“The State Of  Archaeology”

What is your favorite deep ocean fish?

It’s impossible to choose because there are so many great ones! Here are a few:

deep sea anglerfish

barreleye fish

ghost shark

sumer is the earliest known civilization that had to do it to us

it’s really not as bad as you might think!

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

“[…] all things are one thing and that one thing is all things—plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time.” — Ricketts and Steinbeck, The Log From The Sea Of Cortez

"When Shelley's corpse washed ashore, a friend identified it by a copy of Keats's 1820 volume in the coat pocket, which he knew Shelley had taken with him. Then, after cremation in which Shelley's heart, hardened by calcium, did not burn, this same friend snatched it from the embers and presented it to Mary Shelley, who kept it thereafter in her desk, wrapped in a copy of 'Adonais."

Here’s your morbid literary fact of the day.

From a 9th century Irish manuscript, the phrase ‘massive hangover’ (Latheirt) written in the ancient Irish text Ogham. The monk must have been having a very rough day…..

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Something for my dad from the nature trade - a piece of Precambrian-era petrified wood! I thought he would enjoy it and he does, it’s a truly lovely little piece.

When you’re an umbrella jelly but you can never be dry 😓 

But they never stop trying 💪

This cheery little butterflyfish has a big job. He’s charged with snacking on tiny nuisance aiptasia anemones that crop up on the rocks in the cuttlefish exhibit. Note: this little guy is very good at its job! 

Sunset on Mars