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Storm at Saturn's north pole

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

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A Curated List Of My Favorite Skeletons (and Skulls!)

We shall start, of course, with the obvious: Stringray!

Followed neatly by pufferfish!

gila monster skull (shh they are sleeping)

moving on to flamingos bc they have so little to work with but they stretch it so far

veiled chameleon skull (plus art by Elena Barbieri so you comprehend the importance of the sclerotic ring bone!) (bc some eyes have bones! some eyes have bones and that is so so valid)

love us a good old-fashioned mole

the tucan, always a fun classic

in conclusion, a few dainty gibbon skeletons to calm you soul, bc why the heck not <3

(yes the last one is a real vintage postcard sold in real Natural History Museum gift shops, before for some reason they reconsidered this marketing decision)

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The Lancetfish is a species that looks like it comes straight out of a realistic fantasy world building project.

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The tides of Europe

by mydriase

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And we thought we had some strong winds???

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John Pai Transforms Steel Into Delicate, Airy Sculptures

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Europe in 1180

by dodi_maps

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apparently one of the ways to say "shaved my head" in Japanese is "頭を坊主にした" which is literally something like "did the monk thing to my head"

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Azores, Portugal by giuliogroebert

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Apparently seals in Aberdeen have learned to climb onto a branch and rest there

Arboreal seals

I AM LOSING! IT!!

ARBOREAL SEALS

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Spanish maskers, Spain, by Ashley Suszczynski

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Long-tailed Widowbird (Euplectes progne), male, family Ploceidae, order Passeriformes, found in southern Africa

photograph by Peter Merritt (@biglenswildlife)

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