Wild Cherry Trees In Nara Moutains, Breathtaking Pictures Seen On

an entertaining thing to do would be to replace every instance of “for ritual purposes” in any archeology article with “for funsies”

This 110 million-year-old, armored plant-eater is the best preserved fossil of its kind ever found.

From the article:

The more I look at it, the more mind-boggling it becomes. Fossilized remnants of skin still cover the bumpy armor plates dotting the animal’s skull. Its right forefoot lies by its side, its five digits splayed upward. I can count the scales on its sole. Caleb Brown, a postdoctoral researcher at the museum, grins at my astonishment. “We don’t just have a skeleton,” he tells me later. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”

Read more on Michael Greshko’s (beautifully written) article at National Geographic. Photos by Robert Clark.

Celestial Mapping and Celestial Proportions by Tallmadge Doyle

by Denny Bitte

Landscape Photography Matches Its Environment by  Toshio Shibata

“Let the Bodies Hit The Floor” and “Its Raining Men” are about the same event but from drastically different points of view.

from which comes life

by Denny Bitte

The Worlds of our Solar System

The Seattle con season has just started...

If you’re suffering from post-con depression (like we are), there’s hope! Here’s a list of other awesome cons in the Seattle area that might be of interest to you:

Norwescon (April 2-5, 2015) norwescon

Sakura-Con (April 3-5, 2015) sakuracon

Shatterdome Seattle (May 3, 2015) shatterdomeseattle

PAX Prime (Late August)

BrickCon (October 3-4, 2015)

GeekGirlCon (October 10-11, 2015) geekgirlcon

Short Run Comix & Art Festival (October 31, 2015)

Jet City Comic Show (Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2015) shortrunseattle

Sherlock Seattle (was Jan 9-11, 2015) sherlock-seattle

Let us know if we’ve missed any and we’ll add them to the list!