To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit
This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.
orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!
well maybe you should blearily wake up at 5:08 in the pre-dawn light and find the sleeping soft tiny mammal body of your cat just inches from your head like a miracle too beautiful for speech, and you should rustle one hand out from your blankets to rub fingertip circles across the warm eggshell dome of her little velvet-wrapped skull and on the bristly patches just where the cups of her ears begin, and as she inclines her head into your fingers and purrs without ever opening her little eyes you should feel a love so tender that you understand how that love could have reached out from the fireside into the inky spangled nights long gone to reach her, and then you'll feel better
The enigmatic Esconichthys apopyris lived during the late Carboniferous, around 308 million years ago, in a lush tropical estuary covering what is now Illinois, USA.
Up to about 8cm long (~3"), it had a prominent pair of eyes, two pairs of elongated external gills bearing long feathery projections, a slender limbless body lined with muscle segments, and a single low fin running along the underside of its tail.
There also seem to have been two different body types that might represent separate species: the "flathead" form with wide-set eyes, and the "snubnose" form with close-set eyes.
Often nicknamed "blades", "ghosts", or "grasshoppers" by fossil collectors, specimens of this little animal are the most common vertebrates found in the Mazon Creek fossil beds — and yet we don't actually know what it is. In the past it was proposed to be a larval lungfish or amphibian, but its anatomy doesn't quite fit any known group.
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References:
Bardack, David. "A larval fish from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois." Journal of Paleontology 48.5 (1974): 988-993. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1303297
Bardack, David. "Fishes of the Mazon Creek fauna." Mazon Creek Fossils. Academic Press, 1979. 501-528. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-519650-5.50024-2
RCFossils. "Mazon Creek Best Of The Best Esconichthys Apopyris Bardack, 1974." The Fossil Forum, 03 Dec. 2019, https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/100449-mazon-creek-best-of-the-best-esconichthys-apopyris-bardack-1974/
Young, Andrew. "Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna - Tetrapods, Aistopods, and Larval Fish." Andrew Young Art, https://www.andrewyoungart.com/mc-fa---tetrapods-and-blades.html