What if you were friends with some weird alien and it didn’t wear any type of clothes and you just figured it didn’t come from a culture that wore clothes but then you finally visited its planet and they’re all totally dressed how would you feel
This is the coolest video you’ll see today—gorgeous time-lapse of bug-eating plants growing and consuming their prey.
While you may have only heard of a few types of carnivorous plant, like the famous Venus flytrap, there are actually around 600 species of these guys worldwide, with a bunch of different feeding strategies.
On a personal note, this year for Mother’s Day I bought my mom a pitcher plant—another common carnivorous plant. She loved it. Clearly we are related.
Speaking of worms, my mind is still completely blown by Syllis ramosa, the polychaete annelid with a branching body. It lives only inside sea sponges, growing all through the sponge pores, and its anatomy is like a reverse hydra: one head, many butts.
Many MANY butts.
There is no known limit on how many butts this animal can have.
They’ve been recorded with butts in the thousands and probably just keep on growing them with the sponge host.
Lifelike reconstruction of a Neanderthal man – Neanderthal museum, Mettmann, Germany
Well you see, Garry, you really can’t top napped obsidian. I know the anatomically modern humans are doing some interesting things with bone, but what you got here is durability, a sleek, user-serviceable design, and an edge that just won’t quit.
In the Socorro Islands, the collision of cold and warm currents causes swirling vortexes of bubbles to form. Pufferfish, being weak swimmers, are trapped by the suction.
A Pallid Bat (Antrozous pallidus) trapped by mist-net , and released, as part of a zoological survey by Sacramento City College in the Mojave Desert of California.
“RELEASE ME HUMAN! I’LL KILL YOU, I’LL KILL YOU ALLLLL!!!”
EY FATTY BOOM BOOM 