somuchscience:

Partially leucistic Great Blue Heron at Celilo Park, Oregon

Photographed by Dennis Paulson, June 9, 2013

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we-are-never-leaving:

richard-sp8-jr:

bakerstreetsdoctor:

vbartilucci:

wejustkeepbiggering:

mickeyrenee:

Holy mother of interior design.. Give me.

I
WANT
THIS
BED

It’s a bed…with a ladder!

GIVE IT TO ME NOW OH MY GOD

i have a might need for this

“it’s a bed with a ladder”… have you never seen a bunk bed before??

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thebrainscoop:

osteocentric:

Cow mandible with honeycomb network of abcesses from actinomycosis infection. Actinomyces bovis is a gram-positive bacteria that leads to granulomatous abcessing of infected areas of the head and neck in cattle which can destroy bone. A related bacterium A. israelii causes a simillar but more rare condition in humans. In cattle the condition is referred to as “lumpy jaw.” Untreated, the infection will produce copious amounts of pus which discharges from the skin. Actinomyces were one thought to be a fungus because of their branching filamentous structures.

I have never seen such an extreme case of lumpy jaw - I photographed some instances of mandibular osteomyelitis last November [see that post here], but our Ovis species are nowhere near this severe! Truly unbelievable that an animal could continue to live an eat with this incredibly dramatic infection in its face. 

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rebeccas:

Snakes With Hats is definitely my new favorite website.

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coelasquid:

budgie fort no girls allowed

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mynameismad:

nybg:

As I was scrolling through the “botanical garden” tag, I stopped about halfway down on this photograph to admire what I thought was the pattern in the fabric of what I imagined was a handmade cactus from a seller on Etsy. When I got to the bottom I was shocked to see that it was a real plant. Isn’t it beautiful?

This plant is Euphorbia obesa, a succulent from southern Africa, at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is a relatively new botanical garden, having opened in just 1995, and looks like an incredible place to visit. ~AR

I have three of these! But they’re smaller, pretty much golf-ball sized.

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uncommoncivility:

No one can ever really escape Javert. #lesmiserables

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