MLK Memorial Beach Cleanup With NPS, SCA And Mission Continues. Beautiful Day In Brooklyn

Haven't chilled over here since the weather got cooler.

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Winter Carnival at Bryant Park was fun and very cold!

Are you trying to find ways to stay cool during the heat waves this summer? Here’s how the painted reed frog (Hyperolius marmoratus) survives when it gets too hot: It rests motionless on a leaf in a tightly-wound position which helps it retain body moisture and reduce its exposure to the Sun. It can also enter a hibernation-like state, known as aestivation, in which its metabolism rate drops by 50%! And special cells in its skin, called iridophores, reflect sunlight, resulting in a silvery-white color and acting as a sunscreen. You can spot this frog in parts of Africa including Gabon, Mozambique, and South Africa.

Photo: Bart Wursten, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr

#AnimalFacts #frogs #amphibians #PaintedReedFrog #dyk #aestivation #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/CgkxlWfreyD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Glorious

I think we should all take a moment to appreciate this gloriously well-preserved nodosaur that turned up in Alberta.

I mean, look at this thing!

This has got to be one of the most well-preserved dinosaurs I have ever laid eyes on.

Even the keratin sheaths around its osteoderm spikes were preserved, so it can be used to reliably reconstruct how ankylosaurids would have looked at in life!

And the best part is it was discovered completely by accident in a mining operation! Can you imagine being one of the miners who stumbled across this beautiful, beautiful thing?

National Geographic link

You haven’t tried. You’re like a goddess and I’m insanely insecure. Getting mad at me for it won’t change anything. What do you want me to do?

Your secrets are safe here (via thesecretletter)

A hungry traveller stops at a monastery and is taken to the kitchens. A brother is frying chips. ‘Are you the friar?’ he asks. ‘No. I’m the chip monk,’ he replies..

I'm black and proud of dark skin!

Reblog if you're black tumblr.

You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and you’re for us.

Never listen to the haters. Work hard, and do what you love.

Ariel Martin (via forbes)

Men who think like this are a problem!

The baby girl that was born just a few hours ago… her father wants to drown her in milk because he didn’t receive a male heir!

Rekha as Ramdulaari // Lajja (2001)