In the depths...

...whale bones become gardens.

Just to inform you all:

I had a close encounter with one of these beauties. I dare to say in a mystical sense too. Kind of.

One hard truth:

...except my friends, of course.

abstruse goose

A glimpse on animal insanity.

Sometimes a little anthropomorphization is needed.

from Werner Herzog's 'Encounters at the end of the world'

It looks almost like a movie scene:

San Francisco by night, empty city streets, the last bus to 46th Av., twenty raccoons scurrying for food...

Royal Inbreeding:

Forming political alliances among elite power-brokers and strange human phenotypes since... Well, since ever.

Charles II, King of Spain (1661-1700), by Juan de Miranda Carreno.

The swallow flight...

Or how to turn Star Wars spaceships maneuvers in something absolutely plain and ordinary.

Your good action for today:

Kicking out a little bit of the mythological weight from the wolf's back.

José Luis Rodriguez, the 2009 Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Nautilus: The ninety-tentacle cephalopod.

Crossing oceans in logarithmic spirals shells.

Is the brain made of gray modules?

I'm not feeling metaphoric today.

Awakening.

The exact moment that Harold Whittles hears for the very first time ever.

Jack Bradley

Aerodynamics for what?

Nectar-based brute force is more than enough.

Richard Bomphrey

Sometimes Hope leaves Pandora's box...

...and we call it Obsession.

Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre

There are 40,000 known spider species and one of them (one!), Bagheera kiplingi, is vegetarian.

My world was structured in the belief that there was an exception to the rule that states that for every rule there is an exception. And the exception was that all spiders are hunters.

Photograph by Robert L. Curry

Because there is no such thing as a polymath cell.

Yes, I'm fully aware that they have the potential. I also had the potential to be a world class skater neurosurgeon astronaut. That works in Egyptian archaeological sites as a hobby. But it turns out...

The importance of having a mane.

Can awesomeness be adaptive? Yes, it can.

Skull's South Pole.

If you cork it at an appropriate time, the soul don't leave through the hole.

Thylacine: Being a magnificent carnivorous marsupial until 1936.

Yeah, cool fur. But check this out: 120 degrees jaw opening.

The Psychatric Answering Machine.

Press a number and we'll send you the pills.

Anatomy of Mythical Japanese Monsters:

It takes at least four glands to start a gastric fire .

Shoji Otomo and Shogo Endo. More here.

With tiny stinging sea anemones in their claws...

My pets are cooler than yours.

The fundamental question about dreams:

Are brains workaholics or do they indulge themselves with some quality spare time?

Riding into the Mara's Sunset.

Se non è vero, è ben trovato.

A story of predation written in snow.

This reminds me the movie "Seven" and I know why.

A contribution to an eventual "Fantastic Voyage" remake.

I hope you notice that this metaphor also works the other way around. Just try to be on the subway at rush hour.

City life is hard to everyone.

"Go sparrow, go sparrow".

Big herbivores and heavy snow:

Some things are meant to be together.

With whip and love...

...we became centaurs.

The moult club:

"I got you under my skin".

The midnight high tide blues:

"Against all odds we found each other in this vast ocean, and while sharing this tide and space and feeling of familiar shape, yet we are casted away by the loneliness of scale".

Ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honor that I present to you...

Phineas Gage!
(It's really him, honestly).

Lois Lane seen through the eyes of Superman after a stroke.

"I believe the patient has a severe impairment of the right-side x-ray vision processing area.", said the doctor to the Kent family.

This is the backcover of some guy's book:

He wrote that clever sentence, but never realized that his hallucination was a nurtured consciousness.

The Aphid's Armageddon:

"A million red griding machines eating up all the copies of myself."

How to meet a Bird Doctor:

Boy thinks cats are the Devil; Boy kills cats in mass; Rise of rodent population in boy's town; Rats' fleas pass to boy; Boy gets Black Plague; Boy's lymph nodes swallow and explode in miasmic flares.

LSD:

Freaks' only reason to love the C.I.A.

In the abyss...

...lives a fish named stoplight loosejaw that emits a beam of red light invisible to other fishes and have chlorophyll in the eyes to perceive it.

Dance the waggle...

...and show me your honey.

I'm all ears...

...but the cognitive process known as attention remains at the same average human male level. It's not me, it's my genes.

What do you do for living?

"I train insects", he answered.

A sad lesson from the african wild dogs:

Being awesome, great hunter and a caring parent it's just not enough.

Her pheromones are screaming to me:

"I put a spell on you."

You decide:

Colossal screw-up wiring or surgical fitness maximization?

If mice conquered the world...

"Hey Morris, paradigm this!"

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate.

Go tell that to reverse transcriptase.

Found here.

Drug-free Psychedelism.

How about that?

The homesick turtle:

"My home is where this imprinted geomagnetic landscape is."

This is me thinking about you.

Now we just need to find a transferable file format.

A banana shattered in the floor...

... is a very good sign that something is wrong with your perception.

Brock Davis

Nostalgia: A side-effect of mental time travel.

I tried to lobotomize it, but is kind of hard when one came from a musically very decent decade.

Some day I had to give some credit to birds of prey:

They can be photogenic.

Jose Hernandez

Hardcore Kitten.

At least this white queen has a good biological excuse to be a such a slut.

Is there anyway I can put a patent on aerobic breathing?

Yeap, I'm feeling greedy today.