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"Rorqual whales capture much of their food by an extraordinary procedure known as lunge feeding. When a rorqual comes across prey, it accelerates through the water and open its mouth. As it does so, its mouth fills with water, suspended within which are the tiny animals that the whale wants. The amount of water that flows into the whale can more than double the creature’s weight, and to accommodate it, blubbery pleats under the lower jaw expand, just as an accordion grows as it fills with air."
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Pharyngeal jaws are a "second set" of jaws contained within an animal's throat, or pharynx, distinct from the primary (oral) jaws.
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Norfolk Nebraska clouds before the storm.... 4/14/2012
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Marta Motti mamatocumulus!! Wow...this is amazing.!!
Leah De Los Santos Is this forreal?? Very very nice!
Heather More nature's suspension
Scott Leeman Cool Clouds
Derek Johnson nice...
Cut into a Cabbage and you'll find a Fractal - Inside of a thin cross-section of wood stalk there is a circular Fractal
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Alex A. Kecskes Nature and its patterns.
Laura Power Wow - that is amazing. Love the colours too
Anna Sidorova This looks really beautiful, well-structured. Something to meditate on.
Julia Schlotel Oh how cool. Oh yes those lovely caulis, romano is it?
JAM Media Gorgeous
Weird Cnidarian, captured on video
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Will Rust Looks like a giant bin bag.
Rhonda Hicken Ewww
Carlos MAcDATO Es la placenta de una ballena..
Jenny Brunette And that is why I am scared of the ocean, we have no idea what's really in there. At a minute in, It kinda reminds me of a dementor from H.P lol
Mollie Greer Looks like a floating stomach
Outer Space by Sander van den Berg. The footage in this video is derived from image sequences from NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions.
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Adonis Blue Butterfly Egg
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JoAnna Coles amazing !
Trinity Koon wow
Bridget Kenney oh my god
Jennifer Denty that is incredible
Elva Espinal it's beautiful. I looks like a web cake.
Lamprey ~Petromyzon marinus ~Lampreys (sometimes also called lamprey eels) are a family of jawless fish, whose adults are characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth.While lampreys are well-known for those species which bore into the flesh of other fish to suck their blood, most species of lamprey are non-parasitic and never feed on other fish. In zoology, lampreys are sometimes not considered to be true fish because of their distinctive morphology and physiology. ✿
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Abel Coelho It's kind of nasty
Abel Coelho But it taste great ;)
Francie Murray ouch they attach to fish & you in lake Huron :(
Lucie Melahn DEAR GOD!!!
Kiah Jones Its beautiful-I can see a great print/pattern made from this pic
exploiting the seams between camera capture rates and vibrations of water
by brusspup
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Lesly Clarke-Matter I don't understand this but how crazy cool is this!
Peerzada Shaiq Nazir Mir dude how!!???
Ben Golder woah. That's amazing!
Rekha Patnaik amazing..
Delaney Grafius Whiskey tango foxtrot! Blinded by science.
Cloud Series, by Carolyn Marks Blackwood
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Teresa Hayes I love this
RG Riles Makes me think about Hawaii for some reason. Colors are spectacular.
Carol Watson Would make such a pretty card.
Ted Lee Beautiful
Arline Osuna Lovely and peaceful at the same time.
Glassfrog. They are amazing transparent frogs that are found in Central and South America. They are nocturnal and live in the tree canopy, rarely venturing low; although some do make their homes closer to the ground, living in the vegetation around small forest streams.
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Arna Cook Amazing. Glorious pieces of natural art.
Edward Pierz that is so beautiful, to bad their habitat is threatened. Maybe if people see more images like this there will be more of a public drive to end deforestation
Maryze Foust things like this is proof that only and awesome God could have created these intricate and complicated creatures..It could not have been accidental..
reflection of the Sun in a Brazilian river
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HE Brinkley Nice shot
Elva Espinal beautiful
Ierland, N-Ierland, Schotland, Engeland, Wales by André Kuipers
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John Wesley Lightening bugs perhaps!???
iSustainableEarth Hey kids... You left the hallway light on!
