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Devil’s Bridge, Worm’s Head island, Rhossili, Wales by Deborah Smith

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Germany 🇩🇪

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Do you think Valentine’s Day stinks? Then we’ve got the perfect flower for you! The largest flower in the world, the stinking corpse lily (Rafflesia arnoldi), may look beautiful—but it smells like rotten flesh. The pungent aroma is meant to attract carrion flies, which spread its pollen from flower to flower and help this South Asian rainforest plant reproduce. The parasitic corpse flower has no stem, leaves, or roots. Instead of using energy from the Sun to make nutrients, it draws all of its nourishment from its host, a species of vine in the grape family.

Photo: Maizal Chaniago, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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Paul Klee

Unstable Equilibrium

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On National Poop Day, we share ancient poop! Can you guess which animal made this well-preserved mess? A giant ground sloth! This specimen was found in Mylodon Cave in Chile. Bones of giant ground sloths have been found near those of early humans, hinting that ground sloths and early humans used the same caves, though not necessarily at the same time.

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Henri Michaux, Par surprise, Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1983, Edition of 75 [Librairie Koegu, Bayonne. Art: © Henri Michaux / ADAGP, Paris]

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Weighing in at 15 lbs (7 kg), Demarest’s hutia (Capromys pilorides) is the largest living endemic mammal in Cuba—meaning it lives only on the island. It moves with a waddling gait, and when threatened, can hop to quickly escape foes. This critter is an omnivore with a diet that includes fruit, leaves, tree bark, and small animals.

Photo: kbakkegard, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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by Joan Mitchell, 1977

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Orson Welles by Cecil Beaton for Vogue in 1942

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by Franz Kline, 1957

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Decorate Oblivion

2025

Noak Esbjörnsson

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Elisa Jensen (American, b. 1965, based Brooklyn, NY, USA) - March Evening, 2021, Paintings: Oil on wood Panel

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