no offense but why does anyone other than me get to control the way my hair looks
152K notes
·
View notes
The Featured Creature: Stunning Bright Blue Cloud Forest Millipede Is Sure to Shock You
Okay, who’s ready to have their mind BLOWN?!
Check out this absolutely stunning Blue Cloud Forest Millipede (Pararhachistes potosinus) found only in the remote high altitude cloud forests of Mexico. The bright blue coloration warns predators about its ability to produce toxic secretions.
View the full article for more pics and deets!
Photo credits: Luis Stevens, George Grall
5K notes
·
View notes
Just wanna share some old ass slurpee pins
50K notes
·
View notes
Our colleague and palaeontologist Thierry Smith has discovered a 70 million year old mammal with red teeth in Transylvania, Romania. Iron strengthened Barbatodon transylvanicus’ incisors and molars and gave them their red colour. Barbatodon is the oldest known fossil mammal with iron in its teeth and its skull is the most complete mammal fossil from the Upper Cretaceous period in Europe.
Keep reading
6K notes
·
View notes
61K notes
·
View notes
34K notes
·
View notes
79K notes
·
View notes
The good sis did not come to play 😭.
Stay inside y’all.
42K notes
·
View notes
I can't stop thinking about how much mole skeletons remind me of whale skeletons.
We're all familiar with Space Whales but nobody ever talks about Space Moles. Or Desert Whales. Or Giant Ocean Moles. And that's terrible.
44K notes
·
View notes
128K notes
·
View notes
another work in progress!! this one is a northern rotund-resin bee.
251 notes
·
View notes
30K notes
·
View notes
I laughed way too hard at this
641K notes
·
View notes
1K notes
·
View notes