from the heart of darkness

As if cats weren’t already badass enough

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The Dalai Lama  (via dirtyberd)

The assassin bugs stab their prey with a needle-like mouth, then suck out the good stuff. Instead of discarding the shell, they’ll actually stick it to their back, building up huge piles of corpses. This helps break up their profile and assume the scent of their prey. Getty Images

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Queen Hatshepsut of Ancient Egypt. She has a lovely smile for someone who’s been dead for thousands of years.

sad part is in Egyptian belief is  if your are forgotten in the living world you don’t exist in the afterlife,so he was trying to kill her even in death 

The doors slam open and Hatshepsut strides in, glorious, robes swirling, rocking the fake beard and the insane amounts of wealth and power. “Miss me, bitches?” 

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Sponges are filter-feeding marine animals that rely on water flow to obtain their nutrients and remove waste. By injecting non-toxic fluorescein dye at their base, one can visualize the flow they induce in the water. Only seconds after the dye is introduced, the sponges have pumped it in, through, and out. Different parts of the sponge filter particles of various sizes for food. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are transported, respectively, into and out of cells via diffusion. In this way, the sponge’s pumping fulfills digestive, respiratory, and excretory functions.  (Image credit: Jonathan Bird’s Blue World, source video; submitted by Jason C)

Wicker Park

Florence, Italy