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There are three breeds of cat:
Chonk
Goblin
Yeah that looks like a cat
Happy Fossil Friday! Even though this animal looks like a big lizard, it is one of the early relatives of mammals: meet Edaphosaurus! It lived 280 million years ago, in the Permian Period. The key feature that tells us Edaphosaurus is related to mammals? The synapsid opening behind each eye socket. Photo: © AMNH
The Cats of Morroco 💙
This mysterious hole nearly swallowed a 6-year-old boy
On the south shore of Lake Michigan there are a series of large sand dunes that create the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The dunes are a consequence of winds blowing sand along the length of Lake Michigan and the lake level dropping over time and exposing the shorelines. The largest is known as Mount Baldy, a 40-meter high pile of sand that is not anchored by vegetation and migrates side to side every year depending on the winds.
In July 2013, a Northwestern Illinois family including 6-year-old Nathan Woessner was hiking along the dune on vacation. Suddenly, Nathan vanished and all that was left was this hole. Adults reached in and couldn’t feel the boy or reach his hands.
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Blue Morning - Lake Como, Bellagio, Italy
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Finally made it to the legendary Stuttgart Museum of Natural History and it was worth the wait. Many people have described this as the single best paleontology Museum in the world and I can see why. There is so much to see, all beautifully preserved and presented. Over the next few days I’ll share my top picks from the museum but to whet your appetite, here’s an entire wall of giant Ichthyosaurs specimens from Holzmaden including Temnodontosaurus trigonodon and Eurhinosaurus longirostris.
Big trays of fossil sea urchins
nice_little_urchins
Fragment of Ammonite Craspedodiscus Discofalcatus with Pyrite
volgaminerals
brennanthepaleodude
I led yet another fossil hunting trip to #kitsilanobeach for the @vancouverpaleosociety and it went really well!
I will be posting some longer videos of the fossil site to YouTube, so if you would like to see more, check out my channel Brennan The Paleo Dude!
I am a peddler of chubby cat pics
i love cats. like we as a species just really go out of our way to obtain fat little house goblins in the hopes that they will occasionally acknowledge us
Carboniferous flora impressions and casts from around Bukówka Lake near Lubawka. There are mostly Equisetales and Lepidodendrales to find here. Haven’t spotted any fern-like things so far.
This account has been sharing old videos of the many decades of lava flows on Kilauea. Often that volcano will wake up after only a few months of inactivity when it does go quiet, so it probably won’t be long before they get new footage.
Here’s an incredible lava breakout. A crust of pahoehoe is fractured by the pressure of the lava behind it, and the lava spills out onto the surface. Watch how some of the other still-soft rocks nearby flex downwards as the new lava moves on top of them. Also watch how the videographer slowly retreats…
epiclava_
Break on through…
Omg lol.
Cat located
Marius the acrobat ヽ(•‿•)ノ
Me writing: “She knew she had to go in this town called…”
My brain:
Blue tit/blåmes.
Wren
Don’t forget that:
It’s tadpoles’ season
Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”