Edwin Garcia wooo
Pete Ross Love this.. amazing
Randheer Singh amazing
Bioluminescent Phytoplankton, Vaadhoo Island
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Pamela Diaz-Marlin This beautiful planet is naturally psychedilc.
Pamela Diaz-Marlin Wow. Amazing.
Hadi Mostafae is this real??!?!?!
MP3 Checkout Very Nice!
Alex A. Kecskes truly stunning
Plants are able to assess their environment by analyzing light, and are able to "remember" light they have experienced recently. By analyzing chemical reactions in leaves, scientists have come to appreciate that plants possess a kind of intelligence.
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Troy Scott I will be happy to move to a more appropriate forum to continue this discussion.
Carl Beckelheimer This is cool, but it's nothing new. Botanists have known for a long time that redder light, for example, promotes a positive response for blooming and producing fruit (sunlight is redder in the autumn). To call it intelligence seems like a stretch though, much like saying that I'm exhibiting intelligence when I shiver on a cold day. It's a useful biological response, but it's almost entirely automatic.
Troy Scott True, Carl. The type of intelligence described here is akin to light memory on the surface of a cathode ray tube. The difference being that the memory in a crt doesn't influence subsequent growth.
Tracy Lynn why can't people enjoy this cool pic and leave all your religion or lack there of out of it? We seriously could not care less about anything other than this COOL PIC.
Amanda Ramirez nice
landscape of mars (halos and sundogs formed from sunlight passing through crystals of ice in atmosphere)
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Amanda Ramirez osm
Mitch Lieberman Wow. That is an amazing photo!
Elva Espinal great photo....
MP3 Checkout Very Nice!
Alex A. Kecskes Truly incredible.
Lizard with wings in Indonesia
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Debbie Hampton i hope they stay there.
Liz Seburn @Shamilah perhaps lizards never stop growing and so if one lived to be old enough in a less polluted world, it could be a dragon... just a thought :)
Cristian Deliv Probably a fake...but if real..cool
Elva Espinal Can you say baby dragon....
Helmet Urchin, a.k.a. colobocentrotus atratus, Puako, Hawaii
by fishandfungi
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Ilene Rouamvongsor This is beautiful but yet kind of gross at the same time.
Michael Moake Beautiful.
Jason Parker It's a purple fingernail hat
Austin Milián Lovely.
Austin Milián It sort of reminds me of pomegranate.
"Mammatus clouds are most often associated with the anvil cloud and severe thunderstorms. They often extend from the base of a cumulonimbus, but may also be found under altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds, as well as volcanic ash clouds. When occurring in cumulonimbus, mammatus are often indicative of a particularly strong storm or perhaps even a tornadic storm."
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Leslie Emert Not photoshop... I saw similar clouds above the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina about 15 years ago. They ARE really freaky!
Jayne Hawkins Awe inspiring and totally scary !!!
biobabbler Woah, now that explains some similarly FREAKY clouds I shot at sunset one weird & stormy day. Thanks for the lead and amaz. photo!! =)
Elva Espinal it looks fake. Like that can't be real... wow
Susan August Seriously???
Clouds / Nuvole from Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli's Flickr stream via @binx
by magisstra
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Sarah Charbonneau La splendeur de la nature !
Priamo Toribio wow so beautiful!
Elva Espinal amazing!
Igneous rocks formed from lava flows of the Archaean era (>2,700 million years ago) are often found to contain disequilibrium-textured crystals characterized by spherulitic, branching or dendritic morphologies that occur in layers near the flow surface.
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PortugalConfidential Gorgeous. Nature is amazing.
Jay Raval Beautifully soothing dats wat nature IS !!
Chrissy Wilder I am going to paint those rocks !!!! Inspiration
Yusuf Akram So beautiful
Liz Gardner Nature makes the most beautiful things.
This is a rare meteorological phenomenon called a skypunch. When people see these, they think it's the end of the world. Ice crystals form above the high-altitude cirro-cumulo-stratus clouds, then fall downward, punching a hole in the cloud cover
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Ilene Book Nothing, well almost nothing in nature is that freaky, just interesting and curious.
Linda Sessoms How odd, I had never heard of this before.
Elva Espinal too cool
Nadine May I never seen it, but if I do I remember this photo
Jongwon Choi wow...
