fletchpj @fletchpj@qoto.org

330 million year old perfection - a wee crinoid ossicle that beautifully highlights their five-fold (pentaradial) symmetry. There’s also a tiny fragment of bryozoan in the bottom right 🖤
#ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology #Palaeontology

Photographer Renatas Jakaitis captured this unintended moment when three fallow-deer were walking along a path and the sound of her camera caught their attention. Like an optical illusion, the deer appeared as one body with three almost identical heads.

I have a dilemma, should I #hashtag this for #FungiFriday or #FrostyFriday or #FrostyFungiFriday ?

Meadow Waxcaps - Cuphophyllus pratensis #fungi #photo #photography #friday

Friday Flyday! Here’s a bee-mimicking robber fly (Laphria) feeding on a honey bee it has killed.

#FridayFlyday #Diptera #nature #insects

No matter our differences, we can all try to get along...

#Heron #kingfisher #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #birds #birdphotography

In honour of tonight's gorgeous #FullMoon, here is one of my favourite Japanese #ukiyoe prints: 'Bat Before the Moon' - Biho Takashi, 1910.
#JapaneseArt #japodon #bat #moon

🌳Artist: #DoraIllustra + #murallstudio in City: #Poznan #Jeżyce Wawrzyniaka /Słowackiego, Poland 🇵🇱 - (📷 by murallstudio) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Graffiti #Artwork

2-million yr-old #DNA from N #Greenland reveals that the region was once home to #mastodons, lemmings, hares & geese. The breakthrough pushes the DNA record back by 1m years to when the #Arctic region was 11-19C warmer than today, with flower-filled grassy #glades & #forests of poplar & birch, & offers unprecedented insights into how climate changes can shape ecosystems.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/07/dna-from-2m-years-ago-reveals-lost-arctic-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In Ainu folklore akkorokamui is a red octopus so huge it can swallow ships whole. Its bright red body turns the ocean red and ships know to avoid the sea during this time. This #yokai was both feared and revered as a god.
#DailyFolklore #JapaneseFolklore #japodon #ukiyoe #folklore @folklore
🎨1. Matthew Meyer
2. Utagawa Hiroshige

Good morning and Happy #wednesday Today’s #cloud #photo I took at Cley-next-the-sea as the #marsh samphire turned red for #autumn Throughout the year this #nature reserve teems with life and wildlife interest

🔌Artist: #FALKO1graffiti in City: #Kapstadt South Africa 🇿🇦 - Title: "All we want for Xmas is Electricity" -
#Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Graffiti #Artwork

One of nature's most incredible sights...

#kingfisher #bird #birds #nature #wildlofe #ukbirds #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #nikon #birdphotography #birdwatching

Kirkjufellfoss, #Iceland 🌈

I left Reykjavik early morning and headed 3 hours north to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula to shoot Kirkjufell.
We arrived at the famous peak. It was a downpour. My heart sank. Exhausted and still to early to go eat dinner, I took a nap in the car for “a few minutes.” A few minutes turned into an hour.
As I slept, the sun had come out behind me and woke me up. I turned and looked at Kirkjufell. My jaw dropped. Rainbow over Kirkjufell!
#Fotomontag #photography #rainbow

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a wish-granting #yokai that resides in dolls & is known as hinnagami. They are created by a complex magical ritual of collecting earth from graves, shaping it into a doll & then leaving it on the roadside to be trampled by 1000 people. Although they grant their owner any wish, they will demand another wish is made each time & the process continues forever. Even after death, the hinnagami will continue to haunt its creator.
https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/05/hinnagami-yokai.html?spref=tw&m=1
#folklore #japodon

Midmar Kirk Recumbent Stone Circle for #StandingStoneSunday #Aberdeenshire #Scotland

For us, #GothicAdvent is inspired by all those seasonal tales shot through with tragedy, or featuring otherworldly elements.

If your heart doesn't break a little at this HC Andersen tale, you're already dead inside. 🖤🎄

'The Little Match Seller' (1902) dir. James Williamson.