I Really Love These Starry Illustrations By Hajin Bae.

Check out Fingerprints of Water on the Sand via NASA http://ift.tt/1Mxtpaz

This is the third week of starry scholastic month!

This week’s entry: Brown Dwarfs

http://www.space.com/24467-brown-dwarfs-failed-stars-explained-infographic.html

http://www.space.com/23798-brown-dwarfs.html

(via (Shia LaBeouf))

I can’t believe I haven’t shared this yet. It’s an immaculate piece of the internet and gives hope that art is not dead.

(Credits go to TaySwiftVidz)

I almost forgot about my favorite High School Musical dancer (x)

Actually crying with laughter. 

8 of the world’s most bizarre flowers:

1.) Swaddled Babies

2.) Flying Duck Orchid

3.) Hooker’s Lips Orchid

4.) Ballerina Orchid

5.) Monkey Orchid

6.) Naked Man Orchid

7.) Laughing Bumblebee Orchid

8.) White Egret Orchid

Video: Bat’s tongue baffles researchers

by Hanae Armitage

Most nectar-feeding animals evolve special quirks (mainly of the tongue) that optimize their eating habits. 

But for the groove-tongued bat (Lonchophylla robusta), evolution has dealt a bit of a strange hand. Instead of lapping up or siphoning liquid as other mammals do, this bat hovers over its food source and dips its long, slender tongue into the nectar, keeping contact the entire time it drinks. 

Researchers filmed the bat with a high-speed video camera to try to decipher the special tongue mechanism, and watched as the fluid flowed upward along the bat’s tongue, against gravity, and into its mouth. 

Today, researchers report in Science Advances that the conveyor belt–like mechanism may actually allow these bats to feed more efficiently from certain types of flowers…

(read more: Science/AAAS)

this is a sea angel (clione limacina), photographed by alexander semenov swimming with its wing like fins in russia’s white sea. these translucent pteropods, measuring only a few centimeters in length, are actually sea snails sans shells. lacking this cumbersome but protective shell, sea angels instead synthesize bad tasting compounds that dissuade predators from eating them. (see also: bobtail squid and josh lambus’ work)