A particularly epic reconstruction of Tusoteuthis (with a possibly mosasaur attacker)
ETA: it was made by 10TONS, a group of Denmark-based museum sculptors, which was founded by Esben Horn.
I saw a great documentary about these apartment blocks, there was a 89 year old women who was living in one. It was her family home when she was growing up, what an amazing place to grow up in!
This is a self portrait of Charles Baudelaire whilst under the influence of hashish…circa 1844
Court Jewellers for King Frederick I of Prussia. Frame of the crown of King Frederick I of Prussia. 1700.
Gold, surmounted by a gem globe with a cross (the original crown was inlaid with large diamonds and pearls).
Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, Deutschland.
Ondrej Pakan takes macro photos of insects, often covered in dew. It’s a bug’s eye view, and it’s the best gallery you’ll see on the internet today.
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
“No, this isn’t a make-believe place. It’s real.
They call it “Ball’s Pyramid.” It’s what’s left of an old volcano that emerged from the sea about 7 million years ago. A British naval officer named Ball was the first European to see it in 1788. It sits off Australia, in the South Pacific. It is extremely narrow, 1,844 feet high, and it sits alone.
What’s more, for years this place had a secret. At 225 feet above sea level, hanging on the rock surface, there is a small, spindly little bush, and under that bush, a few years ago, two climbers, working in the dark, found something totally improbable hiding in the soil below. How it got there, we still don’t know.
A satellite view of Ball’s Pyramid in the Tasman Sea off the eastern coast of Australia.
Here’s the story: About 13 miles from this spindle of rock, there’s a bigger island, called Lord Howe Island.
On Lord Howe, there used to be an insect, famous for being big. It’s a stick insect, a critter that masquerades as a piece of wood, and the Lord Howe Island version was so large — as big as a human hand — that the Europeans labeled it a “tree lobster” because of its size and hard, lobsterlike exoskeleton. It was 12 centimeters long and the heaviest flightless stick insect in the world. Local fishermen used to put them on fishing hooks and use them as bait.”
For all of you who don’t like insect, here’s something else to fear.
