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Fingal's Cave is a geological formation located on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

It is known for its extraordinary structure of hexagonal basalt columns, which were formed from rapidly cooled volcanic lava millions of years ago. The cave is approximately 72 meters long and is notable for its natural acoustics, giving it a cathedral-like quality.

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Freshwater crabs dating back to the Pleistocene period, approximately 600 thousand to 1.1 million years ago, were formed in Denizli, Turkey. What makes these fossils unique is that no other fossilized freshwater crabs in the world have been found preserved within their own habitat (travertine). These exceptional fossils were discovered in a marble/travertine mine

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@lingerie_addict has a really cool thread on ancient fashion over on twitter.

Those source links are here

cambridge.org

Youtube

ucl.ac.uk

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glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.

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Two Men Contemplating the Moon (1830) by Caspar David Friedrich

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A true story from 1928 with a few artistic embellishments.

(And starring my disaster boys Jack and Al, of course)

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bro we're so fucked they just integrated a ticking clock into the background music

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Roques de García, Tenerife [3072x4080] [OC] - Author: Mimotep on Reddit

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Can't see this and not share the hagfish truck crash.

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Natural Quasicrystals! I didn't know that they existed outside of labs!

Here's an old vid on the structures behind these things, it's a really interesting story:

Years of combing through dusty archives turned up nothing, until a box from the Museum of Natural History in Florence, Italy, arrived at Princeton containing a nearly invisible speck of a rare mineral, khatyrkite. On 2 January 2009, the researchers became certain that they had discovered a natural quasicrystal (later named icosahedrite). 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00026-y?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf205804864=1

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Okay maybe I'm high and sappy. But this made me tear up and I wrote a poem about a meteor. Lmk if yall wanna hear it...

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I FOUND IT GUYS I SPENT HALF AN HOUR LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO AND ITS HERE

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