Heteromorph Ammonites With Spikes (Emericiceras Alpinum, Ancyloceras Vandenbecki, Emericiceras Barremense)

Pokemon Spectrum | by gogoatt

Via Peyton Thomas

Catzillas: Giant Cats In Urban Landscapes

Indonesian artist Fransdita Muafidin publishes a series of photomontages with kittens and fat adult cats among the urban landscapes from around the world.

Via Design You Trust

Like milk, coffee is a nutritional output. It comes from the rare FistPumpius Caffeinius.

The concept of information as viewed in theoretical physics through statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, and its implications and connections with evolutionary biology. An interesting reading:

How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder (via WIRED -original story from Quanta Magazine)

Biological systems don’t defy physical laws, of course—but neither do they seem to be predicted by them. In contrast, they are goal-directed: survive and reproduce. We can say that they have a purpose—or what philosophers have traditionally called a teleology—that guides their behavior.

By the same token, physics now lets us predict, starting from the state of the universe a billionth of a second after the Big Bang, what it looks like today. But no one imagines that the appearance of the first primitive cells on Earth led predictably to the human race. Laws do not, it seems, dictate the course of evolution.

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David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.

JÓVENES INVESTIGADORES: 1.PALEONTOLOGÍA

Young researchers in paleontology. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

These are just amazing!

Moth is not a four-letter word for this UK knitter! | KnitHacker

Max Alexander‘s knitted moths are incredible – I am simply blown away. LOVE! I also like the irony of using wool to knit moths – normally that combination strikes fear into the heart of every knitter/crocheter I know!

African Cherry Spot Moth 

Knitted Merveille du Jour Moth 

Tatargina Picta Moth 

Peach Blossom Moth

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Here was a lucky little find from today’s fossil hunt on Charmouth beach. This is a pyrite ammonite of the species Echioceras raricostatum. They are preserved in very soft shale, as you can see, which means that they come out in one piece very easily. Usually, the sea pulls them out of the rocks and dumps them on the beach. This can easily damage or destroy them. This one has a thin calcite shell on top of the pyrite which would have been removed by the sea almost instantly if it had got to it before I did. This fossil is around 196 million years old.

Map of US National Parks