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Temnoceran Lala Barina?

More like temnoceran Ner-skill-aaaaa!

now vs. 10 months ago, same pattern and same balls of yarn.

Someone captured the solar eclipse on an airplane

He's done :)

I'll never be able to get a picture as good as that first one (I tried)

Goosewyrm progress is going smoothly. He must have wings

sitting there making sure silly man eats his dinner

i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

ScienceAlert

Stunning Fossil Reveals Fireflies Glowed When Dinosaurs Ruled Earth

One of the most beautiful sights in the summer twilight is the gentle glow of fireflies lighting up the crepuscular gloom.

One of the most beautiful sights in the summer twilight is the gentle glow of fireflies lighting up the crepuscular gloom. These twinkling insects are the most abundant bioluminescent beetles, with roughly 2,500 species known around the world. Their glowing abdomens serve multiple purposes – but what we don't really have a good handle on is how this trait evolved. According to a team led by paleontologist Chenyang Cai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a firefly magnificently preserved for eons in golden amber may have some answers. Some 99 million years ago, Flammarionella hehaikuni was already lighting up the dusk, suggesting its ancestors had well-and-truly evolved their characteristic glowing butt by the Mesozoic.

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my beautiful boys

European Starling!