Flamingo skull by Lukas
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The amazing vareity of Guillemot (Uria Aalge) eggs from Birmingham Museums Trust’s collection.

Volvariella bombycina (silky rosegill) from Richmond Park.

Rack Wing Drawing Compass, 19th Century by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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Rack wing drawing compass made by Richard Timmins and Sons. Accession number: 1999F172.122

mycology:

The spores of Elaphomyces (deer truffles) look like alien planets.

Source

Neomymar gusar Triapitsyn, Berezovskiy & Huber, 2006 by Natural History Museum: Hymenoptera Section
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Chalcidoidea, Mymaridae Paratype female collected in Costa Rica by John Noyes The original description states that the name “is Russian for a member of the elite cavalry troops in the czarist army in Russia; gusars were also famous for having large moustaches, thus referring to the peculiar long, massive, and hairy antennae in this new species”. Photograph by Natalie Dale-Skey

Spores being released from A huge Ganoderma in Epping Forest.

Underwater wreck of a WWII-era B-25 bomber.

smithsonianlibraries:

Did someone say Trypophobia?

Diagrams of the macro-ornamentation of spore surfaces from A Modern Multilingual Glossary for Taxonomic Pteridology by David B. Lellinger.

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