Finished the roombox:) #dollhousekitchen #dollhouseminiature#miniature#shabbykitchen#countrykitchen#miniatures#roombox

Making a strawberry charlotte with mini Kitchen Aid mixer by Paris Miniatures on Flickr.

The Mexican Mole Lizard (Bipes biporus)

(Five-Toed Worm Lizard, Ajolote or Baja Worm Lizard)

Species of aamphisbaenian. One of four amphisbaenians that have legs, and the only non-extinct species of animal to have only two limbs.

worm lizard

nude

candelabra 3 by arline_smith1 on Flickr.

Leaf bug (Phyllium giganteum)

The constant wobbling as they move is a part of their disguise, making it seem as though the “leaf” is only moving because of a light breeze.

If you blow on one it will also shake around in the hopes of matching any actual surrounding leaves

(via 500px / Lilac-Breasted Roller by Hendri Venter)

Young tarantulas scurry from a tree hollow

Leigh Martin explores the art of decomposition through knitting

Flintlock key gun, 18th century.

AQUARIUM

New short comic for The Rumpus. 

The Williston Memorial Library reading room, circa 1950-1959 and today #transformationtuesday #LITStagram (at Mount Holyoke College)

i miss pluto

Science and Conservation Groups Seek Endangered Status for the Monarch Butterfly

This morning (8/27/14), the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation joined the Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety (co-lead petitioners) and renowned monarch scientist Dr. Lincoln Brower to file a legal request with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking Endangered Species Act protection for the monarch butterfly. The number of monarchs has declined by more than 90 percent in less than two decades. The population has declined from a recorded high of approximately 1 billion butterflies in the mid-1990s to only 35 million butterflies last winter, the lowest number ever recorded, a drop that Lincoln Brower describes as “a deadly free fall.” During the same period it is estimated that these butterflies have lost more than 165 million acres of habitat—an area about the size of Texas—including nearly a third of their summer breeding grounds…

(read more: The Xerces Society)

Birds of La Plata, Argentina, by W. H. Hudson, on Flickr.

Coloured illustrations by H. Gronvold Publication info. London [etc.]E.P. Dutton & Co.,1920.Contributing Library:. University of California Libraries B.H.L