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heartw0rms:

Eye brooch by Kim Eric Lilot

lifewithdeadbirds:

This Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) skull does not look nearly punk enough for its owner’s species.

Crested Caracaras are birds of prey, in the same family as falcons, and regularly eat snakes, lizards, and young alligators. Luke Dempsey, author of one of my favorite books on birding, nicknamed this caracara the “red-faced greater mullet bird,” which pretty much sums up both the bird’s aesthetic and how ironically cool it must look when scoping out prey atop a cactus.

Photo credit: Kaitie Janecke Soltesz

stormkinged:

Birding at The Natural History Museum in London.

geneticist:

Healthy lungs (top) and smoker’s lungs (bottom)

summergirl1986:

cousin02 by sphenoid05 on Flickr.

anatomicdeadspace:

Hydrocephalus by Frederik Ruysch (March 28, 1638 – February 22, 1731) 

roses–and–rue:

unnaturalist:

Victorian hair art

malformalady:

Abortiporus biennis is a gnarled, messy-looking mass of irregular white pores that exude a reddish juice and bruise reddish brown. There is hardly a cap or a stem to speak of, and as it grows it engulfs sticks and blades of grass.