Orache moth (Trachea atriplicis) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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The exceptional lenght of sun bears tongue (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
A sun bear, highlighting its exceptionally long tongue, which can extend up to 25 cm (10 inches). This adaptation is particularly suited for foraging insects such as termites, ants, and beetle larvae from their nests....
Meet the Galaxy Frog (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Majestic baobabs (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Roman d20 was a thing (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Roman rock-crystal icosahedron (20-sided dice) used in fortune-telling. Each face has a Latin letter on it and a corresponding Roman numeral....
Origin of the modern flushable toilet (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The first modern flushable toilet was invented in 1596 by Sir John Harrington who installed one for his godmother, Elizabeth I....
2,000-year-old skull of a Peruvian warrior found to be fused together by metal (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Experts from a US museum believe it could be one of the oldest examples of advanced surgery. The Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma said the skull is reported to have been that of a man who was injured in battle before undergoing surgery to implant a piece of metal in his head to repair a fracture.
A Roman “hologram” effect ring found in the grave of 1st century AD noblewoman, Aebutia Quarta. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The ring is thought to depict her son, Titus Carvilius Gemello, who passed away at age of 18. Found at the Grottaferrata necropolis close to Rome.
The Two Kashmir Giants Posing With The American Photographer James Ricalton (1903) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
A Triceratops femur (left) compared to that of an African elephant (right) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Bearing a large bony frill, three horns on the skull, and a large, four-legged body, exhibiting convergent evolution with bovines and rhinoceroses, Triceratops is one of the most recognizable of all dinosaurs and the best-known ceratopsian....
Saiga antelops look otherworldly (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Biblically accurate angels (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Hundreds of elongated skulls found in Perù (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
One of the hundreds of elongated skulls that were discovered in 1928 at Paracas Peninsula in Peru. Cranial deformation was practiced by the Paracas civilization (800-100 BCE) by tightly wrapping the head in cloth, during the first few years of life, in order to elongate the cranium
Starship 2 Launch - Tower Cam (youtu.be)
One year since the launch of a Artemis 1 (youtu.be)
… Launch synced to Freebird
The astonishing beauty of the Sun (files.catbox.moe)
Our Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system. It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star. Without the Sun’s energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet....
Fishing with meat (files.catbox.moe)
To Scale: Time (youtu.be)
On a dry lakebed in the Mojave, a group of friends build a practical scale model of time: 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution, and our place within it.
The surreal Ruyi Bridge in the city of Taizhou, Zhejiang, China (files.catbox.moe)
Ruyi Bridge (如意桥 - Rúyì qiáo) is a footbridge in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, made up of three bridges. It is a pedestrian bridge which was built to cross the Shenxianju Valley and it features a glass-bottomed walkway. The unusual curved walkways are designed to look like a Chinese ruyi (a kind of scepter).
Abuna Yemata Guh, the church in the mountain (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Ever heard of Argentavis Magnificens? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
NASA rover finds strange dragon bone-looking Mars rocks (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
On April 1 2023 NASA’s Curiosity rover uncovered a bizarre-looking rock formation, a images of what closely resembles dragon bones....
A journey through wood (files.catbox.moe)
WoodSwimmer is a new short film by engineer and stop-motion animator Brett Foxwell, who has built armatures for films such as Boxtrolls and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Created in collaboration with musician and animator bedtimes, the work follows a piece of raw wood through a milling machine, capturing its unique growth rings,...