Brazilian Skipper caterpillars are translucent, here you can see it’s respiratory system, fluctuating as it breathes
Holes in its sides called spiracles, draw oxygen into the trachea
Butterflies will sometimes land on a Caiman and drink its salty, crocodile tears to in order to survive. This helps the Caiman to feel both less sad and more fabulous.
📸: Mark Cowan
Crazy clouds that resembled an angry ocean were seen over northeast New Hampshire Sunday. They are known as "asperitas" and form when there's atmospheric turbulence.
Thanks to Crystal Lee for sharing this amazing photo.
Some species of stink bugs lay eggs that look like a happy face emoji. it looks like they are “chatting” here but it’s the movement of the larvae
The dots are their eyes and the “smile” is the egg cutter which each will use to hatch
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Daisugi is a 14th century Japanese forestry technique that allows growing and harvesting perfect tall trees from the upper portions of existing trees leaving the base and root structure of the “mother tree” intact.
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In 1971, as part of a prisoner trustee program, then Governor of Georgia Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter hired Mary Prince to be their daughter’s nanny after she’d been convicted of manslaughter.
#TyreNichols family asked this be the video we share of him.
Watch it & know Tyre, like all our loved ones, deserved to live a long beautiful life free from state sanctioned murder. For Black & brown folks around the US, police violence is the greatest threat to that future.
This is a mummy shrew and her whisker of baby shrews.
Shrews have poor eyesight and these babies are nearly blind. To get about they form a conga. Each adorable animal biting the tail of the one in front
At Thanksgiving dinner, my mom was telling a story in which she said she looked at the "wall watch"
And no one reacted but after a beat I was like HOLD UP do you mean CLOCK