han

what am i still doing here

[silkypicrew-deactivated20260725]

speechless. the pose. the expression. this should be a painting.

[c---crow]

i'm no good at painting sorry. i have excessive line work instead

[debelice]

Shark Enjoying some sea grass.......

[myballaches]

my wife

[tauforged]

why does one of these gummi worms have LEGS

[tauforged]

he’s evolving??!???!

[uumumuu]

Hnngh.. ceature

[tauforged]

MY GOD…. THE CREATURE

[without-ado]

Glass Octopus l Phoenix Islands

[seabeck]

Ivy

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

Hi! My favorite snake is the tentacled snake (Erpeton tentaculum)! Have you ever gotten to work with them? Any fun facts? I love the little psychic mustache dudes.

I've never been lucky enough to work with them, but they really are so cool! You have awesome taste in snakes.

- They're so flat! It's probably to make them look like a scrap of bark in the water.

- They can close their nostrils at will to keep water out of them.

- They're the only snakes to have tentacles, which help them sense prey moving in the water.

- The way they eat is completely unique among snakes - they "bump" at fish with a side of their body, which creates a ripple that makes the fish change direction. Then, they use those tentacles to help them guess where the fish is going to move and grab it! The "bump" is so incredibly fast that you need high-speed film to see it.

- They're the only colubrids to spend the majority of their lives in the water! Unlike elapid sea snakes, which live in the ocean, tentacled snakes live in slow-moving, stagnant bodies of water, and during the dry season, they'll just hide in the mud until the rain returns.

Just incredible, unique animals.

[jaw8jaw]

Kate MccGwire, Secrete (mixed media with magpie feathers)

[capybarafarts]

[burning-stmandard-deactivated20]

Ani, the city of a thousand and one churches

Via The Atlantic In Focus

[typhlonectes]

“Situated on the eastern border of Turkey, across the Akhurian River from Armenia, lies the empty, crumbling site of the once-great metropolis of Ani, known as “the city of a thousand and one churches.” Founded more than 1,600 years ago, Ani was situated on several trade routes, and grew to become a walled city of more than 100,000 residents by the 11th century…”

[badassdemonsword]

[worm-suggestion]

It looks funny, right? You think it looks funny.

I do too. But it lives its whole life. So you have to take it seriously eventually, right? And be respectful and shit.

I think it can digging in the ground for tubers.

[thefuzzydave]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[stupidbeecandle]

I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job.  There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept.  The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.

Even in the house it was LOUD.  Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval.  You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off.  It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks.  People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit.  It did.  Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that.  People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days

[glowingghosty]

[evandash]

Placing these one after another makes it look like he left got a lighthouse job and came back six months later to update the drive through employee

[basdos]

Bajo El Agua | Fran Suarez

[mysillycomics]

[krisiverse]

[ID: A small comic titled, “do better by bettas” by mysillycomics. On the left is a betta in a small fishbowl with a few colored rocks at the bottom, captioned, “Oh no, not epic.” On the right is a betta in a large tank, filled with plants, substrate, natural rocks, and a hide; and complete with a UV lamp, filter, bubbler, and thermometer. This one is labeled, (in all caps,) “Hell yeah! Extremely epic.” End ID]

[seabeck]

Taken with the mist

[vida-imensa]

Thomas

[srsfunny]

[alrauna]

The Moon’s Daughter by Seb McKinnon