Calectasia narragara - Blue Tinsel Lily A species endemic to Western Australia. This low growing shrub is characterised by beautiful purplish blue star shaped flowers with stamens that start yellow then turn orange and red with age. #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Showy snowy egret #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography #photography #canon

The big birds are Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) and the 1st attack is a Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana), second is a Mockingbird; they’re executing a nest defensive strategy called mobbing. #birds #ecology #nature #wildlife

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A beautiful butterfly up close #macro #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin

What if the betting apps are schemes to capture inside information? Imagine the platform identifying people personally close to an event and tracking how they are betting? Then a few privileged users have access to that data and piggyback onto those bets?

The #Doldrums science team recorded these smooth swimmers during ROV operations between 3,700 and 3,900 meters while exploring the Doldrums Megatransform and Fracture Zone along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Read about how sea cucumbers are useful in evolutionary dev. bio: youtube.com/shorts/rPhdn...

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Since my neighbor passed away, we are still looking for homes for his cats. If you are in the Davis/Sac areas and are looking for a fat, fluffy void or a scrawny old lady cat to boss you around, reach out! #cats #caturday

Alright. I have a soft spot for this orange elder and really want to find him an amazing home. SO… If you adopt him, I will take you on a guided adventure, once per month for a year, to see something awesome and wildlife-related in the Davis area. Your own personal biologist AND an orange. #DavisCA

After a rainy day - almost skipped my evening walk, glad I didn’t

Is it possible to dig a hole all the way to Mars?

'Last breath' by Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary land and seascape painter whose work concentrates on the Scottish highlands, and Western Isles #WomensArt

Hoppy Father's Day to all you amazing papas to your furbabies, plants, and/or humans! 🥰 youtu.be/RfBtthW_Q5U 🐰💜 #rabbit #WildBunny #wildlife #bunny #nature #PNW #cottontail #mammals #FathersDay #SundayBunday #bunday

Early internet days, I thought discussions like this would become the foundations on which we would find ways to manage complex problems w a view towards longterm health for us and our shared home. (Which are the same thing.) Instead we got billionaires & groypers. Cool thread tho.

Really sad news. Such a big loss for Inside Climate News and environmental journalism broadly. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

The fact that most of the wealthiest people in the world are awful illustrates that the key requirement for extreme, obscene wealth isn’t “genius.” It’s shamelessness/ruthlessness.

Profoundly insightful thread. 🧵 The insight shared here is simultaneously frightening and affirming. #Ai #Claude

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

Flying puppy is so excited his ears are vibrating. 🩵🩵🩵

It's not often that a living man gets such a vivid preview of how he will be mourned.

iPhones do not depress fertility. Better access to information helps women to stay safe from abusive partners and acquire more deliberate agency in all aspects of their lives.

We have a sea gooseberry bloom here in Norfolk at the moment! Thousands of gooseberry-sized comb jellies (ctenophore) are currently washed up on our beaches, glistening in the sun. And yes, they’re plankton! #marineplankton 🦑

Oh! Oh! I want underwear that shouts when it needs washing!

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

This is a suggestion of ways you may wish to celebrate in the near future. It has two parts. Do you have any favorite apple pie recipes? Maybe it’s time to start thinking about an #ApplePie tradition to kick off #Pride each year with your loved ones. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

This is one of the reasons I stopped celebrating Halloween. Where is the joy when millions of single-use costumes are made out of plastic fibers to be tossed into a landfill? All the creativity has been sucked out and commodified. The creative process was the point.

Excellent thread.

How are things going in the world? Oh. Ok.

(sound on for full effect) Chapman State Park near Clarendon, PA is home to Chapman Lake, which is home to a group of energetic North American river otters (Lontra canadensis) that like to host a midnight rave / leaf frolic. Not sure where they plug the speakers in.

Henri Rousseau - Exotic Landscape, 1908

You're looking at a Rainbow Tripod Fish (genus Bathypterois) observed on a blackwater dive near Cozumel, MX. This species demonstrates "ontogenetic vertical migration": young of this species mimic jellyfish near the surface, but descend in depth as they age. (📷: Frida Yolotzin, Blackwater Cozumel)

A bull-snouted sea that wouldn't stay put, Bucked at the garden gate.

Buffalo treehopper nymph

How can anything be so beautiful? Real angels are very small.

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

Mary Oliver, Evidence, 2009 #poetry #poem #MaryOliver #BookWormSat

#BunnyButtFriday with Ruby hoppin by bloomin bluebells💜 (5.2024) You can see Ruby go from shy baby to a sweet and caring mama in her YT playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Thanks for your support! 🐰💜 #rabbit #wildlife #bunny #nature #PNW #cottontail #mammals #BunnySky #FlowersOnFriday

Nice shot of a beautiful gopher snake! They are beneficial garden friends that help keep the rodent population under control.