This mosaic depicts snails in a basket (presumably waiting to be cooked and eaten). This may explain why one has already escaped and another is making a break for it.
🕰️4th century AD
🏛️📷Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia
#MosaicMonday
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
It's shocking the mental gymnastics grown adults will engage in just to support their oppositional defiance. 60 year old playing child temper tantrum
A lovely post about Solenogaster aka aplacophorans! Vermiform molluscs! #wormwednesday via @oceancensus.bsky.social oceancensus.org/why-should-w...
A small, plump, reddish brown toad with very stout looking legs! They are covered in lots and lots of warty bumps!
Our friend the Herveo Plump Toad lives in cool, moist places high in the Andean mountains of Colombia! They are a small toad, growing to just over an inch long! (photo by Carlos A. Londoño Guarnizo)
Peanut worm and boring peanut worm
That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?
Happy Birthday! 💚
ENOOOOORMOUS SNAIL!? 🤯🐌
PLEASE meet the Giant Amazon Land Snail (Megalobulimus popelairianus)! 🧡
These guys are the HEAVIEST terrestrial land snail and are just an all-round extraordinary critter! It was an absolute HONOUR bumping into this one on the beautiful paths of Maquipucuna’s forest! 🌳✨
Mixed success for me. Been on it for a few years and it has curbed some of the edge of the worst bits of depression.
a pixel art drawing of a dragon quest monster the slime knight which is a small knight in shining armor sitting on top of a lime green slime
a slime's knight
Today's frog is the Sehuencas water frog.
A tick... on an ELECTRIC EEL???
That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant
#Invertebrate 🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
Hey, I know it's not Giving Tuesday anymore (I am deep in the paper mines), but if you've ever wanted to help me out, please consider donating to keep PRI and Ithaca's Museum of the Earth open. They have until December 31 to raise 1M to prevent foreclosure. priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...
My boys did damn good 🥹🐧
Veronicellid!
Anyone who has offered to help me financially, please instead help out PRI / Paleontological Research Institution. They run a wonderful small museum in Ithaca at risk of foreclosure. They offer special sensory-friendly days, fully-masked days, fossil IDs, and an online gift shop.
www.priweb.org
We don't talk enough about the brilliant work that artist Jesse Santos did for bottom-of-the-barrel comic publishers like Gold Key. Just look at this Doctor Spektor cover art!
Halloween Marathon Day 18: The Ghoul (1933). A former lost film recovered in a lost Cinema vault in the UK. While not as thrilling or story driven as other contemporary horror films, the character acting really saves this film. The Ghoul is full of quotable lines and memorable performances.
Halloween Marathon Day 17: In a Violent Nature (2024). The over the shoulder tracking perspective trained on the killer makes this a very unique and fresh entry into the slasher genre. The story feels secondary to the unique cinematography but I really enjoyed it regardless!
has persisted to this day. The infamous London After Midnight released just a year prior is lost entirely but the Man Who Laughs reaches out through the sands of time. It is an incomparably beautiful film in both story and imagery. Even if you wait til October is over please see it for yourself!
Halloween Marathon Day 16: the Man Who Laughs (1928). I have so many glowing this things to say about this treasure but a horror film it is not. Gothic epic romance probably fits it best but no one enjoys arguments about genre. We are privileged that this story made in the Silent film era...
JK Rowling doesn't recognise the croque madame as a truly female sandwich.
Akiko Yano Tadaima 😊
Granted it's a very short scene but I do appreciate a miniature scale model train disaster in a black and white movie 😅
