Treehole antlion, Cymothales sp., Myrmeleontidae
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Treehole antlion, Cymothales sp., Myrmeleontidae
Photographed in Mabira Forest, Uganda by Frank Deschandol
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Opalized 80 million years old Ammonite measuring 2 ft. in diameter, discovered near Alberta, Canada
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I had this idea for a looping animation in which a single dot has a pretty long loop, but the animation as a whole is much shorter. Because of the repetition this animation is only 1 second long!
THIS GIF IS ONE SECOND LONG
I added a little shadow thing
Trichosanthes cucumerina - snake gourd
found this abandoned quilt top while cleaning and had to finish it up finally. screen printed and sewn last semester and finally quilted and bound yesterday. using holographic foils to emulate the glassy appearance of diatoms under the microscope, i sewed a log cabin pattern as a playful nod to the idea that diatoms live in tiny glass houses.
Glass Cabin, 2023, 40x42in, pieced cotton with textile foil screenprints, polyester batting, gifted fabric backing

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holy SHIT please read the whole thread and many more of these images right here, this artist put together an updated Opabinia reconstruction where every single one of these minute details (except coloration, obviously) are fully sourced making this most likely the first depiction factoring in 100% of current knowledge about it. Even I didn’t know it had little feet like a velvet worm and could have walked around on them! I never knew exactly how the trunk is oriented or how many “teeth” it is! I especially didn’t know the mouth was that weird! And I kind of assumed this since it’s a lobopod and all, but the whole animal was soft and squishy except for the eyes and the teeth. It did not have armor plates or a jointed exoskeleton like a lot of people portray. This also means all five of the eyes would have been able to bend and look around independently! The eye structure in fossils also indicates that they would have PSEUDOPUPILS! That’s the pupil-like dot in the eyes of insects like mantises!
anemones seen here using specialized body growths called acrorhagi to attack each other during an argument in the intertidal zone.
Anthopluera xanthogrammica San Mateo county CA, Aug. 2015 / T3i /
Still in awe that more than zero people in the world believe corals are just inanimate mineral formations, or that sea anemones are plants, or that sea urchins are just stationary objects, or that so many people didn’t know that every single seashell in the world comes from the death of its original owner and isn’t “molted” or “shed” from live snails. People deserve to know marine invertebrates as well as they do so many other animals :(
#they don’t swap shells?? is that only the lil hermit crabs?? do they also not make their own shells??? I am confused #like I didn’t think snails swapped but are they the only ones who make them?? With the exception of a couple cephalopods, all spiral seashells are made by snails! The same shell grows with the snail its entire life and a hermit crab is simply a crustacean that learned to re-use the remains of dead snails :)
but what about this ?
I never heard of this and the fact that a sea anemone evolved to make exactly a fake snail shell is positively blowing my mind. A hermit crab isn’t even shaped that way. An anemone and a snail are completely different phyla. It must end up coiling the same way as a snail shell simply because it keeps growing with the hermit crab! It has to start as a curved aperture for the particular way a hermit crab retracts and the only way to make it keep growing is to spiral forward and then there’s just no way it’s not gonna come out exactly like a snail! That’s so ludicrous!!! The anemone does this so it’ll have the same crab as long as it lives?! It just keeps adding to the shell so the crab never feels the need to change!!?!?!
There’s a lot of confusion in the notes because “cloak anemone” refers to many different anemones that may attach to and surround a shell, but this specific species is confirmed to actually make one that keeps growing. It attaches to a small shell first, but begins adding onto it and eventually there’s nothing but tiny fragments left of the original!
Stylobates: A Shell-Forming Sea Anemone (Coelenterata, Anthozoa, Actiniidae) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29737173_Stylobates_A_Shell-Forming_Sea_Anemone_Coelenterata_Anthozoa_Actiniidae
Hey what the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck?
Evoking Organic Growth, Toru Kurokawa’s Ceramic Sculptures Stretch and Swell into Abstract Forms
Perfect standing wave on a computer-controlled wave pool
If you, like me, did not know what a standing wave looks like, please keep watching this until about halfway through when the whole pool is synced. It’s eerie and cool af

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Morphing Particle Rafts
A layer of tiny glass beads sitting atop a pool of castor oil becomes a morphing surface in this video. Applying an electric field creates enough electrostatic force to draw the interface upward against the power of both gravity and surface tension. (Image and video credit: K. Sun et al.) Read the full article
THE BATS ARE DOING CALCULUS
I REPEAT: THE BATS ARE DOING CALCULUS
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thinking about the northern stargazer ♥
how romantic for a creature to bury itself in the sand and gaze forever upwards at the heavens! how sublime that humans, observing this quiet creature staring skyward, should dub them “stargazer,” one who gazes at stars
*politely* may we see it?
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Here’s something cute
When lockdown happened in the UK it happened very suddenly. At the law firm I work at, our office building emptied overnight when everyone was told to work from home. No time to clear our desks, no time to bring office plants home.
Fast forward three and a half months - everyone assumes that their plants are dead.
But then! An email goes round! It’s turns out that one of our security guards is a florist, and -
-the security team has moved EVERY SINGLE PLANT from all 12 FLOORS of our office building into the cafeteria. It’s been turned into a temporary greenhouse. Cacti and succulents and spider plants and terrariums and potted ferns
AND! Each plant has been INDIVIDUALLY LABELLED by hand with post-it notes with name and desk location so the plants can go home after lockdown ends
To give some indication of the scale of the endeavour:
If you zoom into the centre right photo you can see one of our security team happily waving
The plants are being taken care of tenderly. They get sun and water and are spending happy times with other plant friends
Well this made me pregnant-cry

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