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sadly this is not a blog about rodents but does sometimes feature them

[theancientwayoflife]

Gold armband (one of a pair). Greek work. Gold. Ca. 200 BCE. New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[nevver]

Fuco Ueda

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[greek-museums]

The way the statue was discovered in 1959 in Piraeus, photo from the archive of the Archaeological society at Athens showing a smaller Artemis bronze statue hugging the bigger Athena statue.

[onenicebugperday]

Green-veined satin geometer moth, Doratoptera nicevillei, Geometridae

Found sporadically throughout mainland Asia

Photos by benoit_segerer

[oldjewelryfeed]

EDWARDIAN MOONSTONE AND PEARL PENDANT

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Gnathophausia ingens

…sometimes known as the “giant red mysid” G. ingens is a species of lophogastrid crustacean that boasts a pan-tropical distribution. G. ingens is usually found mid-water and feeds on other (smaller) crustaceans. If threatened G. ingens is capable of releasing a bioluminescent fluid which will distract the potential predator giving G. ingens a few seconds to get away.

Classification

Animalia-Arthropoda-Crustacea-Malacostraca-Lophogastrida-Gnathophausiidae-Gnathophausia-G. ingens

Images: monterey bay aquarium and Katie Olds

[oldjewelryfeed]

Renaissance Revival Carved Opal Cameo Pendant

[rodentia]

It's my 16 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

LMAO

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you’re a sick fuck

[huariqueje]

Talking on Ash - Jake Fischer , 2014.

American, b. 1985  -

Oil on wood panel , 12 x 16 in .

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Barn owls in the Peak District, UK. Barn owl breeding season has lasted longer than usual this year thanks to the bad weather

Photograph: Darren Cook/SWNS

[memories-of-ancients]

Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

[eirene]

The Bouquet of Violets Lucius Rossi

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from The Ship of Ishtar by Virgil Finlay (1949)

[amnhnyc]

Lots of species will go all out to land a mate, but few courtship routines are as elaborate as that of the Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)! Males craft elaborate nest-like structures, known as bowers, to attract a mate. Male bowerbirds build with sticks, then festoon the front terraces of their bowers with shiny or colored objects, often vivid blue. Ornaments range from natural treasures like fresh flowers, feathers, and cicada wings to bits of plastic like caps from ballpoint pens! Some satin bowerbirds mix plant material with saliva and spread this “paint” on bower walls. If a female admires a bower, she enters it and watches the male dance with a favorite trinket in his bill.

Photo: Linda Cross, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[ancientcharm]

Roman mosaic, 2nd century AD, depicting a choir of children singing sacred songs, from the Temple of Diana Tifatina, now Basilica of Sant'Angelo in Formis, Capua. Italy.

Museo Provinciale Campano di Capua.