where they feet too big for their got damn they, but because they also have the long ass legs they end up looking way more normally proportioned than the adults. like this:

like those are regular wolf proportions

[saturnvs]

fight

[thoughtfulfangirling]

Who are you having dinner with? (Tortall)

Alanna of Trebond and Olau

Geroge Cooper

Kel

Daine

Aly

Numair Salmalin

Rebekah

Myles Olau

Onua Chamtong

Tkaa

Rosto the Piper

I haven't read the Tortall books but can't keep from hitting a button

Voting ended onJun 6

[calleido]

icelandics at armot farm by tim flach