A moorland puddle, or an entrance to the underworld...
This is a trapdoor spider from the Foulden Maar fossil site in New Zealand. Spiders are incredibly rare as fossils but every now and then we get fantastic specimens (you can even see hairs on its legs!)
#FouldenMaarWeek #Paleontology https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325400960_Fossil_arachnids_from_the_earliest_Miocene_Foulden_Maar_Fossil-Lagerstatte_New_Zealand
Very pleased with this #print of the #simurgh, I had a lot of fun with the border and the integument of the simurgh. I think I'll do a cormorant or dinosaur in this style next.
#printmaking #linocut
#BOTD Arthur Machen. An author and occultist, Machen is a hugely influential figure in the development of weird fiction and folk horror. Stephen King described his story The Great God Pan as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language." Other works include The Three Imposters and The Bowmen, which created the legend of the Angel of Mons. #horror #arthurmachen #weirdfiction #folkhorror
Good to see that the #beavers 🦫 are thriving on the #RiverOtter in #Devon. Lots of signs of activity like this. Hopefully I’ll even get to see the elusive creatures one day.
One from a few weeks ago that I have only just come across. It was taken shortly after sunrise in Glastonbury. That sky!
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #sunrise #sunrisephotography
#orchids #Mosstodon Backyard surprise of purple orchid with squiggles of white against backdrop of lovely moss
Just checked a trailcam and found a photo of a pademelon on an invisible hoverbike.😂
#Tasmania #Pademelon #Marsupial #Flying #Hoverbike #Funnny #Trailcam
On behalf of scientists can I just say what a monumental fuck up this is.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64726522
🟢 Artist: #KenPlotBot - in City: 🤫 in somewhere 🤫 in #Berlin Germany 🇩🇪 - Title: ""Sektor 4"(📷 by gloryofdisrepair) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Dark #LostPlaces #Gasmask #Photography #Fotografie #Abandoned
Octopus by Ulisse Aldrovandi, Animali, vol 4,16th century. Watercolor. Collection: Universita di Bologna. #art #octopus #animals #collections
RT @PessoaBrain
Absolutely stunning 𝙣𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨-𝙖𝙧𝙢 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙪𝙨. Have to celebrate evolution once again!
Super short summary:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-octopus-arms-bypass-the-brain/
The actual paper is a beauty:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982222017638
(via @KanakaRajanPhD et al.)
An overcast day, but a sense of wide-open freedom against a backdrop of ancient glacial stone, scarred & roughly hewn into ground & hills.
A splash of whiskey in the flask of coffee & a thick wedge of birthday gingerbread by the clapper bridge over Austwick Beck. Another turn around the sun!
Biologist working in science publishing for 20+ years. Favourite reads: weird fiction; favourite walks: fern-clad lanes in Cornwall; favourite bands: currently King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Interested in terrariums, park runs, natural world and fiction writing.