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[pinkhairedposts]

find your birth year and that is the percentage of your life that the U.S has been at war

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2001- 100%

[catchymemes]

Challenge accepted

[typhlonectes]

Six Newly Discovered Catfish Species Have Faces Full of Tentacles

The rainforest-flanked rivers of tropical South America hold six more species of catfish than previously thought, new research suggests. But these aren’t the wide-mouthed, whiskered catfish you may be familiar with from murky waterways throughout the U.S. interior. The new fishes look like something out of a D&D Monster Manual: sucker-mouthed, adorned in armor plating, and with defensive spines jutting out from their heads. Oh, and the males have snouts carpeted in squiggly tentacles.

These splendidly strange fish—all in the genus Ancistrus—are known as “bristlenose catfish.”

There were already dozens of species of bristlenose catfish known, some of which are commonly kept in freshwater aquaria as tank-cleaning “algae-eaters.” Most of the bristlenoses are found in South America and Panama, and in particular the Guiana Shield, a region of ancient highlands in northeastern South America that’s home to lush forests, tabletop mountains, and spectacular waterfalls. Skirting the Guiana Shield are the Orinoco and Amazon River basins, where the new catfish make their home…

Read more: EARTHER

photographs by Johnathan W. Armbruster

[catchymemes]

Welcome to Japan

Where cars are parked orderly and in reverse

Where fruits can be cubes

Where people keep left

And lamps have different brightness for double beds

People queue up in lines

Applies to stickers too

Where what you get is the same as the poster

you get waved goodbye..?

Relieving both mind and body

Yup.

Smooth train operator

No embarrassing knocking or barging into rooms to check out if they are occupied

When you need an extra hand

For the selfiestas

Brolly holders

Because normal manhole covers are too mainstream

Think diagonal

And anytime u need to soak your feet

Where you raise responsible adults, not brats

And luggage is organised in color codes

When you need help after the condom broke

Instant sanitary gratification

Why they are so welcome at football matches

Where water is that clean in the drains

Nuff said

Source: imgur.com

[montereybayaquarium]

Oh no sea didn’t! Pacific seahorses may look drab at a distance, but up close, they’ll blow your mind—or at least this hippocampus ;)

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Cherax pulcher is a species of crayfish from West Papua in Indonesia. (x x x x)

Photos 1-4: Male Photo 5: Female Photo 6: Immature Male

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Pink bugs!

1. Pink Katydid 2. Orchid Mantis 3. Pink Leaf Beetle 4. Rosy Maple Moth 5. Elephant Hawk-moth 6. Pink Grasshopper 7. Pink Shield Bug 8. Crab Spider 9. Flea Beetle 10. Brazilian Pinkbloom Tarantula

[todropscience]

NEW SPECIES ALERT: CUTE PYGMY SEAHORSE DISCOVERED IN JAPAN

An international team of marine biologists has discovered a new species seahorse in the waters off Izu Islands, southeast Japan. 

Named Japanese pygmy seahorses, or Hachijo-tatsu in japanese (Hippocampus japapigu), is diminutive in size, with 1.36-2.6 cm, long. The Japanese pygmy seahorse live in close association with octocorals, colonial hydrozoans, bryozoans, seagrass and algae. 

Japan is recognized as a global hotspot of marine biodiversity, with 53 recorded species of syngnathids,  family of fish which includes seahorses, pipefishes, and allies, this country have around ten species of seahorses of which four are true pygmy seahorses. This new species represent the fifth pygmy seahorse species to Japan.

Photo:  Japanese Pygmy Seahorse in situ, Hachijo-jima Island, Izu Islands, Japan at 15 m depth, photo by Richard Smith.

Reference: Short et al., 2018.  Hippocampus japapigu, a new species of pygmy seahorse from Japan, with a redescription of H.pontohi (Teleostei, Syngnathidae). ZooKeys

watch the new species on video

[Image description: a single japanese pygmy seahorse is attached to a fragmented gorgonian. The shape and coloration seem to be similar with its surrounding environment.]

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Succulents!

1. Spiral Aloe 2. Lithops (Living Stone) 3. Mammillaria mystax 4. Queen Victoria Agave 5. Lophophora fricii 6. Sedum Clavatum 7. Haworthia cooperi 8. Sedum treleasei 9. Morgan’s Beauty Crassula 10. Epithelantha ilariae

[cool-critters]

Spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus)

The spotted handfish is a rare Australian fish from the family Brachionichthyidae. It is classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The spotted handfish is unusual in that it has highly adapted pectoral fins, which appear like hands (hence the name) and allow it to walk on the sea floor. It has a highly restricted range, being found only in the estuary of Derwent River, Tasmania, and nearby areas. They are up to 120 mm in length. Currently, little is known regarding their diet, but they have been reported to prey on small shellfish, shrimp, and polychaete worms in the wild.

photo credits: utaot, underwater, Bruce Miller

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A popular misconception, both in the 21st century and in the 13th, is that the Mongols struggled to siege cities. This was true for the first years of conquest under Chinggis Khan, as few of his warriors had likely even seen a walled city, let alone taken one through force, at the beginning of the invasion of China. The Mongols attempted flooding cities by flooding nearby rivers, but the real breakthrough came once the Mongols acquired Chinese siege technology, sometime between 1211-1213. From capturing engineers and masons after the fall of a settlement (groups traditionally spared in massacres after a siege) to defections (defections to the Mongols were considerable even at the start of the invasion, and entire units of catapult specialists joined the Mongols on occasion), the Mongols had several means of learning the secrets to taking walled settlements. The Mongols became quite proficient at taking cities and using siege equipment and always finding new tools to use (including possibly gunpowder, but that is controversial). Thus, when the Khwarezmian Shah decided to leave his forces behind city walls, believing the Mongols unable to take cities, he unknowingly had corralled them into pens to be slaughtered. For more on the Mongol conquest of China, check out my video on the Mongol-Jin war in 1214-1216: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHKwEHv79I

[remoteregion-aqua]

オニボラ 学名：Ellochelon vaigiensis 分類：ボラ目 ボラ科

[memo（アクア・トトの解説より引用）] ”鬼” 魚類は一般的に側線鱗とよばれる穴のあいたウロコが一列あり、そこで水中の振動を感じ取ります。しかし、ボラの仲間は全身のウロコに穴が開いており、まさに全身で振動を感じ取ることができます。

アクア・トトぎふ 1F マンスリー水槽『せつぶんすいそう』（2013年2月）

[soggywarmpockets]

I just found a back stitch alphabet where tiny cats in various poses make up the letters and I don’t think I’m ever going to use another font for the rest of my life.

[orionlovescats]

Tell me more

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The curl-crested araçari is a species of toucan endemic to the Amazon River Basin notable for the modified, curled feathers on its crown.

(Photo sources: x x x x x x)

[aquariumfans]

Goed en mooi idee, als je de ruimte hebt hiervoor ;) http://ift.tt/2p6j5Vt

[vet-trek]

When Scientists Get Accidentally Artsy

A new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History lies right at the intersection of art and science, showcasing the inherent beauty of skeletons — that is, fish skeletons.

[karehastation]

THE BEST THING EVER

[gothbloc]

are you serious

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FRIENDS LOOK. HAPPY THING! @laowaiadventures @thescentofwhiteroses @plaidshirtjimkirk @ivycross @satismagic @sikinick @sir-sycophant @faith-is-seeing-while-blind

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