You'd Break Your Neck To Keep Your Chin Up

whileiexist:

Back to this guy (Taken with Instagram at Power’s English Class)

Baby elephant enjoys the beach.

(Source: norbertnews, via beautifulsomewhere)

moethelawn:

Husky puppy knocked out

HAHAH OMG. dubbbs, gooo huskies!!

ohscience:

Axolotl

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/ubercool-mexican-walking-fish-nearing-extinction.html

(submission from burroughswilliam)

he’s smiling!

bluntlyobvious:

Hai there

archiemcphee:

The Porcupineapple

Another one of South African illustrator Rob Foote’s awesome illustrations for his colour pencil series entitled: SaMpLeS FrOm ThE LaB. Somehow his food/animal hybrids make perfectly twisted sense.

ohscience:

TRIGGER WARNING: SPIDERS

The thick zigzags in this spider web are called stabilimenta. Many spiders make a web in the evening and take it down at dawn, but spiders who have stabilimenta in their webs can successfully keep the webs up all day long. The zigzags are like warning signs to birds that say, “Watch out! Spider web here!” A bird obviously would not want to crash into a spider web anymore than you would, so when it sees the warning sign it performs evasive action. Webs without stabilimenta often do not survive the day, even if the spider leaves the web up. The stabilimenta cost a lot of energy to create, but they are worth the investment because more often than not they save the web from being accidentally destroyed by birds.

At least, this is one theory for their purpose; there is evidence to support other ideas as well.

This species is Argiope argentata. Photo taken in Atahualpa, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.

reference: J. Kricher, A Neotropical Companion (Princeton University Press, Princeton, ed. 2, 1997)

photo credit: me

(submission from wandering-nature)

Spiders are kind of gross/creepy but this is actually awesome.

pppiiggggggggyyyy!!!!

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(via fuckyeahredpandas)

OMG!

liveinjusttoday:

And this is Bev’s painting! She asked for a shark in a Phillies shirt. Instead, I gave her 5 different types of sharks! Wearing Phillies shirts! Mako sharks are insanely scary, btw.

My friend Karen > Your friend Karen [unless we are talking about the same Karen]. Seriously, look at this amazing spectacle she painted! I cannot get over how outrageously high the cool factor is on this.