It’s called the border between heaven and earth .
Reblogging because beautiful deserves beautiful name.
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A tongue of lava oozes out from beneath the recently cooled crust of a flow. The silica contained within, reflects the early morning sunlight, giving its surface a glassy sheen.
Photo and caption credit: Bruce Omori
A part of me wants to touch it it’s so pretty… But then the rational side of my brain smacks that part of me with a baseball bat.
Well in all fairness you’d probably burn yourself before you managed to touch it.
it looks like a skein of silk <3
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Opalized wood. Petrified wood is basically fossilized wood that has had it’s organic matter replaced by a mineral such as agate, bit by bit, as it decomposes. The wood structure is maintained, but the wood fibers are slowly changed into stone. Sometimes a jasper, quartz, pyrite or even opal(shown above) can be found fossilized in wood.
poupon i have something to show you
goatprince
ur beautiful
Oh my. Opals…..opals are one of my favorite things.
I actually saw someone making bowls/decorations out of wood like this at the Tucson Gem Show, although it was man made and not fossilized. A similar look, though, and very very beautiful.
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Living Rainbow: Rainbow Eucalyptus, Most Beautiful Tree Bark on Earth
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This Poison Dart Frog reminds me of Boulder Opals
LYRIUM GHOST FROG.
HE TRIED TO ESCAPE
FUCK THE OCEAN
I’M A BIRD MOTHAFUCK- OH SHIT
be like gentle joe and follow your dreams
That landing had to sting
Somewhere, over the rainbow,
Ray up high…
Stingray.
Go home.
You’re drunk.
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“Dr. Mohamed Babu of Mysore, South India, noticed something strange about the ants scurrying around on the floor of his kitchen: after drinking some spilled milk, their abdomens turned white. Realizing the insects’ bodies were transparent, he got an idea for a stunning set of photographs.
Mixing different varieties of food coloring along with sugar, water and a waxy base, he set out small droplets of liquid on a white plastic sheet outside in his garden and let the ants do the rest.
‘As the ant’s abdomen is semi-transparent, the ants gain the colors as they sip the liquid,’ he said.
Striving to get the best possible photos, Babu ran into an unexpected problem: too many ants. ‘I really toiled to get a photo. The crowd always used to become unmanageable within a few minutes and while I managed my camera with my right hand, my left hand was busy removing the extra ants.’ After a number of repeated attempts, he finally got the photos he was looking for.
‘Curiously, the ants preferred light colors—yellow and green. The darker green and blue drops had no takers, until there was no space around the preferred yellow and green drops.’ Some of the ants even wandered between the colors, creating unique mixtures of different hues inside their own stomachs.”
(Source: likeafieldmouse, via wellthatsood)
swoz:
Deep in the rainforests of the Indian state of Meghalaya, bridges are not built, they’re grown. For more than 500 years locals have guided roots and vines from the native Ficus Elastica (rubber tree) across rivers, using hollowed out trees to create root guidance systems. When the roots and vines reach the opposite bank they are allowed to take root. Some of the bridges are over 100 feet long and can support the weight of 50 people.
Meanwhile, elves.
“Meanwhile, elves,” had me rolling on the floor laughing
For anyone who only sees gender and sex in black and white, here’s proof by the lovely humon that nature is just as fluid with representations of gender and sex as we are.
love this. The cuttlefish mating one blew my mind!
these need to be turned into pamphlets and handed out to people.
for serious.
SERIOUS.
I love cuttlefish mating. Brilliant. @ksej and I are more in the position of the seahorses, though.
This is so adorable.
Fuzzy might like this if she’s yet to see it.
ya know me well :>
It’s Humon, but it’s fascinating. … And adorable.
I like this. I like this a lot.
Researching goes a long way and can make all the difference in a good and frankly very cutely interesting image :T <3
Very cool.
love it, science ftw!
I love all of these.
