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Steven Kovacs (Canadian, b. Canada, based Palm Beach, FL, USA) -Sneak attack. A Broadclub Cuttlefish goes after a rival in a fight for a nearby female. Yakushima, Japan, Underwater Photography

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

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A butternut woollyworm ♡

can you imagine being dealt this hand

ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY May 24, 2026 at 05:00PM What are these strange space globs? Situated in rich star fields and glowing hydrogen gas, these opaque clouds of interstellar dust and gas are so large they might be able to form stars. Their home is known as IC 2944, a bright stellar nursery located about 7,600 light years away toward the constellation of the Centaur (Centaurus). The largest of these dark globules, first spotted by A. D. Thackeray in 1950 using a telescope in South Africa, is likely two separate but overlapping clouds, each more than one light-year wide. Along with other data, the featured Hubble palette image from the El Sauce Observatory in Chile, indicates that Thackeray's globules are fractured and churning as a result of intense ultraviolet radiation from young, hot stars already energizing and heating the bright emission nebula. These and similar dark globules known to be associated with other star forming regions may ultimately be dissipated by their hostile environment -- like cosmic lumps of butter in a hot frying pan. Image: https://ift.tt/H8YGyqu via NASA https://ift.tt/5BWsNlo APOD --> https://ift.tt/BD6snuf

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Russula + chanterelle (photo #3) growing in moss and heather.

It’s Fossil Friday! Take a bite out of the weekend with Dilophosaurus wetherilli, a carnivorous dinosaur that lived some 194 million years ago during the Early Jurassic. This dino acquired its name, which means “double-crested reptile,” from the paired crests on its skull. They were possibly used for display. This specimen was found in 1942 at the Kayenta Formation in Tuba City, Arizona. You can see it in the Museum’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs!  To spot Dilophosaurus and other dinos, plan your visit. Photo: © AMNH

Especial Amanita

(Florida, 11/4/25)

Photographer Chris Perani is fascinated by the microstructures of insect wings, which he captures in “extreme macro” through focus stacking–letting us see wings in glorious micron-scale detail.  (Image credit: C. Perani; via Colossal)

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3706371

another neat thing about these guys is that most caterpillars drown easily, but since water primrose (Ludwigia) usually grows in standing water, E. fasciatus caterpillars have a propensity for swimming and are often seen wriggling their way through lakes when they need to come ashore to pupate.

(Image is astrophotographer Ildar Ibatullin colors are exaggerated to show the landscape and minerals of the moon. Thank you Artemis II crew and NASA, and everyone past and current, who has been able to give us this.)