Category Nature/Biology
No Explanation for Pennsylvania’s Purple Squirrel
Emert said she had spotted a purple squirrel on her property but no one believed her.
Jurassic cricket’s song recreated
Night-time in the Jurassic forest was punctuated by the unmistakable sound of chirping bush crickets.
This is according to scientists who have reconstructed the song of a cricket that chirped 165 million years ago.
This is How our Sun will Look when it Dies
In a few billion years, our dear Sun will look like this, a beautiful glowing eye of spent starstuff trash in the shape of Sauron’s Eye. And no ring is going to save us from this one. It’s the Helix Nebula, 700 light-years away from Earth. Once upon a time it was a star like ours. As it died, it expanded engulfing everything around it. The gas cloud was created at the end.
VIA: –PRESURFER–
Parasites, deadly bugs and fungi are more beautiful than you could possibly imagine
We’ve all seen totally gorgeous microscopy photos before — but there’s still something startling about seeing an arresting picture of a beautiful lattice, only to realize it’s a set of mutated cells.
CONSPIRAPORN! 