A Collection of Great Dance Songs

[exotic-venom]

(Atheris squamigera) variable bush viper

[a-fucking-velociraptor]

original post [x]

[dajo42]

this is the happiest day of my life

[laloon]

[keranos-god-of-storm-crows]

Too soon

[saheeli-rais-wife]

65 million years…

[thequiveringforest]

Beautifully terrible

[renamonkalou]

Nor-Wester | Mark Watson

Lake Pukaki, Aoraki Mount Cook and the Southern Alps. Canterbury, New Zealand

[skunkbear]

So you had a bad day …

Charles Darwin read Lyell’s “Principles of Geology Volume 1” while he was travelling on the Beagle, and when he returned to England they became close friends. Darwin vents to Lyell in this letter from 1861.

As Robert Krulwich has noted, it’s nice to know geniuses had bad days like the rest of us.  And it’s nice that they had friends to text correspond with when they did.

Happy Birthday Charles! And to the rest of you - Happy Darwin Day!

[skunkbear]

Reblogging for Darwin Day!

[thequiveringforest]

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.

Charles Darwin venting to a friend via letter.

[voiceofnature]

Mushroom landart by Jill Bliss

[thequiveringforest]

First reblog in years. Cause I'm a fun guy..

[magicalnaturetour]

Kungfu Ant by Uda Dennie

[svartvitkatt-blog]

The kakapo is one of the rarest parrots in the world:

It’s flightless It’s the world’s heaviest parrot It’s possibly the oldest living bird and It has a subsonic mating boom that can travel several kilometres

[kakaphoe]

*shuffles along a branch*

[weeburdoodles]

*bounces along the floor*

[fiztheancient]

i love kakapo

[catshapedcookie]

Here is an endangered species for you to reblog and discuss current conservations efforts about, tumblr. There’s less than 150 of this species of bird left on earth, entirely. Breeding efforts are based around food that the females eat, which is kind of a weird fruit that isn’t available year-round or sometimes even annually seasonally. Scientists developed a little machine that they put nest-side to put a blanket over the eggs when the females leave to go eat at night. There weren’t any new eggs or chicks this year though - the second in a row. Here’s hoping for next spring.

You’ve seen the gif of Mark Carwardine getting his head humped by one of these birds, with Stephen Fry commenting - the last time Mark saw one of these birds it was with Douglas Adams for Last Chance to See back in 1990.

Here’s a video of Mr. Adams trying to explain this bird’s particular habits and it’s plight, if you’ve got about 10 minutes to watch him give a very nice talk about it.

and here’s a very nice quality photograph of sirocco (every single remaining kakapo has a name, that is how critical this situation is) on mark’s head ok

now u kno

[nevver]

Michelle Manley

[lizardking90]

This amazing image of a cat-eyed tree-snake locked in a deadly embrace with an endangered Morelet’s treefrog was taken by David Maitland, and won him the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year title in 2008. The snake had failed to get its jaws around the whole of the frog’s head and the duo were stuck in this tug of war for at least three hours, when Maitland gave up and went to bed. See more of his work: http://bit.ly/8bKw3L, image via Milky way scientists

[giraffeinatree]

(via 500px / “Red Bird of Paradise" by TED LEE)

[todropscience]

NEW SPECIES: WALKING SHARK DESCRIBED FROM INDONESIA

A new ‘walking’ bamboo shark, Hemiscyllium halmahera, has been discovered at Weda Resort at Halmahere, Lembeh. is the newest species of elasmobranch to be described.

reference: Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann and Christine L. Dudgeon 2013: Hemiscyllium halmahera, a new species of Bamboo Shark (Hemiscylliidae) from Indonesia

source gif: Video

[thequiveringforest]

Just when you thought land sharks were confined to your worst nightmare... Sharks start walking.. They are preparing for the imminent invasion!!!

[earth-song]

The Peacock spider or Gliding spider (Maratus volans) is a species of jumping spider.

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge noted in his original description that “it is difficult to describe adequately the great beauty of the colouring of this spider".

The red, blue and black colored males have flap-like extensions of the abdomen with white hairs that can be folded down. They are used for display during mating: the male raises his abdomen, then expands and raises the flaps so that the abdomen forms a white-fringed, circular field of color. The species, and indeed the whole genus Maratus have been compared to peacocks in this respect. The third pair of legs is also raised for display, showing a brush of black hairs and white tips. While approaching the female, the male will vibrate his abdomen while waving raised legs and tail, and dance from side to side.[1]

Both sexes reach about 5 mm in body length. Females and immatures of both sexes are brown but have colour patterns by which they can be distinguished from related species. [ read more ]

[thequiveringforest]

What? I didn't realize there were some many colour morphs in the peacock spider :/ So perdy!

[must-be-the-season-of-the-witch]

[mothernaturenetwork]

Real-life Sharknado: 5 actual instances of animal tornadoes Could a sharknado actually happen? Reports of real-life animal tornadoes are not unheard of around the globe.

[hiddenlex]

Alex Noriega

[mothernaturenetwork]

North Pole melts, forms lake at top of the world Santa flooded out? Researchers release shocking new images of a lake that has formed at the once-frozen North Pole.