Marlène Thiery  Opalized Dinosaur Bone - approx 3cm - photographed for @jakes_gemz

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An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has been described as an early example of artistic thought.

From West Tofts, Norfolk.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Courtesy Alison Fisk

Barylambda - by Gabriel Ugueto

you are my peach, you are my plum

Cicada (Tacua speciosa), family Cicadidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by EnnisFei (@ennisanna_fei)

Cicada (Tacua speciosa), family Cicadidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by EnnisFei (@ennisanna_fei)

Cicada (Tacua speciosa), family Cicadidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by EnnisFei (@ennisanna_fei)

Ice Age Horses - by Caxela

A farewell to the last Palestinian crocodile

The Palestinian crocodile went extinct during the British Mandate period of Palestine, it’s last traceable rhetorical circulation to 1935. Here, the crocodile represents the ecological damage of colonialism in Palestine’s indigenous wildlife, which extends to modern day occupied Palestine. [further reading]. 

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Peppermint Stick Insect (Megacrania batesii), family Phasmatidae, Cape Tribulation, Daintree Rainforest, Queensland, Australia

photograph by Florian Denis  

Texas A&M student identifies Unique 5-Million-Year-Old Rhino Species - by Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University | Phys.org - Other Sciences - Archaeology

The Unicorn - by Eurwentala

It's late May in the mammoth steppe somewhere in Eastern Europe, about 40,000 years ago. The steppe is in bloom with carnations, buttercups, goat's-beards, and wild chives. A lonely Elasmotherium sibiricum has alarmed the lapwings (Vanellus vanellus) by walking too close to their nests hidden among the grass. The giant rhinoceros has still matted strands of winter fur hanging from it's coat.

Elasmotherium, the great one-horned rhino of Pleistocene Eurasia, has been suggested as the origin of the unicorn myth. It has been speculate to have lived into historical times, supported by some interesting, though vague historical records of giant one-horned bulls and Chinese depictions of big, dark unicorns. There is also a probable cave painting from France, on which this reconstruction is mostly based. The painting's location in France is a bit of a mystery, though, as there are no known fossils from Western Europe.

The Nimble Cherry & the Awakening Northern Jungle The Ecological Trajectory of Homonids as Witnessed by the Genus Prunus - by Kyle Chamberlain | Resilience Land Care | 25th/10/2015

Yucatán Spiny-tailed Iguana (Cachryx defensor), family Iguanidae, endemic to the northern Yucatán peninsula of Mexico

Photograph by Pedro Nahuat

Western Green Toad (Anaxyrus debilis insidior), family Bufonidae, found in the SW United States

Other variations of this toad do in fact have green on them.

This is a sub species of the North American green toad.

Photograph by Dick Bartlett

The Tiny Mossy Frog Clings for Survival | Great Big Story