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The Mystical World Of Mushrooms Captured In Photos

Most people consider mushrooms to be the small, ugly cousins of the plant kingdom, but theirs is  surprisingly beautiful and wonderful world waiting to be explored. These beautiful mushrooms, captured by enthusiastic nature photographers, are a far cry from the ones you find in the woods or your local grocery store.

Most mushrooms, as we know them, are actually just the reproductive structure of the fungus they belong to – their fungal networks expand far further underground, and some fungi don’t even sprout the sort of mushrooms that we’re used to seeing. In fact, depending on your definition of “organism,” the largest living organism in the world is a fungus – there’s a honey mushroom colony in Oregon that occupies about 2,000 acres of land! ( Bored Panda )

Using chemistry to make otherworldly art Artist Iori Tomita explores the natural art of the skeletal system by exploiting clever chemistry tricks.

Allosaurus feeding her chicks, by James Gurney

The young are covered with a white coat of downy feathers.

You have a lovely blog!

Higgledy-piggledy

One silly blogger was

Told by a ‘nonny that

They liked her stuff.

She was concerned about 

Getting a swelled head and

(Unrealistically)

feared it would pop.

So, this has been sitting in my inbox for a while, and I want to apologize for not responding to it for months.

I also want to take this opportunity to reemphasize that I'm terrible at replying to messages, and the amount of time between the message and my response (or total lack thereof) is any sort of indicator of what I think of you or your message. 9 times out of 10 it's because I want to take some time to give a proper reply, but I really don't have the time to do that because I should have been doing work instead of being on tumblr in the first place. (The other 1 time out of the 10 is because I get distracted. I am sorry; I'm rather easily distractable.)

Lastly, I want to apologize for posting so few poems over the last bunch of months. I've been pretty bummed about it and I hope that will change, though I can't guarantee anything.

This was a mispost, but enjoy the adorable owl anyway!

(But if you are interested in seeing more owls and other cute animals, unconventionally-adorable is where I initially intended to post this. So, please forgive this awkward self-promotion; I'm just proud of my cute-animal-curating skills.)

All birds look a little raggity when molting, but I think Screech Owls have the hardest molt of all. Hunter and Lucy both look pitiful this time of year - they’ve lost almost all their feather tufts. Thankfully, they’ll have all new feathers soon! #bird #owl #screechowl