Orion Nebula In Oxygen, Hydrogen, And Sulfur Via NASA Https://ift.tt/2GB0bRc

Visual representation of how the Solar System travels through the Milky Way

via reddit

Images of Jupiter taken by JunoCam on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Mission Juno, Jason Major, Luca Fornaciari,   Gerald Eichstädt

Demonstration of the 1974 Arecibo message. The radio message, consisting of seven different parts showcasing human technological knowledge, was sent from Earth to star cluster M13, 25,000 light years away.

(In the actual message the different parts aren’t colored.)

Welcome to….DEVONIAN PARK. Please don’t tap the glass (the dunks are very sensitive).

Jupiter Auroras by NASA Hubble

Look at the bottom gif! The long tentacles are pushed out and parallel to each other while the jelly is motionless. This behavior is predatory, which means that the Marianas Trench Jelly is set in attack mode! 

Read more about the 2016 discovery of the Marianas Trench Jelly

It makes me sad how no one ever seems to mention how wild the crocodilian-line archosaurs were. Dinosaurs get all the attention when there was equally crazy shit happening on the other branch of the archosaur tree.

There was a whole linage of bipedal crocodylomorphs during the Triassic that were basically identical to theropod dinosaurs, so much so that a lot of them were initially classified as dinosaurs!

Just fucking look at them!

And these weren’t just little lizard guys, there were some big lads running around.

Not to mention the long-legged ones that galloped around on all fours like some kind of terrifying reptilian dogs.

These crazy crocodiles aren’t just from the Triassic, either; there was a galloping, hoofed crocodilian that lived during the Eocene and likely hunted horses. (They were smaller and not quite as fast as modern horses, but still)

But don’t worry, they weren’t all meat-eaters! There were vegetarian and omnivore crocodylomorphs too! Just look at this guy!

He was an ankylosaur before ankylosaurs were cool (or even existed).

Plesiosaurus skeleton from the Houston Natural History Museum!

50 Foot Long Congo Snake

In 1959 Remy Van Lierden was flying over the Katanga region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was flying a helicopter and returning to the base that he commanded in Kamina. As he passed over a clearing in the jungle he noticed a large animal laying out in the sun. What he saw was a 50 foot long snake, with green and brown scales. He couldn’t believe his eyes and neither could his passengers. He circled around and made several passes off the monstrous snake, however he flew away when it got into the striking position and thought it was too dangerous to contour to fly over the animal. During one of the passes he made a passenger on his aircraft snapped this picture to prove what they saw. The snake in question is clearly large and it’s easy to see how it could have been a threat to a low flying helicopter. It’s believed that the snake is a Titanoboa which is thought to be extinct, and has been for millions of years. But it’s possible that the species may have survived. The natives claim that the snake pictured here is a small one and that they can get up to twice and three times the size.

Hiking to the largest Ammonite in the world!

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Titanites lived during the Late Jurassic Period and had a shell diameter of around 137 centimetres! surprisingly it wasn’t the largest ammonoid, as some species such as Parapuzosia could get over twice as large!

There were also some plant fossils around the area of this site!