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ainawgsd:

Jalak Bali

The Bali myna is a medium-large bird, almost wholly white with a long, drooping crest, black wing-tips and tail tip. It has a yellow bill with blue bare skin around the eyes and legs. The Bali myna is restricted to the island of Bali in Indonesia, where it is the island’s only endemic vertebrate species.  The bird was discovered in 1910, and in 1991 was designated the faunal emblem of Bali, its local name is jalak Bali.

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usgsbiml:

What, not enough Wing Bling our Carpenter Bee friends?  Well check this out, Pilgrim, …. from Thailand.  Another Xylocopa specimen found lounging around the Packer Lab.  

So…did you know that Xylocopa lay the worlds largest insect egg?  

No, you did not.

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justice-turtle:

2000’s Twilight Outfit and Accessories. Possibly the most 2000 thing to ever 2000. There’s also a holofoil Twilight Accessories box, which I forgot to fit in the picture but which is included and only very slightly dinged up. The purse has a seam and a small edge of the shiny cover fabric coming unglued, but other than that everything is in pristine shape. Asking $30 plus shipping.

I really wish I liked this better. It’s a lovely, high-quality, well-made outfit! …of the style literally every girl in my youth group but me was wearing to Christmas mass that winter. Too many associations. :P

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theyrecirclin:

I needle-felted a Spinosaurus! He’s a gift for one of my lecturers. He took around a week to make over the course of two or three months. I used a wire armature, so you can move him pretty much any way you want! I’m definitely thinking of taking commissions/setting up a shop once the academic year’s over.

When the weather improves, I’ll take him outside for a more naturalistic photo shoot.

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