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[digitaldiscipline]

there are many unexpected hierarchies to being a marine biologist

[a-book-of-creatures]

Hmm… modern iteration of scrimshawing? Slightly more ethical.

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

"Aquakosmos - Ch. 2"

Colored inks bulge and billow around flowers in filmmaker Christopher Dormoy’s “Aquakosmos - Ch. 2”. Because ink is denser than the surrounding water, it sinks, forming mushroom-like shapes as the Rayleigh-Taylor instability takes over.  (Video and image credit: C. Dormoy) Read the full article

[peregrinethegryphon]

Comparing Superficial Traits From Opposite Ends of the Sauropsid Family Tree Through a Visual Medium to Make a Point

~OR~

Bird Are Reptiles: The Gifset

Footage Sources: (x)(x)(x)(x)(x)(x)(x)

[escuerzoresucitado]

[valtsv]

[publicdomainreview]

Before Cousteau, way before @Octonauts, explorer Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez was bringing images of the undersea world to the surface, from his artist’s sketch pad inside a glass and steel diving bell: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/underwater-landscapes-of-eugen-von-ransonnet-villez

[amnhnyc]

This Trilobite Tuesday, meet one of the rarest and strangest trilobites in the world: Probolichas kristiae! Growing up to 3.1 in (8 cm) long, this species features a long, sword-like rostrum. Scientists think this unique adaptation might have played a role in defense, courtship, or feeding. This specimen was found in Oklahoma’s Bromide Formation. While this area is arid today, it was once a sea teeming with life some 450 million years ago during the Upper Ordovician.

[publicdomainreview]

Between the blubber, blood, and cruel destruction of life, there was plenty of time for creation too on a 19th-century whale hunt. @JessicaBoyall1 explores the rich vein of illustration running through the logbooks and journals of Nantucket whalers: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-of-whaling

[mutant-distraction]

"After receiving a tip about a family of Burrowing Owls on the eastern edge of Cheyenne, a photographer rushed to the location in late June. The owlets seemed nearly ready to leave their burrows. Over the years, the photographer has perfected a method using a GoPro on a small tripod, set to take a photo every 5 seconds. They leave the camera behind, allowing the owls to feel comfortable. The challenge lies in the long wait to see if the effort pays off. This shot was taken on June 28th."

📷 Peter Arnold

[nmpositive]

The Beastie Birds

[ratbugs]

the glorious, scrunkly wunkly chonky buggies

absolutely ready for battle buggies

big buff arms buggies

behold them and be blessed

[publicdomainreview]

From 1969 to 2008 John Margolies photographed the eccentric roadside architecture and ephemera of the US. @librarycongress bought the lot, a total of 11,710 colour slides, and lifted all copyright restrictions on them. Here’s our highlights: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-margolies-photographs-of-roadside-america

[yesterdaysprint]

The Cecil Whig, Elkton, Maryland, August 20, 1870

[publicdomainreview]

Woodcuts from Lorenz Stoer’s Geometria et Perspectiva, 1567, a unique, image-based treatise on linear perspective — in each of its eleven woodcuts a complex polyhedron or combination of solids are embedded in a kind of dreamlike ruinscape: https://t.co/ABgBsSSSIJ

[fluffygif]

Anolis Aquaticus (By: Lindsey Swierk)

[rattlesnek]

Their whole skin is so hydrophobic that it is covered in a thin layer of air. They breathe that air bubble as shown, but it’s not just like holding their breath. Oxygen in the air will be replenished from the water due to the large surface area, almost like a gill. Many aquatic insects, like giant water bugs, also use oxygen diffusion similarly if they don’t have gills.

[kaijutegu]

reblog if the best idea that you could come up with was falling over and lying on the ground like a lump

[konoko]

[amnhnyc]

When the Hayden Planetarium opened in October 1935, it was only the fourth planetarium in the United States. Nearly a century later, the Museum is still bringing audiences the latest science about our cosmos. Visit the Hayden Planetarium and the Rose Center for Earth and Space to learn about the 13-billion-year history of the universe!

[kuvaton]