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Network Pipefish (Corythoichthys flavofasciatus)

The network pipefish has a wide distribution across the world’s tropical reefs. During courtship, the male and female “dance” around one another above the substrate. The female lays her eggs in a sheet, which she then presses against the underside of the male. The male will then grow skin over the eggs to form a brood pouch.

Klaus Stiefel on Flickr, Wikipedia

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Reed Cormorant__Microcarbo africanus; is a small comorant, it breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, and Madagascar. This species can dive to considerable depths, and takes a wide variety of fish. It prefers small slow moving fish such as mormyrids, catfish, and cichlids.

Photo by Andries Pretorius.

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yardovich

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SHIO KUSAKA (dinosaur 22), 2014 Stoneware 22 ¼ x 12 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches (56.5 x 31.1 x 31.1 cm)

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Flame-faced Tanager by Juan Carlos Vindas

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An X-ray image of the Cassiopeia-A supernova rendered in needlepoint by astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. (She was the first to work out that stars are predominantly made of hydrogen, a pivotal finding at odds with expert opinion in the 1920s, when she published the work in a doctoral dissertation.)

She crafted the needlepoint in 1975. It being the 70s, her friend and colleague John R. Whitman had to use a giant mainframe computer at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Short-Lived Phenomena to output the schematic.

via True Anomolies

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