Pretty poison 🤍
The sulphur tuft grows in large clumps on stumps, dead roots or rotting tree trunks. While it may be pretty, the sulphur tuft is bitter and poisonous; consuming it can cause a whole range of negative side affects!
📸:
@1friendlyfungus
#FungusFriday
#mushroom
It’s a grueling 5,000-mile path that takes them across Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. Will they complete it?
#ExpeditionFromHell
: The Lost Tapes premieres Sunday May 12 at 10p ET on
@discovery
"Every split second could mean the difference between life and death."
The 20th season of
#DeadliestCatch
premieres Tuesday, June 11 at 8p on
@Discovery
.
The Eta Aquarid meteor showers are active every year in April and May as the Earth passes through debris left behind by the Comet Halley - and this week promises the best views! 🌌
The shower is usually better viewed in the Southern Hemisphere, where it’s one of the most…
The leafy sea dragon 🐲🪸
Closely related to seahorses, the leafy sea dragon lives in cool rocky reefs off south and western Australia. There, this rare fish, with its leaflike fins and frilly appendages, is perfectly camouflaged among seaweeds and seagrass beds. It can be…
Rock on 🤘
Extracting gold from hard rock requires an interesting and elaborate process starting with crushing ore, then leaching, electroplating, and smelting to draw out the impurities.
#AmericasBackyardGold
#NationalTeacherDay
TONIGHT 9p ET on
@discovery
Austinite crystals are rare minerals found in the oxidation zone of arsenic-bearing base metal deposits. They can develop on the surface of limonite.
📸: Mineral Vision
#crystals
#mexico
#austinite
It's gonna get hot on Mars! ☀️
Researchers hope to uncover how much solar activity will be received on Mars. The Sun will be entering solar maximum, something that occurs roughly every 11 years, where it is prone to throwing fiery tantrums in a variety of forms — including solar…
🪸 + 🍄 = the coral mushroom!
This mushroom mushroom contains protein, potassium, and trace amounts of copper, magnesium, and calcium. It also contains essential amino acids and antioxidant and antibacterial properties.
📸:
@1friendlyfungus
#FungusFriday
#mushroom
Proving that there is such a thing as a cute spider 🕷🥹 When a jumping spider wants to soar, it contracts special muscles to increase the flow of blood to its legs. This makes their legs fully extend and sends the spider flying!
🎥: Jan Rozehnal
#jumpingspider
#spider
An orange dragonfly up close 🪰
#DidYouKnow
dragonflies have the largest compound eyes of any insect. Nearly all of the dragonfly's head is eye, giving them incredible vision encompassing almost every angle.
📸: Barnaby Chambers
#dragonfly
#insect
#macro
One special slug 🐌
The Nembrotha Yonowae is a large nembrothid that grows to at least 95 mm in length. Its body is covered with orange pustules, and the rhinophores and gills are black, edged in orange.
📸: Katarzyna Anyzewska-Sak
#slug
#seacreatures
5,000-mile expedition through the Amazon + a tyrant leader = CHAOS
#ExpeditionFromHell
: The Lost Tapes premieres Sunday, May 12 at 10p ET on Discovery
The naked sea butterfly 🦋
The clione limacina, known as the naked sea butterfly, sea angel, and common
#clione
, is a sea angel typically found from the surface to 2,000 feet deep. 👼
📸: Alexander Semenov
#clionelimacina
#deepsea
Ah, sugar sugar 🍬
New lab experiments suggest that simple sugar acids crucial for cell metabolism could form in star-forming regions like the Orion Nebula pictured here. Advanced telescopes could be used to search for these biomolecules.
📸: NASA, ESA, MASSIMO ROBBERTO/STSCI…
Today’s total solar eclipse as captured by the
@LowellObs
telescope in Waco, Texas. 🌘Tell us your reactions to this incredible moment!
Today’s eclipse started from the Pacific Ocean and ended in the Atlantic Ocean. This won’t happen from coast-to-coast again until 2045! 🤯…
WATCH LIVE: The Total Solar Eclipse reaches totality over Waco, Texas. Plus, hear from experts from
@LowellObs
and
@Baylor
as they discuss this rare phenomenon.
#TotalSolarEclipseLIVE
History happens TODAY ☀️🌑
Witness the Total Solar Eclipse as it reaches totality over Waco, TX with incredible detail from a
@LowellObs
telescope. It all starts at 2:15p ET/1:15p CT. See how to watch
#TotalSolarEclipseLIVE
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