malformalady:

The Atolla jellyfish(Atolla wyvillei) also known as the Coronate medusa, is a species of deep-sea crown jellyfish. It typically has 22 marginal tentacles and one hypertrophied tentacle which is larger than the rest.This long trailing tentacle is thought to facilitate prey capture. This species is bioluminescent. When attacked, it will launch a series of flashes, whose function is to draw predators who will be more interested in the attacker than itself. This has earned the animal the nickname “alarm jellyfish”

Photo credit: Michal Aw

It looks like a space ship

i-am-lauren:

Blunt headed tree snakes, a genus of colubrid snakes found in Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America.

japan-o-phile:

plus sized girls  are so fucking cute like goddamn keep being cute plus sized girls

super skinny people are also super adorable

and average girls 

goddamn everyone is adorable, LOVE YOSELVES 

rhamphotheca:

Amazonian Treasure Trove Yields 15 New Bird Species

by Nadia Drake

The Amazon rainforest, a well-known epicenter of biodiversity, has offered up another trove of riches. The treasure takes the form of 15 newly described bird species. Some are tiny. One has a long, curved bill. Another is super fluffy. All live in the southern Amazon, most of them in an area known as the “arc of deforestation.”

It’s been 140 years since as many new Brazilian bird species were described at one time. In 1871, 40 new species were described by Austrian August von Pelzeln in Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens.

Discovered mostly within the last five years, in southern swaths of forest, many of the birds live near rivers. Eleven can only be found in Brazil; four of the species have also been seen in Peru and Bolivia. Most are Passeriformes, belonging to an order that includes ravens, sparrows, and finches.

They were spotted on various expeditions that included ornithologist Luis Silveira, of the University of São Paulo, and his students, as well as collaborators from three additional institutions. Together, they noticed that these strange new birds didn’t quite fit in…

(read more: Wired Science)         (photos: Vitor de Q. Piacentini)

This is fabulous.

malformalady:

Albino fawn

Photo credit: Tom Dorsey

im bad at coloring

2punk:

Fluffy White Chickens like this cost between 10 and 25 dollars. Just buy one. You don’t have to wait for the affirmation of 500,000 notes on tumblr.