A huge crustacean has been found lurking 7km down in the waters off the coast of New Zealand. The creature - called a supergiant - is a type of amphipod, which are normally around 2-3cm long. But these beasts, discovered in the Kermadec Trench, were more than 10 times bigger: the largest found measured in at 34cm. / via @blprnt
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William Nulf I had the same reaction as Joshua Means! Growing up on the Oregon coast I am a firm believer that seafood is wonderful -- Oysters are my very favorite, but there are a lot of "close seconds".
Alfred Jessop Looks lke those crawling alien babies from Aliens.
Mary Lowery-nelson too funny! the guys are like EAT IT!!! We women are saying things like 'eek' or 'dang, why they gotta kill everything'.... maybe since this one made the ultimate sacrifice, they'll leave 'em alone and just post pix instead...
Amanda Ramirez wowwwwwwwww
Allison Van Eck Now that'll make some serious shrimp cocktail!
Why alcohol makes your head spin / We have tiny gyroscopes inside each ear that use the effect of gravity on little hairs submerged in fluid to determine our physical orientation.
by thegnome54
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In this Envisat image, acquired on 2 December 2011, a phytoplankton bloom swirls a figure-of-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands. Different types and quantities of phytoplankton exhibit different colours, such as the blues and greens in this image.
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Deanna Carlson Webb This is a really cool image.
Marilyn Cook Fascinating!
Elva Espinal it looks like a painting
Cloud Tree
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Laura Strait Thanks for the source. Although, I'm not sure for sure if it is original source on that website, but it is certainly used on that website. I had Googled "Cloud Tree" before and hadn't gotten near as good of results as you did, Bee! Thanks a ton!
Kat Kohler That's really cool
Livia Campetti Super cool!
Linda Sessoms A new spin on cloud pictures--I love it!
Heart strings (chordae tendineae in a human heart ventricle).
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Cayte (Cathy) Jablow @Rachel Franklin- Touchee! Bright Blessings from my heart strings. @Eric Carlson- I grok your view. It's mine with more details; which I do understand, tho have not studied. I too am disgusted by the creation of a pretty story to explain what is not yet understood. But it is how most people live their entire lives. People are afraid of the enormity, the complexity of Life. I use the word god/dess also. Because it is a point of reference, a starting point for a conversation. For me, however, humanity is for humans. What I'm referrring to by god/dess includes all the details of exisitence such as the laws of physics & evolution. I rant on "their" ignorance, how can you not. I mean Newt won SC! But this is Pinterest, not FB or G+ etc. And the "oooo, isnt this cool section" at that. I loved reading your piece up there. God/dess speaks to me when I hear shit like that: I want to know all that too. However, I would ask you to lighten the tone, it's a little condescending.
Cayte (Cathy) Jablow I would add that Pinterest is not a place for anger, for haters, or for people spoiling for a fight. Let's all give one another the benefit of the doubt & create a peaceful, nuetral environment to simply share here.
Robyn Kirby This is one of the many problems with humanity. No one wants to admit they may be wrong and they would comment back and forth on such a beautiful picture. If people could respect one another, the world would be an amazing place. Sadly, people will continue to shove beliefs down people's throats. Also, why is this picture on a board titled, "Nature Freaks Me Out Sometimes"? It's a beautiful picture...
Eric Carlson @Cathy Jablow and @Robyn Kriby You're right. I apologize for playing a part in hijacking this post. My comments were indeed condescending, and I won't pretend it was entirely unintentional. I am obviously passionate about this topic, but would never condemn anyone's beliefs and hope my comments reflect that stance. My problem isn't with others' beliefs, it's with the act of unnecessarily injecting them into a neutral forum like this, and then blindly defending them without reasonable evidence as backup. Doing so makes people with different religious beliefs (or no religious beliefs) feel bad about themselves. Non-believers are already the least trusted minority in America, so from our perspective doing this is essentially kicking us while we're down. I therefore hope you understand why I find it tiresome to formulate a response that doesn't sound condescending (and even condemnatory) when fundamental physical laws that are so important and, in this case, straightforward are misrepresented or subverted to support untestable hypotheses like the existence of a creator. This happens daily on the internet. When I entered this conversation I saw the following: 1. Excellent photo of a biological structure I never thought I'd ...
