Digitally reconstructing the pattern of leaves for a 400-million-year plant fossil shows that an early plant didn't follow the Fibonacci sequence of leaf arrangement seen in most modern plants https://t.co/EqyIDSLVn4
Paddlefish swim with their mouth open to filter feed plankton.
They have electroreceptors that can detect weak electrical fields which signal the presence of zooplankton
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Melibe viridis is basically a carnivorous sea slug with a gelatinous vacuum cleaner for a head: in fact the nudibranch has an oral veil that can expand into a "fish net" to eat its prey
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Pachelbel's Canon in D, P 37 played by countless trains, the sounds of which were recorded and assembled by the Czech machinist Pavel Jirásek
[source, HD: https://t.co/BMsGOl4Ubi]
THE BLACK TOWER (1987): Channel 4 aired John Smith's experimental 'architectural horror' short about a man haunted by a black building which follows him everywhere he goes. A metaphor for depression, it fell into the same 'seen once, never forgotten' category as La Cabina.
Long-lost bird species, thought to be extinct, captured in images for 1st time in 140 years. Footage of the black-naped pheasant-pigeon were captured by scientists in the first documented sighting of the bird since 1882
[more: https://t.co/cg3seCFgbh]
The bizarre floral appearance of Hydnora africana seems almost extraterrestrial, but in fact it is finely adapted for pollination in its arid habitat. This plant, resident of southern Africa only emerges from the soil to flower
[source, read more: https://t.co/T67osvslt4]
A chameleon having a live birth. This happens only to some species that are "ovoviviparous", meaning that the babies grow inside the mother for a few months and are then born live
[source: https://t.co/mZHGNuI08h]
'An exhibition & film about how we are haunted by, and in turn haunt our ancestors, and a family who cannot agree on how to tell their own story.'
Excited for 'Family Fugue' by George Finlay Ramsay.
Opening Fri, 6–9pm @GENERATORproj
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