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Gregarious Orange Waffle Mushrooms On A Stick
Cutest mushrooms ever found in the most beautiful place in the world.
(Waipio Valley. Big Island, Hawaii - 2/2013)
It’s like a tiny forest in Wonderland!
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Awwwww! It looks like a small maggot in a large, fluffy hat!
(via mycology)
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Secret Found For Amazing Clingfish Suction Power
by Joseph Castro
Using tiny hairs similar to those on gecko feet, clingfish are able to strongly and equally adhere to surfaces with a broad range of roughness, new research shows. The fish’s suction powers easily outperform manmade suction cups, scientists say, adding that mimicking their design could lead to a new class of suction devices.
The northern clingfish (Gobiesox maeandricus) is a species of salt-water fish native to the Pacific Coast of North America. The fish live in rocky intertidal environments, where strong waves and currents threaten to toss them about. To survive in this turbulent setting, the fish has evolved an adhesion disc on its belly, which takes up about 25 percent of its underside. Using the disc, the fish can achieve a death-grip on a variety of surfaces…
(read more: Live Science) (photo: Thomas Kleinteich)
Death-grip! My favourite kind of grip!
(via ichthyologist)
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Starfish Regeneration
Many starfishes have the ability to regenerate lost arms. Some can even regenerate a complete new disk from a severed arm, while others need a bit of the original disk attached to do so. Until it develops mouth parts, the arm must survive on stored nutrients.
Some species reproduce asexually by fission of their disks or dropping their arms. A regenerating arm in the process of growing a disk is known as a ‘comet’.
Jan Messersmith on Flickr
An arm must survive on stored nutrients before it develops mouth parts. That’s fantastic!
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i call this series Hericium Cathedral… this was taken in the woods outside of Ottawa Ontario, its one of my fave mushrooms and one of my fave pics i have taken over the years, its neighbour was also a pretty big mushroom maybe someone can give me an idea of what it is?
That’s fabulous! It’s like a natural cabinet of curiosities.
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Moon-headed Sidegill Slugs are Indo-Pacifc sea slugs.
They can glide across the sand, swim over the sand and bury themselves in the sand.
They usually live near sand.
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As much as that look like a puppet, that is actually a real bird he is holding, and that is wonderful.
Potoos are muppet birds!
POTOOS I forgot the name D=
I just found out this sings the blues! Check it out!
(via ichthyologist)
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tukey tail fungus found on a walk. Trametes versicolor or Coriolus versicolor and Polyporus versicolor. versicolor meaning ‘of many colours’. personally i dont remember the lain names for fungus mainly because i dont know the pronunciation and my memory has problems remembering words it hasnt heard phonetically. it also helps if the name is self explanatory so i should be able to retain versicolor now i know the meaning of the word.
turkey tail is one of my favorite fungi because of its amazing colors. these guys i think were actually dead as they were rock hard but the trunk was lying in water so i think thats how they have retained most of their vibrancy.
(via mycology)
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Tall Sea Pen (Funiculina quadrangularis)
… Is a species of sea pen (a type of soft coral) found throughout the North Atlantic and Mediterranean with populations reported from Japan and New Zealand as well. Like most soft corals this sea pen is colonial and is often found in large groups on the ocean floor, each colony has a separate sex as male/female polyps are found on different colonies. The tall sea pen is a simple suspension feeder using its many tentacles to feed on any plankton that happen to drift by it.
Phylogeny
Animalia-Cnidaria-Anthozoa-Octocorallia-Pennatulacea-Funiculinidae-Funiculina-quadrangularis
(via griseus)