Madelyn Rueter ahhh! they look like theyre gonna snap!!
Found only on the islands of Oahu, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii, the happy face spider, such as this one guarding its eggs on a leaf in Maui, is known for the unique patterns that decorate its pale abdomen. / via @binx
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Chris Brophy I thought it was a spanish olive made to look like a spider at first!
SEpperson Nature's version of a tattoo?
Christie Baker ewwww creepy!
Anita Ghaemi Just read about thes in Michael Crichton's book Micro. LOTS of interesting bug stuff and much else. Fascinating reading.
Ilene Book Red warning but kind of missed the evolutionary mark. Goofy looking.
NationalZoo on Twitter: "Our American spiny lobster molted! It sheds its entire exoskeleton, including eye caps and gill linings, 2x a year." via sevensixfive
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Patsy McNeil Ewwwww
Kari Jacobsen-Ryan Ewwwwwwwww...But sooooooo cooooool =)
Giant isopod
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Michelle Hannan And they say the aliens haven't landed??!!
Wendy Romanik It's like a giant pill-bug.
Theresa Brake I love it, he's super cute to me with that little mean face but it looks like the poor guy lost a wisker.
Mike Ashton I want one in my Aquarium
Stephen Garner That is pretty freaking awesome.
In some ant species, some individuals can belong to a "supersoldier" subcaste instead, and these ants fight off predatory army ant species and bar their way by blocking off the entrances to the nest using their over-sized heads. Now, scientists have managed to create supersoldiers in other species by reactivating ancestral genes.
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.tif smith i wish i could like a comment. :) lol!
Julie Baymukhamedov Ants are already hard to get rid of.
Becky Star Ah, genetic modification. Totally ethically and not at all terrifying in its implications.
Pandora McCreless It is interesting how we can now manipulate the genes to create something different.
FoxxyLayday Damnit, they better NOT do this to fire ants. They already hurt enough.
Meet the Anomalocaris / The animals were about a meter long, and shaped as a flattened oval, a bit like a modern flounder. Instead of fins, the Anomalocarids propelled themselves through the water using a series of elongated paddle-like structures running down both edges of the body. In front, a pair of appendages could shovel prey into a circular mouth located on its underside. And then there were the large, bulging eyes, springing from each side of the animal's head. Until now, we could only guess at what the eyes looked like, but some spectacular, 515 million-year-old fossils from Australia have now shown that they had a huge number of small lenses, arranged much like those in modern insects and other arthropods.
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Devil's Flower Mantis
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Sue Reichardt Isn't Mother Nature wonderful?
Holly Sher what a perfectly gorgeous creature!
Grace Rodriguez This is THRILLER...Thriller Night! And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike...
Niamh Meier Geraghty Fantastic. Would die a million deaths if one popped up in my house but it's a beauty. Even doing the 'Thriller'
Rose Ann Colamartini Is this guy for real?
MRI of Lettuce, animated GIF, by Andy Ellison. This whole blog is amazing and gorgeous
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"With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking. The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it. Where the so-called "brinicle" met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish." So freaky!
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Dolphins surfing — this doesn't freak me out, this is just awesome
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Jessica Ball I love them :)
Annabelle Quezada Beautiful, awsome creatures, they move me so intensely...
Befremyhrt Dmt This is so Awesome...I could watch them all day long!!
Stacey Rich It is so cool that humans aren't the only animals that just do things for fun...
Elva Espinal I love dolphins!!!
The Steller's Sea Eagle, is on average, the heaviest eagle in the world, at about 11 to 20lbs
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MP3 Checkout Flying King!
Gunther von Hagens, acid-corrosion cast of the arteries of the adult human hand
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Justin Edmund this makes my stomach crawl and is fascinating at the same time. although I might just be watching too much House lately.
Ben Golder go img-src!
Anita W. I'm pretty sure the Bodies exhibition was one of the most fascinating exhibitions I've ever seen. Amazing!!!
Shan C-Moretti Fascinating!
Hunter Hale Amazing.
