This is the Short Faced Bear, it lived in California 11,000 years ago. It’s the largest known mammalian carnivore and it might have hunted humans. Imagine coming face to face with this guy, and all you’ve got to defend yourself is a stone-age handheld axe.
A beautiful map of all the known asteroids in the Solar System. What if a map like this is the precursor to space exploration and mining, like the early cartographical maps of the Americas? (Image comes from u/hellofromthemoon on Reddit)
This Lion monument is from Heracleion, a sunken Egyptian city. Before the 2nd Century BC it was the primary port of Egypt. But after a catastrophic flood, its soil liquified and the entire city gradually sunk into the Mediterranean sea.
A panorama from the surface of Mars. You could walk outside tonight, point up at a light in the sky, then pull out your phone and see what it looks like on the surface.
Image source: NASA
This hummingbird sitting on a ‘Heliconia rostrata’. Neither creature is conscious of it, but both have been made for each other by a multi-million-year-old evolutionary partnership between their species. Among other things, the flower became downward-facing and vibrantly red, and the bird became small, long-beaked, and long-tongued.
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This used to be an ocean. 37 million years ago, this whale swam through what is now an Egyptian desert 
Fossil of 37 million years old Whale Skeleton found in Wadi Al Hitan, Egyptian desert
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The cockatoo squid. Photo by Kat Bolstad Galiteuthis phyllura or the cockatoo squid.
(Photo Kat Bolstad)
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With its many spirals and tendrils, deep-sea Iridigorgia corals create homes for a huge range of life which live along its stalks With multiple spirals and willow-like tendrils, deep-sea Iridigorgia corals offer prime real estate to hydroids, crinoids, and brittle stars that thrive along their stalks.
👀1660m @ Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument @USFWSPacific @NOAAFish_PIRO
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Cuttlefish Mimics Being Female To Mate
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Two eagles locking talons high above the ground might look like they’re risking injury, but it’s a normal courtship behavior called the “cartwheel display.” Fully entangled, the two birds begin spinning to the earth, disengaging just before they smack the ground. Their clasp could last for hours. At last, the eagles unlock talons and fly off. Rival adults sometimes perform the same flight. Learn more at BirdNote.org.
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