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Practices motifs carved into animal bone from Roestown, Co. Meath, Ireland Early Medieval in date 

(Photo John Sunderland)

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^ for the unaware

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"A 4,000-year-old human rib with an arrowhead embedded in it was found during excavations at the Roc de les Orenetes archaeological site in northeastern Spain. The arrow was thought to have been shot from behind, but it did not kill the person — the bone has healed around the arrowhead. This finding hints at violence between ancient humans in the Pyrenees during the Early Bronze Age. Researchers plan to X-ray the rib, and perform chemical and DNA analyses to find out more about the people buried at this site."

Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA

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Looking like 👁️ 👄 👁️

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“These are the eyes of a Strawberry Conch (Conomurex luhuanus). They inhabit the shallow tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef and feed on algae and detritus.” © Lawrence Scheele

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Opossum skeleton I've been articulating

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US artist Christina Bothwell creates sculptures focusing on mythology, lucid dreams and the concept of the soul

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stoned and autistic at a party trying to make conversation: I find the comparative lifespan of organisms so interesting. Spiders are comparatively long lived animals. Female black widows can live up to 3 years but their male counterparts rarely live four months. Some tarantulas live upwards of 20 years. The longest lived spider was around 43 years old when she was cruelly assassinated by a parasitic wasp. Domestic rats have a lifespan comparable to female black widows. To put things into perspective, there are spiders that remember a pre-pandemic world but it is likely every rat on earth was born post-COVID. There could be a spider out there born when Reagan was in office.

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My 1/12th scale frames are now on Etsy! Yay!

(You can find them here)

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some little ceramic dishes and a vase from this month! (all sold!) 🍃

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Three-headed deer necklace 'Align with your Divine' by Amy Overby / Third Born jewelry

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Fragments of the spectacular marine mosaics from the baths of a Roman townhouse excavated on Via Panisperna in 1888.

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amethyst sage agate

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this doesn't seem to be widespread knowledge around here yet but there's a big trend among dogshit content scraper accounts to grab a real photo (usually of ✨Aesthetic Nature™✨ or something similar, which is why it's relevant to me) somewhere, and recreate it using AI to avoid crediting the photographer. this can even trick people who are somewhat familiar with the subject matter if they're not paying attention but looks incredibly wrong upon closer inspection

here is some complete garbage as an example. because these "photos" are not completely made up by AI, people into spiders know the species and will recognize their features without looking closely, getting tricked in the process. if you know spider anatomy and look closely though, both of those look like utter abominations. the original photos these two were based on are here and here, by the way

these just so happen to be things i'm familiar with and i would probably get easily fooled by AI recreations of plants or fish or whatever. my point is that if you're not an expert on everything that exists you're not immune to these, so i would probably recommend caring about photo sources unless you actively want to look at this repulsive trash

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my dream garden <3