Ceramic Chargefree SE-image / electron microscope images via FEI via @Ben Golder
by FEI Company
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Octopus walks on land, is so amazing, freaks me out a bit / via @binx
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Daily Hints aargh!
Clare Seaton news article about the video: http://news.yahoo.com/...
Lisa Childers (Busch) I, for one, welcome our new octopus overlords.
Tabitha Pecoraro In the begining Cthulu was small...
Cayte (Cathy) Jablow does she breathe out of the water?
The diagonal blue stripe in this mountainous iceberg (rising 30 meters above the ocean’s surface) was created when the ice sheet filled with meltwater and froze so quickly that no bubbles formed. photo by Oyvind Tangen.
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Purple Octopus found off the coast of Newfoundland: 'We don't know what it is.' said a taxonomiost at the Bedford Institiue of Oceanography #Octopus #Purple_Octopus #Newfoundland
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Pippa Partington underwater cow?
johanna b. It's so cute! Can I have one?
Monica Boone its stinkin cute thats what it is
Jen Freeman looks like a dumbo octopus
Elva Espinal looks like a cow octopus...
"This model shows what a man's body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with its movement."
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Josh Draper therefore, brains are handy?
Nikkei Janssen shouldn't one hand be much smaller than the other?
"This model shows what a man's body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with its sensory perception."
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Om umm the penis should be bigger because it too is a disproportionately sensitive organ
Jane Wang Homunculus
Kayla Erickson @Romy I thought the same thing!
Rosemary Weiland ha.ha. Jane said humunculus. ha.ha.
Sha Hwang Here's an answer to that: http://accidentalmind....
American Alligator Claw - photo by Richard T. Bryant
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A murmation of Starlings
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Red Cage Fungus / thought this was a piece by @Jessica Rosenkrantz
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binx whoa
Allison Boroda Wow! That's actually biological? How neat!
Michelle Kelly Sacred Geometry!
Hunter Hale Neato!
nervous jessica this does look a lot like on of our Cell Cycle 2-layer rings!
Spotted Lake (Khiluk) is a salt alkali lake in British Columbia with high concentrations of magnesium sulfate, calcium and sodium sulfate as well as a number of other minerals and metals. As the water evaporates in the summer, dry spots of salt deposits appear, leaving natural walkways around the rims. #Spotted_Lake #British_Columbia #Geology #Geography #Khiluk
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For decades, paleontologists have puzzled over a fossil collection of nine Triassic icthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) discovered in Nevada's Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Researchers initially thought that this strange grouping of 45-foot-long marine reptiles had either died en masse from a poisonous plankton bloom or had become stranded in shallow water. But recent geological analysis of the fossil site indicates that the park was deep underwater when these shonisaurs swam the prehistoric seas. So why were their bones laid in such a bizarre pattern? A new theory suggests that a 100-foot-long cephalopod arranged these bones as a self-portrait after drowning the reptiles.
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binx @Ben Golder my favorite part of the article was when it proposed that the kraken arranged the vertebral disks to form a self-portrait.
Ben Golder @binx did you catch that the dude who wrote the article is a proponent of "Hypersea theory"? http://discovermagazin...
Ben Golder why can't he just say "shonisaurs were torn asunder by a cthulu-like organism (which became self-aware 250 million years ago and could still be alive since no fossils have been found) that recreated its own visage out of the bones of its victims ... preparing to sleeeep .... do not disturb the biserial patterns .... ancient puzzle ...."
Michal Migurski I’m here to report that Metafilter.com is also a popular source of internet-content.
biobabbler LOVE the name of this board, and TOTALLY AGREE. =) Cool stuff.
A picture of grey eaten by bacteria / Biographs by Caleb Charland / via @Michal Migurski
Fetching pins…
Amelia Hinchliffe it's how they swallow. the pharyngeal set pulls the food into the gullet.
Marena Hoskins I remember when I first pinned this! I know why they need it! Unlike most finish, this eel does not have the ability to create a vacuum when opening it's mouth to suck a fish into its body. This second jaw snatches the pray and pulls it in instead :D
Samoel Samoel Pitz Tits
Hanna Bodenhorn How intresting.
Jason Clauss How is it that nobody has said "Damn nature, you scary" yet?