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Posts are most likely to be art related, things I find funny, or about science, but I promise nothing.

[jeannettearroyo]

[herowyn]

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[closetocanada]

Happy Moon Landing Day! ❤️👩‍🚀🌛

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[wilwheaton]

[herpsandbirds]

Oaxacan Patchnose Snake (Salvadora intermedia), family Colubridae, Oaxaca, Mexico

photograph by Halla Draco Sebastian

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Tomates provençales…

[blumineck]

I have done some weird trickshots, and some difficult trickshots, but that last one is the most of both I’ve ever put together!

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[homunculus-argument]

Day 202/365 of listing something good I saw today:

A small kid at the gocery store was clearly sick of being in the stroller and also Fucking Done with being in the grocery store, and was about to throw a fit at the cashier line before spotting me. One of the small perks of having multiple facial piercings and wearing a funky hat is that every once in a while small children will stop whatever they were doing and stare at you like the man-made horror beyond their comprehension that you righteously are.

So taking the opportunity to turn the situation around, I smiled to the kid, who smiled back, and started waving to me, so I had to wave back. The parents, not saying a word, just smiled as well, evidently also glad that this situation turned into "kid saw a funny-looking stranger and is quietly having fun" kind, instead of the "kid is shrieking because fuck being in the grocery store, ensuing that everyone is having a bad time" kind of situation.

Sometimes all you gotta do is to be a friendly freak in the grocery store.

[herpsandbirds]

Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush (Monticola rufiventris), EAT A TASTY BUG!!!, family Muscicapidae, order Passeriformes, India

Photograph by Avijit Sett

[sirfrogsworth]

Morning Dove vs Grackle

Choose your fighter.

I am booking them to do battle on the White House lawn.

[thefrogman]

My photos make it look like these birds are in the midst of battle.

In reality, they charge at each other, flap their wings, and then one of them flies away. Lasts about 2 seconds per encounter. But when you use burst mode, you can freeze a moment within that 2 second battle and get some pretty neat results.

That grackle with the blue and purple iridescent head has eluded me so far. This is my first photo of him. Hopefully I can get him in focus next time.

[asparklethatisblue]

First art class in history

There are some cave paintings that look as if someone held a child's hands to guide them in applying paint to stone

[herpsandbirds]

Longtime Nautilus contributor and the "Indiana Jones of marine biology," Peter Ward has spent decades studying the ancient cephalopod that gave our magazine its name. On an expedition to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Ward and his colleagues sampled two nautiluses long regarded as separate species. Despite striking differences in their shells and anatomy, DNA analysis revealed no genetic difference between them. The discovery became the starting point for Ward's exploration of epigenetics—the study of how environmental influences can alter the way genes are expressed without changing the underlying DNA sequence. In this essay, Ward argues that epigenetics may help explain why some organisms that appear to be distinct species are actually one and the same—and why Earth may contain fewer species than scientists have traditionally believed.

Read here: https://nautil.us/why-the-earth-has-fewer-species-than-we-think-237177

[herpsandbirds]

Spectacled Owls (Pulsatrix perspicillata), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Costa Rica

photograph by Adi Ringer

[charl0ttan]

i have personal beef with everybody who has ever taken umbrage with something

[boxocroco]

This vexes me

[ramalamacreatures]

Have you ever made a coelacanth? Your squids and cuttlefish are super cute. Sea hares and anemones would be fun to see too.

Thank you so much! Yes, I made a Coelacanth not too long ago. Here it is! I think a sea hare will be next soon, and maybe anemones too (⊙‿⊙✿)

[maplewoof]

blood bay for @camelidae 's junicorn 2026 prompt list

better late than never