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New Geigi in Kanazawa: Waka 和花 debuted on 3. December 2025 (Higashi Hanofuku Ochaya). Kinuyû 絹夕 debuted on 27. January 2026 (Kazuemachi Mishô Ochaya). Hikaru 光流 debuted on 22. June 2026 (Kazuemachi Nakanoya Ochaya). Haruha 春葉 is scheduled to debut today, on 19. July 2026 (Higashi Fujinoya Ochaya). All photos from mayorkanazawa on instagram.
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Hyperiid amphipods are a small but anatomically diverse group of shrimp-like crustaceans with remarkable adaptations for life in the ocean’s twilight zone.
A team of researchers from MBARI, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, GEOMAR, the University of Western Australia, and the Florida Museum of Natural History leveraged 30 years of video observations from MBARI’s robotic submersibles to study the evolution of eye complexity in hyperiid amphipods. The team recently published their findings in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 📸: Karen J. Osborn/Smithsonian Institution
Hyperiid amphipods are abundant in the midwater environment. Recognizing the true abundance of free-swimming, predatory species requires scientists to reconsider the ecological role of hyperiids in midwater communities. This innovative research underscores the value of direct observations for uncovering evolutionary and ecological processes in the largest living space on Earth. 📸: Karen J. Osborn/Smithsonian Institution
Learn more: https://www.mbari.org/news/new-research-reveals-factors-driving-the-evolution-of-remarkable-eyes-in-deep-sea-amphipods/
Gorgonavis alcyone was an enantiornithean bird that lived in what is now Spain during the early Cretaceous, about 129-126 million years ago.
Enantiornitheans were a diverse and abundant group of Mesozoic birds that retained claws on their wings and often had toothy snouts instead of beaks, and many also had ribbon-like display feathers on their tails instead of lift-generating fans. While they externally looked a lot like modern birds they weren't ancestral to any living forms — instead they represented a separate "cousin" lineage to euornitheans that convergently evolved similar features and lifestyles.
Although known only from an isolated skull, Gorgonavis would probably have been around 14cm long (~5.5") with an estimated wingspan of 30cm (~12"). It seems to have been a close relative of long-snouted enantiornitheans like Longipteryx, having similar elongated jaws with teeth only at the tips.
If it was a longipterygid it would be the oldest known member of that group and the only one currently known outside of China, suggesting that particular family was much more widespread than previously thought.
Longipterygids were traditionally interpreted as kingfisher-like birds specialized to prey on insects or fish, but two specimens from China with preserved gut contents recently demonstrated that they may actually have been frugivores feeding on the fleshy fruit-like seeds of gymnosperm plants.
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Chinese Beef Meat Pie (Xian Bing, 牛肉馅饼) Chinese meat pie has a juicy beef filling with onion, carrot and aromatics in a crispy crust. It’s like a giant dumpling.
Recipe => http://omnivorescookbook.com/chinese-beef-meat-pie/
This might be just me being romanian but this entire obsession over Lady Dimitrescu (especially back in the day when RE8 came out and everybody was talking about it) rubs me in a wrong way. Not only because her entire lore is just further "vampirification" of the romanian culture, if you will, but also because everybody is glazing over her and portray her as this Man-hating Feminist Queer Icon, when this woman was very much a monarch (thus implying that she was upholding and perpetuating the status-quo of an opressive system) AND this also implies something quite disgusting I rarely see being adressed, namely that she essentially had slaves and servants. Why am I pointing that? Because at that time most slaves were roma people, especially to noble men and the Orthodox Church. And yet people would prefer to claim her as a lesbian icon wheter this is canon or not (a category of people that is systematically opressed) while simultaneously denying the fact that she herself was an opressor or ignoring it via pointing out that it's "just fiction." Also this woman along with her daughters literally used to kidnap girls amd young women and torture her to death for their blood. She is NOT the ultra-based feminist sapphic diva that you think she is.
Mom’s Best Pork Dumplings My pork dumplings are a Chinese steamed dumpling I learned from my mom, with juicy pork, chopped fresh shrimp, and napa cabbage folded into pleated wrappers and finished in a bamboo steamer over whole cabbage leaves. These are great to serve as an appetizer or as a main dish.
