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found a shadow room and drew a rad dinosaur skeleton on the phosphorescent wall with my phone flashlight

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

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This is how the James Web telescope works

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Hello there! Could we have a cursed fact about turkey vultures? Thanks,

you've probably heard that most vultures have bald heads so they don't get all yuck while going about their daily business.

(their daily business is sticking their entire head into rotting carcasses)

and this is true, but maybe you didn't know that turkey vultures in particular have a moveable neck ruff!

so when it gets cold, they can just-

zip it up.

comfy cozy!

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This ferrofluid audio-visualizer created by artist Dakd Jung dances to the music.

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A 392 year old Greenland shark that was recently discovered in the Arctic Ocean. Meaning this shark was alive in 1627!

Greenland sharks have a lifespan of around 400 years. Most are blind due to a parasite attracting itself to its eyes. Their meat is poisonous and they do not attack humans.

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Iceland

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Traditional Georgian dancing.

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This jelly’s crazy colors and far-out appearance clued scientists into a unique find. ✨

Of all the jellies that call the ocean’s midnight zone home, the psychedelic jelly (Crossota millsae) is one of the most stunning. Its wildly colorful appearance—ruby red, bright orange, and electric purple—first tipped off scientists that they had found a previously unknown species.

But a closer look offered scientists another surprise: This species is one of a handful of jellies that bear live young.

The female psychedelic jelly broods her babies on those crimson canals that radiate out inside her bell. Mom carries more than a single baby at once. Her babies can all be different sizes, indicating different stages of development. The developing young get their nutrition from mom. In their shelter beneath her bell, the little jellies grow bigger and bigger, even sprouting tentacles while still attached to their mother. When the juvenile jelly outgrows its shelter, it pulses free and swims off to live on its own. As the juvenile grows, its lavender color fades, developing the tangerine pigmentation typical of adults.

Learn more about this dazzling drifter on our Creature feature page.

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Doriath - Kent, England

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LMAO

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Lea Whittington, Chicken Bone Chandelier, 1995

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Colorful Patterns of Stained Glass Nestle Within Repurposed Sea Defense Timber

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One of the highest achievements of Italian Gothic art and architecture is Orvieto Cathedral. Few buildings in the world are that ornate, and at the same time - few have such a well balanced and harmonious architecture.

A very good text about it can be read here.