amnhnyc:

☁️Nothing to see here, just a cluster of Honduran white bats (Ectophylla alba)!

🦇This critter hides from foes by roosting beneath self-made tree tents that it builds by cutting a leaf along the midrib so that the sides fold down to create cover. When sunlight hits the foliage, it casts a green tinge on the bat’s white fur, allowing it to better blend in with its surroundings. Leaves with a waxy surface are preferred because they provide an added layer of waterproof protection.

Photo: Kevin Schafer, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, iNaturalist

#AnimalFacts #bats #HonduranWhiteBat #dyk #nature #CuteAnimals
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amnhnyc:

🕷️If you’re not a fan of spiders, then this might be the bird for you!

🐦The Streaked Spiderhunter (Arachnothera magna) lives in forests throughout parts of southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia. As its name suggests, a main part of its diet includes spiders. It forages in the trees looking for spiders to pluck from their webs—and even uses the webbing to help sew its nest together! Another staple in its diet is nectar; its long narrow bill helps it reach the sweet stuff deep inside flowers.

Photo: Tareq’s Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

#AnimalFacts #birds #ornithology #StreakedSpiderHunter #spider #dyk #nature
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amnhnyc:

🐍Meet the Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica). Though there are more than 250 kinds of vipers, this venomous species is the largest of them all, growing up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) long!

🌍It inhabits tropical forests in central Africa, including Uganda, Cameroon, and Gabon. Normally slow moving, this reptile is an ambush predator that strikes birds, frogs, and small mammals with lightning speed. Its prey escapes the initial attack… but not for long. The viper’s fangs deliver a toxic venom filled with enzymes that destroy nerves, tissue, and blood cells.

Photo: Frupus, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr

#AnimalFacts #dyk #GaboonViper #snakes #viper #reptiles #herpetology #nature
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amnhnyc:

🎞️Here’s a festive #TBT photo from 1969! On this Thanksgiving, the world-famous parade passed the Museum’s 77th Street turret with a very special float: a sauropod dinosaur.

🦕This inflatable Apatosaurus measured an impressive 60 feet long! The giant green dinosaur featured big eyes, a wide grin, and a 20-foot tail. The original Apatosaurus balloon made its first parade debut in 1963 and was retired from service in 1976.

Photo: Image no. 62158_21a, © AMNH Library

#amnh #Thanksgiving #Apatosaurus #dinosaurs #MacysParade #ThrowbackThursday #nyc #NewYorkCity #history
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amnhnyc:

Have you ever looked up at the night sky to find a view like this? Aurora, also known as the Northern or Southern Lights, are most often seen in high-latitude regions around the Arctic and Antarctic. These spectacular displays are caused by collisions between charged particles from solar wind and oxygen and nitrogen in Earth’s atmosphere. As the oxygen and nitrogen molecules revert to their normal state, they release photons, or small bursts of energy in the form of light—which is what we see on the ground below. The color of these hypnotizing displays is determined by what’s colliding: oxygen produces yellows and greens, while nitrogen is responsible for reds, violets, and blues.

Photo 1: Beverly & Pack, CC BY 2.0, flickr (Northern Lights)
Photo 2: Ben, CC BY-ND 2.0, flickr (Southern Lights)
Photo 3: Jukka Hernetkoski, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr (Northern Lights)
Photo 4: Trey Ratcliff, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr (Southern Lights)

#world #amazingplanet #space #northernlights #southernlights
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samaracpayne-blog:

werewolves in their youth two

aardwolfpack:

mysticplaces:

Karst sinkholes | Luoquanyan Village of Xuan’en County, Hubei province

Karst landscapes are formed primarily by the dissolution of bedrock … Rainwater, which is slightly acidic, picks up carbon dioxide as it runs through the soil, becoming more acidic. It then trickles, rushes and flows through cracks in the bedrock, slowly widening them into tunnels and voids. Over time, if a cave chamber gets large enough, the ceiling can gradually collapse, opening up huge sinkholes.

This is some Jules Verne shit right here.

s-o-u-t-h-o-f-h-e-a-v-e-n-69:

• Misfits - Astro Zombies

ktrkradio:

“Fascination Street” | The Cure

sunrec:

Joy Division - Day of the Lords (from Unknown Pleasures)