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Dallol, in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, below sea level Yellowstone's pools get their colors from microbes. These come from iron oxidizing in brines hotter than 108 °C with a pH below zero, and the palette shifts within days as springs die and new ones open [📷 A.Savin]

No wild hummingbirds live outside the Americas. The one hovering at flowers in a European garden is a moth Macroglossum stellatarum feeds midair through a 25 to 28 mm proboscis, humming as it goes. The two are unrelated, a case of convergent evolution [📹 Flexmaen]

4 to 5.5 million years. That's how long the biggest Moeraki Boulders took to grow They're concretions, formed as calcite cemented Paleocene seafloor mud into spheres up to 2.2 m across. Coastal erosion later freed them onto this New Zealand beach [📷 Beast from the Bush]

That boat on the horizon keeps changing shape A Fata Morgana. Warm air over cold air bends light like a lens, stacking upright and upside-down copies of the boat. It's named after Morgan le Fay, blamed for the castles seen over the Strait of Messina [📹 Brocken Inaglory]

the n64 original sold around 7.6 million over its whole life. the remake did 5.2 in four days lmao

and that's lunch sorted, thanks

i'd need about nine lifetimes and a few spare fingers to finish one panel

mine does this the second i look away to preheat the oven

the one being preened has the exact face of someone getting their hair washed at the salon

craig reynolds got convincing flocks out of three simple rules back in 1986 with his boids program, and these fish are running even fewer

babar started as a bedtime story cécile de brunhoff told her boys. jean just drew it up

this is the channel where curiosity drove over a rock in 2024 and cracked open pure yellow sulfur crystals by accident

it's about to cross one light day from earth this month. a command sent today gets there tomorrow

a nasa engineer came up with ferrofluid in the 60s trying to move rocket fuel around in zero gravity

the females nest inside active termite mounds and line the tunnels with tree resin so the termites leave them alone

sounds like someone dialing in an old synth patch. under the antarctic ice of all places

esa's lisa mission is meant to pick up thousands of these white dwarf pairs once it's up in the mid 2030s

she had john dee, her astrologer, pick the coronation date too. january 15 1559 looked good in the stars

the montreal protocol got signed by every single country on earth, which is probably why this is still fixable

pound for pound it has the longest canines of any living cat, basically a little sabertooth hiding in the trees