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i have some questions yet i find myself too afraid to seek answers

#tumbleweed #vegetable

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A Replicated Sculpture Of The Giant Short-Faced Bear, Which Inhabited A Significant Portion Of North America Until Approximately 11,000 Years Ago

And yes, humans would have encountered it.

#wow #animals #megafauna #prehistoric animals #extinct animals #animal

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Blue Sausage Tree (Dead Man's Fingers), Decaisnea fargesii. Thank you, @psychmeup, for renaming them jean beans.

Not to be confused with the fungus Dead Man's Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha), which imo is much creepier-looking:

Dead man’s fingers

#blue sausage tree #dead man's fingers #jean beans #blue #vegetable #fungus #happy halloween folks

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#invertebrates #chinese moon moth #moths #animal

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Greater Blue-eared Glossy-starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus), family Sturnidae, Kruger National Park, South Africa

photograph by PanWoyteczek

#birbs #birds #greater blue-eared glossy starling #starling #animal

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Allium siculum or Netaroscordum siculum

#allium #flowers #vegetable #i do love a good alium

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...I just learned that chevrotain have fangs. 

Yellow striped chevrotain (Moschiola kathygre)

#ilu chevrotain!!! #chevrotain #deer #but not really #cute animals #animal #i want one #like if i can't have a pet eohippus #i at least want a chevrotain.

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OH NO THE MORE PICTURES I FIND, THE CUTER IT GETS

Lowland paca (Cuniculus paca)

#paca #never seen this one before! #cute animals #mammal #rodents #animal

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Fossilas: crinoid stems and stars including a 6 pointed pentacrites and a pyritised ammonte

#fossils #crinoid #animal #mineral

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Giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)

@Autumn Driscoll

#that is a very animal #anteater #giant anteater #mammal #animal

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What is a mammal which should absolutely not belong to the mammal group it belongs to (visually or otherwise)? Like how hyenas are apparently more closely related to cats than dogs.

Almost every Euplerid look like mongooses, reasonably tubular with wedge faced heads and a little bit of pizazz

But fossa didn’t get the memo, they look like a mountain lion and tree civet had a baby, not a tube but a beefcake! They don’t look much like their relatives imo!

#fossa #kitty #mammal #animal #i wanna pet its soft lfur and feel its loose baggy skin and then get bitten because that thing is simultaneously adorable and terrifying

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Everybody give it up for columnar jointing

#basalt #mineral #i've never seen wavy basalt columns before! #heart eyes

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Pyrite on Quartz  Locality: Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion, La Libertad, Peru

#want #pyrite #quartz #mineral

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False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)

#wtf #false killer whale #sea mammals #animal #it looks like a cartoon of itself #i love it #venom's fun cousin

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Banded linsang (Prionodon linsang)

Edit: accidentally double posted AND repeated the image, here’s an actual new one

#linsang #weasel family #go figure #animal #Viverridae

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Osmium.

#osmium #mineral #(shiny)

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I had a nightmare once about a talking saiga antelope.

I genuinely think this thing might be worse.

Lelwel hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel)

#lelwel hartebeest #deer #weird animals #animal #tw bones #wtf is up with those eyes wtf wtf wtf