Recipe: https://omnivorescookbook.com/pork-dumplings/
Tsunesono, a geiko of Gion, strikes a feminine pose characteristic of Kyomai, Kyoto’s traditional style of dance. Gion Odori. Text and image via mboogiedown-japan blog. 2006, Kyoto, Japan
June 24th, 2026: Say hello to Kyoto's newest maiko! Tanekiku (たねきく) of Hanafusa (花ふさ) in Miyagawa Cho is celebrating her misedashi! She is the first imōto of geiko Tanefumi (田ね文) of Takayoshi (高よし) and represents a new connection between Hanafusa and Takayoshi. Hanafusa currently does not have any active geiko, so instead of having Tanekiku debut without an onesan, they reached out to Takayoshi and Tanefumi graciously agreed to take on the task! Tanekiku's name also reflects this partnership with Tane- coming from Tanefumi's name and -Kiku from the names that all Hanafusa geimaiko share! Her outfit features flower baskets and all season flowers over golden waves and a golden pine feather obi ^^ おめでとうさんどすたねきくちゃん ^o^! Image is courtesy of Hanafusa Okiya.
June 15th, 2026: Kyoto's newest geiko is born! Hidesaki (秀咲季) of Masamiya (雅美家) in Pontocho is celebrating her erikae! She is the third woman from the relatively new Masamiya okiya to have her erikae and spent just shy of 5 years as a maiko, making her very experienced! She is also Pontocho's first erikae in two years, which is a welcome sight for the small district. Her outfit features pine, stream, and a peacock with a golden wave and plover obi ^^ おめでとうさんどす秀咲季さん ^o^! Image is courtesy of Geiko Ayano.
Common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
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Patches! He's such a cool guy. There is still quite strong debate regarding the underlying cause of his white patches. Many say they are purely genetic markings (ie unchanging markings he has always had), however I personally have always believed it is more like a genetic mutation that prevents recolouration of scar tissue. Normally Bottlenose dolphins' skin has very good recolouration properties. Even with more serious scratches or deeper wounds, the damaged tissue regains colour so when healed, the original wound is hardly visible. It can only be felt, and a scar line seen in close up. However there are cetacean species, like the Risso's dolphin and many beaked whales, where scratches quite explicitly do not recolour. On the contrary, the smallest blemish remains a stark, pure white. In these species the tally of scratches seems to serve a social function. I wonder if Patches carries a mutation that causes something similar to happen with him. Most of his white patches seem to have the shape of rake marks, and the others (like on his dorsal fin, around his mouth and on his melon) are places where dolphins often sustain damage either from feeding or raking/social interaction.
At the same time, I have compared photos of Patches between 2008 and 2020, and he does not seem to gain many new white patches. The only ones I could quickly find when reviewing them just now are a scratch on the right side of his dorsal fin and a white spot beneath it. It seems unlikely a bottlenose dolphin would go for years without being raked more. And indeed, on some recent photos you can see rakes on him that have clearly not turned white. A very, very interesting individual!
When we think of marine life, we usually picture colorful coral reefs or dense seaweed forests filled with fish and other critters. The ocea
When we think of marine life, we usually picture colorful coral reefs or dense seaweed forests filled with fish and other critters. The ocean that comes to mind is the one touched by sunlight. However, most of the ocean is not like that. By volume, roughly 95% of the ocean consists of the permanently dark, cold deep sea. Despite such hostile conditions though, there is life in the ocean's abyss.
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Skin-piercing blood-sucking moths V: Attacks on man by 5 Calyptra spp. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) in S and SE Asia
In a chronology of 11 cases, male adults of scarce C. bicolor, C. fasciata, C. ophideroides, C. parva and C. pseudobicolor are proved for the first time to attack man (the author) and pierce the skin to suck blood under natural conditions in the field. […]
H. Bänziger, Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 62 (3–4), 215–233 (1989)
I think it’s important context to know that Calyptra look like this
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Geisha. Kyoto, Japan. Photography by Stephane Barbery on Flickr
