The Rock Gangue

Meniscoessus Robustus and the famous Didelphodon Vorax, both lived alongside Trex at the end of the Mesozoic.

And what this means is I can now play music with an interface made up of pixel art old enough to rent a car

Spotted: Deep-sea besties doing deep-sea things 🐙💞⁠

insane headline to pair with the actual photo of the beastie itself

Monterey Bay Aquarium volunteers sign up to feed our Kelp Forest fronds twice a day! 

As soon as we get in the water, the fish know it’s time for lunch! We feed them a wide variety of restaurant-quality sustainable seafood like sardines, anchovies, and squid. 😋🐟

During the feeding, guests watch fish dance around the divers, curious and eager for their meal. Our divers love watching the kids on the other side of the glass, captivated by our Kelp Forest exhibit residents.

The interactive feedings help guests feel closer to the ocean and walk away inspired by the beauty and life of this underwater ecosystem. 

There’s wonder in ocean life and caring for it helps us all.

It's Fossil Friday! Behold the dazzling colors of an iridescent ammonite (Placenticeras intercalare). A relative of today’s squids, this ammonite lived some 80 million years ago near what is now Alberta, Canada. This fossil’s spectacular coloration is the result of millions of years of high temperatures and pressures. As these forces acted on nacre in this ammonite’s shell, it was transformed into a gemstone known as an ammolite. Along with amber and pearl, ammolite is one of only a handful of gems made by living organisms. You can spot this rare specimen in the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Collections Core in the Museum’s Gilder Center.

We're back in The Pitt for season 2 and rooting for our faves as they embark on another long day of emergency medicine at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Here's some fan art of Drs. Robby, Whitaker, King & co to keep you going til Friday.

(mild spoilers! tap on the attribution to go to the original post :)

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Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight