Warm blooded creature: wow I’m chilly
Warm blooded creature: *vibrates*
Cold blooded creature: wow I’m chilly
Cold blooded creature: goes into a coma
Warm blooded creature: wow I’m chilly
Warm blooded creature: *vibrates*
Cold blooded creature: wow I’m chilly
Cold blooded creature: goes into a coma
You know those little things that keep bread bags closed? Well, the internet would like to tell you about them. If you’re not doing anything too important right now, I think you should visit HORG (that’s the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group) and explore a beautiful, obsessive, hilarious taxonomy of occlupanids.
(ht Metafilter)
Some of these must have a tiny , isolated reproducing population, because they’re looking rather in-bread.
(Source: horg.com, via theolduvaigorge)
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Furniture plaque carved in relief with a winged, falcon-headed sphinx, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1967 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Ivory
(via theancientworld)
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Hedgehog. Aryballos, opening in the left ear, metaphoric scales for the spine armor. Ancient Greek, ca. 600 B.C.E.
Courtesy & currently located at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany. Photo taken by Bibi Saint-Pol.
(Source: commons.wikimedia.org, via ancientanimalart)
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Snake bracelet, Egyptian Art
Rogers Fund, 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Gold
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Maat?
Period:Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Date:664–30 B.C.
Geography:From Egypt
Medium:Cupreous metalthe met
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Barque Sphinx
Period:Late Period
Dynasty:Dynasty 26
Date:ca. 664–525 B.C.
Geography:From Egypt
Medium:Leaded bronzethe met
Every year, little black-and-white birds called pied flycatchers make the lengthy trek from sub-saharan Africa to northern Europe to feast on caterpillars, claim a nest, and have babies. This typically goes off without a hitch, and the birds return to Africa a few months later, offspring in tow. But recently, some flycatchers have arrived to find their nesting sites occupied by haughty, territorial great tits. And those birds don’t just chase flycatchers away—they brutally attack them, kill them, and eat their brains.
(Source: popsci.com, via theolduvaigorge)