Imagine being born a goat and not knowing exactly why you are climbing a rock but you just feel like it’s right to
(via human-flesh-search)
itd be fucked up if our teeth were always flacid but got hard when we ate
Look at the eyes on the deep sea fish IPNOPS. They’re some of the most modified eyes ever known in a vertebrate. It’s basically lost “eyeballs” in favor of huge, concave lenses, perfect for gathering even the faintest light, possibly used to hunt bioluminescent invertebrates.
I’ve known about these since drawings of them when I was little but I never saw such clear photos of a living one before.
NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition. License: CC By Attribution
I’m really glad this got so many notes and so many people have been seeing IPNOPS.
(via bogleech)
When loggers cut the end off a chestnut oak tree, they found a decades-old, mummified dog inside.
Today, “Stuckie,” eternally reaching for freedom that will never come, is on display at a tree museum.
What happened? Why didn’t Stuckie rot? A biological anthropologist explains.
(via speciesofleastconcern)
DTF
