Bearing a large bony frill, three horns on the skull, and a large, four-legged body, exhibiting convergent evolution with bovines and rhinoceroses, Triceratops is one of the most recognizable of all dinosaurs and the best-known ceratopsian....
One of the hundreds of elongated skulls that were discovered in 1928 at Paracas Peninsula in Peru. Cranial deformation was practiced by the Paracas civilization (800-100 BCE) by tightly wrapping the head in cloth, during the first few years of life, in order to elongate the cranium
Our Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system. It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star. Without the Sun’s energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet....
Ruyi Bridge (如意桥 - Rúyì qiáo) is a footbridge in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, made up of three bridges. It is a pedestrian bridge which was built to cross the Shenxianju Valley and it features a glass-bottomed walkway. The unusual curved walkways are designed to look like a Chinese ruyi (a kind of scepter).
WoodSwimmer is a new short film by engineer and stop-motion animator Brett Foxwell, who has built armatures for films such as Boxtrolls and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Created in collaboration with musician and animator bedtimes, the work follows a piece of raw wood through a milling machine, capturing its unique growth rings,...
The Bonsai in the picture is a 3.5 mt (10 feet) Ficus retusa linn that’s over 1000 years old. It is also known as the Crespi Ficus, because it is exhibited at the entrance of the Crespi Bonsai Museum in Milan, Italy. The owner of this museum, Luigi Crespi, fought for decades for this unique Bonsai tree, and finally got...
Polydactyly or polydactylism (from Greek πολύς (polys) ‘many’, and δάκτυλος (daktylos) ‘finger’), also known as hyperdactyly, is an anomaly in humans and animals resulting in supernumerary fingers and/or toes.
The armor now resides at a museum called the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. The museum consists of collected artifacts and the private art of the Menil family.
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An intraventricular fetus-in-fetu, a malformed monochorionic diamniotic twin, was identified in a 1-year-old girl with motor delay and enlarged head circumference (Figure 1). After surgical removal, whole-genome sequencing revealed identical single-nucleotide variants in the host child and fetus-in-fetu, with extensive de novo...
A Triceratops femur (left) compared to that of an African elephant (right) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Bearing a large bony frill, three horns on the skull, and a large, four-legged body, exhibiting convergent evolution with bovines and rhinoceroses, Triceratops is one of the most recognizable of all dinosaurs and the best-known ceratopsian....
Saiga antelops look otherworldly (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/a432c399-a61c-4e8f-b94d-8b6a330073c0.jpeg...
Switched my Parents to Linux
I’m visiting my parents for the holidays and convinced them to let me switch them to Linux....
Biblically accurate angels (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
You've been instantly teleported two feet to the left. How does this affect you?
What is a video game that you'd love to play, but no one has developed yet?
Hundreds of elongated skulls found in Perù (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
One of the hundreds of elongated skulls that were discovered in 1928 at Paracas Peninsula in Peru. Cranial deformation was practiced by the Paracas civilization (800-100 BCE) by tightly wrapping the head in cloth, during the first few years of life, in order to elongate the cranium
Study finds coffee inhibits SARS-CoV-2 (cellandbioscience.biomedcentral.com)
The astonishing beauty of the Sun (files.catbox.moe)
Our Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system. It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star. Without the Sun’s energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet....
Fishing with meat (files.catbox.moe)
I changed the tags on my mother's herb jars.
She hasn’t noticed yet, but the thyme is cumin.
NOTHING LIKE CRANKIN YUOR HOG AT 4AM IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD!!! (lemmy.world)
The surreal Ruyi Bridge in the city of Taizhou, Zhejiang, China (files.catbox.moe)
Ruyi Bridge (如意桥 - Rúyì qiáo) is a footbridge in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, made up of three bridges. It is a pedestrian bridge which was built to cross the Shenxianju Valley and it features a glass-bottomed walkway. The unusual curved walkways are designed to look like a Chinese ruyi (a kind of scepter).
Abuna Yemata Guh, the church in the mountain (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5f4356e2-fe22-41a6-8983-7364addbc903.jpeg...
NASA rover finds strange dragon bone-looking Mars rocks (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
On April 1 2023 NASA’s Curiosity rover uncovered a bizarre-looking rock formation, a images of what closely resembles dragon bones....
Ever heard of Argentavis Magnificens? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
A journey through wood (files.catbox.moe)
WoodSwimmer is a new short film by engineer and stop-motion animator Brett Foxwell, who has built armatures for films such as Boxtrolls and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Created in collaboration with musician and animator bedtimes, the work follows a piece of raw wood through a milling machine, capturing its unique growth rings,...
Oldest bonsai in the world
The Bonsai in the picture is a 3.5 mt (10 feet) Ficus retusa linn that’s over 1000 years old. It is also known as the Crespi Ficus, because it is exhibited at the entrance of the Crespi Bonsai Museum in Milan, Italy. The owner of this museum, Luigi Crespi, fought for decades for this unique Bonsai tree, and finally got...
UPenn slammed for celebrating Nobel prize of vaccine researcher it once demoted (www.independent.co.uk)
Husky and grey wolf comparison (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/99e1dace-a9be-4721-9244-cb881b17a2f7.jpeg
Two damselflies peeping through a leaf (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Photographer: Alberto Ghizzi Panizza
"Dante's hell under Mont Saint Michel", Pierre Ionica (Grand-Père 59) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6018317...
Polydactyly (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Polydactyly or polydactylism (from Greek πολύς (polys) ‘many’, and δάκτυλος (daktylos) ‘finger’), also known as hyperdactyly, is an anomaly in humans and animals resulting in supernumerary fingers and/or toes.
This creepy street light in Wroclaw, Poland (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Bear-hunting suit from the 1800s (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The armor now resides at a museum called the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. The museum consists of collected artifacts and the private art of the Menil family.
The proverbial “Eye of the Storm” seen from space (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
What a typhoon looks like from space (Typhoon Trami, 2018)....
really strong crow (twitter.com)
I knew they were smart. I didn’t know they were this strong.
The original Michelin Man (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/69c837bb-2cfe-4918-bcab-e508307f450a.jpeg...
The moment when a navy fighter jet broke the sound barrier (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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didn't know snake could fish (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Parasitic twin removed from the brain of a 1 year old girl (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
An intraventricular fetus-in-fetu, a malformed monochorionic diamniotic twin, was identified in a 1-year-old girl with motor delay and enlarged head circumference (Figure 1). After surgical removal, whole-genome sequencing revealed identical single-nucleotide variants in the host child and fetus-in-fetu, with extensive de novo...