mutant-distraction:

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Cave Pearls in Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico.

Cave pearls form around a nucleus of matter that can be a grain of sand, a piece of wood, etc. It happens when the water is moving too vigorously to form a stalagmite. The motion of the water buffs the pearls to a high gloss.

Carlsbad Cavern has so many cave pearls that they were at one time handed out to visitors as souvenirs.

How do journalists not cry whenever they interview someone about something sad

Bkbchds my dad was asking me about kpop bc apparently his favorite progressive talk show host is into it. So we watched a BTS video together and he said “these boys are extremely cute”

onenicebugperday:

Blue katydid, Lipotactes vietnamicus, Tettigoniidae

Found primarily in Vietnam

Photos 1-2 by budak, 3 by philbenstead, and 4 by andrewdubois

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lesbian-of-nine:

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Goths start doing this

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weepingwidar:

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Emma Steinkraus (American, 1987) - Pangolin Baby (2017)

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typhlonectes:
“Hog-nosed Shrew Rat (Hyorhinomys stuempkei), Sulawesi, Indonesia.Discovered by Western Science in 2015. This rat is carnivorous, feeding mainly on small on invertebrates, mostly beetle larvae and worms. this species is endemic to...

typhlonectes:

Hog-nosed Shrew Rat (Hyorhinomys stuempkei), Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Discovered by Western Science in 2015. This rat is carnivorous, feeding mainly on small on invertebrates, mostly beetle larvae and worms. this species is endemic to northern Sulawesi.

photograph by Kevin C Rowe | Museum Victoria CC

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napsapnapsap-archive:

napsapnapsap-archive:

picture this, i give you a glass bottle and tell you to open it, but bottle openers are forbidden, how do you do it?

im talking about this bitch btw

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shegos:

This right here, this is better than any poem.
DICKINSON (2019-2021)

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plumslices:

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🀩banana rum caramel cake!!!!!! Vanilla + hibiscus salt. So fluffy

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jeezypetes:

I’m gonna take a shower. Im gonna get up and take a shower and then I will be clean. Then I can change my sheets and take my weed butter off the double boiler

I did all of this AND waxed my calves.

nostalgicfun:

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One of my most bewildering and most cherished thrift finds. It consumed my thoughts so much I had to get in my car and go back to Goodwill to pay $1.99 for it. I like to imagine it makes Minecraft villager noises. β€œHmm.”

kragehund-again:

biologist here! why are plants green? well they suck up air from the sky (blue) and mix it with the sunlight (yellow) i fucking love science.

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