Smoky Quartz With The Inclusion Of Hydrocarbons ( Oil And Bitumen ) Alatau Ridge, Republic Of Bashkortostan,

The deep sea is radical. Two miles below the surface and not yet to the bottom, this Paraphyllina sp. jellyfish hovers in the vastness of inner-space. At home in the dark water world that covers most of the planet, the beautiful, bizarre beasties that the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) discovers in our backyard give us sunlit surface-dwellers a run for what it means to be an “Earthling.”

Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

this video is like every facet of what it is to be a cat, all at once

"Who are you?"

"I'm you but paleontologically accurate"

As cat owners we like to joke about how the cat is the one who’s really in charge, but let’s be honest here: my cats think they’re in charge, but they’re also fucking dumbasses. It’s sort of an incompetent-king-and-long-suffering-advisor arrangement, if the king were prone to getting their head stuck in Kleenex boxes.

Coyote Buttes South 1, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, AZ

Nature’s kingdom - On the “Ring of Kerry” by Max Montella