labellum

fairy-wren:

pileated woodpeckers

(photo by judd patterson)

fairy-wren:

channel-billed toucans

(photo by jquental)

(via tanaka-kingdom)

intricate-perception:

Catnip.

(via scientificillustration)

fairy-wren:

shoebill tossing around a duck

(photo by clive white)

(via theanimalblog)

botany:

Cynoglossum grande - Houndstongue

(via life-science)

inhumanoid:

Welwitschia mirabilis

One of the rarest and strangest plants in the world, Welwitschia mirabilis is often referred to as an “underground tree” and can live up to 2,000 years in the arid Namib desert. It’s comprised of two leaves, a stem base and a tap root. The leaves become frayed but never stop growing and never shed, giving the plant it’s Medusa-like appearance. It uses them to collect moisture from sea fog. The long tap root can extend 6ft underground to collect water.

The only member of the Welwitschia genus, it’s thought to be a relic from the Jurassic Period, when the Earth was covered with ferns and gymnosperms, and thus a “living fossil”.

Image credits: Top | Bottom

(via neuroconnoisseur)

rhamphotheca:

ex0skeletal: Double Collard Sunbird (photo by Johan Combrink)

bromeliace:

Billbergia nutans - 1 by Luiz Filipe Varella on Flickr.

scientificillustration:

n226_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

The Nodding Renealmia

fuckyeahplantae:

Stem section of spiny sow thistle (Sonchus asper).

rhamphotheca:

The Tsushima Leopard Cat is a race of the Amur subspecies of Leopard Cat, Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus, found only on the island of Tsushima in Japan. It is critically endangered.

(photos: top L - BigCatRescue, top R - Pontafon | Wikipedia, bot L - Tetzl, bot R - _yasa)

funkysafari:

Eye of the Parrot

by Sarah Gadd

(via exotic-earth)

fuckyeahaquaria:

Grey Angelfish | Paracanthurus hepatus

(by edpdiver)

fuckyeahaquaria:

Fluorescence of a Nembrotha kubaryana.

(by Rai Fernandez)