The fossil dated to ~99 million years ago preserves a hell ant, Ceratomyrmex ellenbergeri, grasping its prey (a nymph of the cockroach relative Caputoraptor elegans) in a manner that is only possible through vertical mandible movement.
At some point during my PhD, my partner and I discovered that some doctoral graduates (read Finnish) get a sword when they graduate. Apparently this is a fact my partner held on to and he decided to honor me with my very own Doctor's Sword now that I’m done. 🥺
The elephant’s penis is not only massive but prehensile. They use it to prop themselves up, swat flies from their side and scratch themselves on their stomach [source of the gif: ]
Sacoglossan sea slugs don't mind losing their heads. Not only can the sea slugs elect to detach their heads and survive, but they can regrow a whole new body. Read more in
@CurrentBiology
@NaraWomensUniv
Video: Sayaka Mitoh
#Manatee
playing with a pod of dolphins.
Although
#dolphins
&
#manatees
regularly cross paths, it is extremely rare to see them interact. To my knowledge this is the only footage showing the 2 species actively interacting for more than a few seconds.
#nature
#florida
#amazing
WATCH: The bones of an adult woolly mammoth that roamed the earth at least 10,000 years ago have been discovered in the shallows of a north Siberian lake
The is an olm, an aquatic salamander once believed to be a baby dragon in Slovenian folklore:
"Heavy rains of Slovenia would wash the olms up from their subterranean habitat, giving rise to the folklore belief that great dragons lived beneath the Earth's crust"
#FolkloreThursday
See the entire serendipitous, beautiful encounter during the
#CostaRicaDeep
expedition here:
We archive all of our livestreamed ROV dives on our
@YouTube
channel.
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#DataDive
This is what the surface of a comet looks like.
This animation comprises a set of images of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, acquired by the
@ESA_Rosetta
spacecraft and processed by
@landru79
.
The things that seems to be falling in the background are the stars in space.
Zebras are often more resilient than we think. When they’re injured by predators and receive gashing wounds it’s easy to write them off as being guaranteed to not survive (depends on its severity of course) but it’s not unusual to see individuals with healed scars from attacks 🧵