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Lobaria anthraspis

Dimpled specklebelly

I have been saving this lichen for a special occasion because I am so incredibly in love with her that I haven't wanted to free her from my drafts folder. But today is the day. This gorgeous weirdo is a tripartite (has both a green algae AND a cyanobacteria as photobionts) foliose lichen which grows only in the cold, humid forests of western North America. It has leathery, reticulated lobes which vary in color from dark brown (melanized) to gray blue to olive green in color. It produces lots of apothecia which also vary in color from orange to red to brown to black. Like other Lobarias, L. anthraspis prefers old-growth, isolated forests far away from pollution and disturbance. So my current retirement plan is to wander into the forest and settle wherever I find her and live out the rest of my life in peace and joy (the rest of my life not being very long due to the harsh winters of the region, but at least I will go out happy in the presence of the one I love).

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Various ice formations on wheels caused by driving through the snow.

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A colossal Aztec serpent’s head made from volcanic rock. Late Postclassic (1325-1521 AD), now on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

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Reaper Man / The Shepherd’s Crown / Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

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Plastic Chair in Wood by Maarten Baas (2008)

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Fog Environment #47660 Children’s Park Showa Kinen Park, Tachikawa Tokyo Japan, 1992

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tetramorium fulviceps also known as little shmoopy doopy skrunkly dinkly doos

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Biologist Annihilation and Laios Dungeonmeshi most specialest characters ever for being realistic depictions of having a special interest in biology as an autistic person thank you. Sometimes you really are so intense about organism mechanics that it makes you transspecies. Less ''this is my one well-known animal I know first-page-of-Google fun facts about'' bio freak representation and more ''I love this ecosystem I'm part of it now'' bio freak representation

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the last of the spiky raku guys from this firing. i have always had very mixed results with raku because it's a hard technique to master, but this guy turned out absolutely amazing and I am just so pleased with the crackle on him!!

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Wolf collar worn by sheep.

Museum of World Cultures

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For the first time, researchers have found evidence that underwater ecosystems have pollinators that perform the same task as bees on land.

Just like their terrestrial cousins, grasses under the sea shed pollen to sexually reproduce. Until now, biologists assumed the marine plants relied on water alone to spread their genes far and wide. But the discovery of pollen-carrying ‘bees of the sea’ has changed all of that.

Over several years from 2009 to 2012, researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico filmed the spring nocturnal wanderings of crustaceans among beds of turtle seagrass, Thalassia testudinum.

Looking through the videos, they spotted more invertebrates visiting male pollen-bearing flowers than those that lacked pollen – just like bees hovering around pollen-producing plants on land.

“We saw all of these animals coming in, and then we saw some of them carrying pollen,” lead researcher Brigitta van Tussenbroek told New Scientist.

The concept was so new, they invented a new term to describe it: zoobenthophilous pollination. Before that, researchers had never predicted that animals were involved in pollinating marine plants.

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I like Maedhros so far, hope nothing bad happens to him after that thing with his arm

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Young Chincoteague ponies wrestle on Chincoteague Island, part of Virginia's Eastern Shore, in the 1970s. 

PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

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theres something about water

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Mud Salamander (Pseudotriton montanus), family Plethodontidae, Maryland, USA

photograph by Scott Bolick