Atlas on bark, Jasius/GettyImages
Wing tips looking like red reptilian heads
Did you know, the Atlas moth, the largest insect living in Hong Kong, in Cantonese (蛇頭蛾) translates as "snakehead butterfly", given its characteristic cobra-like eyespot & batesian mimicry. It looks very dissapointed.
Note to self: reading any kpop post on reddit* titled "An Honest Opinion of [Thing]" is a Bad Idea, because there is a nonzero chance it'll veer into weird racism.
* Yes, I realize I did this to myself.
Be...cause there are so many interesting dinosaurs and other prehistoric critters out there, and I can't make a decision to save my life?
*documentary voice* the world's deadliest hunter reveals itself
HBO / Warner Bros shitting the bed and getting their big behemoth stomped out by just a guy on youtube and a crew of LGBTQ+ in an indie company is some real David and Goliath stuff
Digital illustration of a chibi Princess Mononoke, San, sitting on the forest floor, with her great white wolf, Moro sitting behind her with her chin resting on San’s head. They are surrounded by trees, vegetation, and little kodama, or “tree spirits.”
Princess Mononoke
I've got to admit that the juxtaposition between the Nine Inch Noize photo and the Taemin photo directly below it made me laugh.
That's good.
Oh, bluesky.
I think this is actually from the special video they aired at the NGDA concert in 2021:
She's after him; the schedule reads from the bottom up.
![Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreicsf2kngfhvnbuq3xv3ywkavmqebetspzequuwsgndbpsknzbmwge)
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]
The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn.
Lot of recalled products down there.
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
That'd be memorable, all right. Yikes.
Good luck to him.
I don't follow NCT all that closely, but holy shit.
What.
A black and white, turkey-like dinosaur stands on an icy lake in Cretaceous China. It braces against the slow splay of its legs. As its body incrementally lowers, inching closer to the ice, it hears a voice. The ghosts of the icy forest, perhaps? The spirits of its ancestors? Perhaps nothing else can hear it, but it's getting louder, sharper. Now it can make out a sequence of sounds. They are... words? The same phrase, repeated over and over? First a whisper, then a chant. Yes, it's very clear now. Louder again - a roar! A chorus! They cry: "GET BACK TO WORK, MARK, YOU HAVE ONE WEEK LEFT TO FINISH YOUR BOOK. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCTIVE USE OF YOUR TIME." Man, even my alt-text won't give me a break.
Another "I'm not dead post" while slugging away on Book 7. Here're revisions made to my recent Caudipteryx #paleoart piece after revisiting the distribution of melanised feathers in referred specimens. I also closed the split tail, following feedback from @albertonykus.bsky.social - thanks, Albert!
The YES votes to reject this: Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechia, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom
Wanna see me when I was 17?
Last artist to leave One Hundred and/or Big Planet Made please turn out the lights.
They are also generated by some squamates and nonavian theropod dinosaurs, but the for mer were too small and the latter insufficiently alive to have left these marks at Hadar
New crocodile species described by Brochu et al and man I just love these little cheeky comments thrown in here and there.
This particular section discusses the presence of a certain type of bite marks on the fossils.
Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
That bothered me too.
I have misgivings, not least because of the AI of it all; hopefully I'm just being paranoid (because of the AI of it all).
