A handmade recreation of a Cthulhu cultist’s storage chest inspired by HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Painstakingly created by Mythos artist Jason McKittrick, this collection is a veritable treasure trove of Cthulhu Cult related artefacts and documents contained in a handmade aged wooden chest — viadeviantART
Can you imagine… being a young fox, thinking you have seen it all. And then all of a sudden these white ‘things’ begin to fall from the sky… And since there’s no escaping, you’d better enjoy it 😉 — via 500px
Around 10” high. He’s all fluffed the wrong way and bent wrong in places. Yeah — via deviantART
Located at Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI) is Callinectes Douglassi, a 500-pound blue crab made from stained glass by artist Jackie Leatherbury Douglass and her husband John in 1984. The 10 ft x 7 ft x 5 ft (3 x 2 x 1.5 meter) sculpture took over 5,500 man hours over a 14-month period to build. The stained glass blue crab weighs roughly 500 pounds. The sculpture was commissioned by Anne Arudnel County. As one of Maryland’s state symbols, the blue crab was an obvious choice — via TwistedSifter
After a 16 month wait, the Colchester Zoo announced the birth of a female Southern White Rhinoceros calf to female Rhino Emily on 13 April. This is the first Rhino calf to be born through a natural mating at Colchester Zoo and is the first calf for Emily and male Rhino Otto. Curator Sarah Forsyth said, Emily is proving to be a very protective but excellent mother and the calf is very healthy and already building a close relationship with her keepers
— via ZooBorns
Kenyi, a British Columbian Tundra Wolf pup, has a new home after travelling across the country to the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Centre. Born in Florida, Kenyi and his two siblings were unplanned, so there was not enough room for them to remain at their birthplace — via ZooBorns
The science world has paid homage to Johnny Depp by giving his name to an extinct creepy-crawly with scissor hand-like
claws reminiscent of one of the actor’s best-known roles.
Kooteninchela deppi was a 505-million-year-old distant ancestor of lobsters and scorpions, according to a study in the Journal of Palaeontology.
It has been named for Depp’s famous portrayal of a gentle freak named Edward Scissorhands in the 1990 eponymous film — via redwolf.newsvine.com
From the documentary Animals Like Us
Leave it to Pinkamena Diane Pie to mop up your worries, real or imagined, with a smile. But if your troubles are with parasprites, she’ll also be needing a whole bunch of instruments to round them up. And no, you won’t be needing an equal number of Pinkie Pies or other musically inclined ponies for that matter as she can play them all by herself. As to how exactly she can pull that off, who knows? Just keep a lookout for stray parasprites like Gummy’s doing, or at least that’s what I think he’s doing.
The stand, figures, tuba and accordion are carved out of Philippine mahogany while the gears, banjo, tambourine, harmonica and parasprites are made from Narra hardwood. The Parasprite wings are made with lacquered tracing paper and the cymbals are from sheet metal. The figures are painted in enamel and protected by clear flat lacquer. Pinkie Pie stands at 5″ and measured as a whole including the stand and instruments is 8 1/4″ tall, 8 1/2″ long, and 4 1/4″ wide. The entire piece took 129 1/2 hours to complete — via Youtube
A man has been trampled to death by a herd of cows, police say.
The incident happened in a field in Turleigh, near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, on Monday afternoon. The emergency services were called at about 12.30pm but the man, in his 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Another man was seriously injured in the incident and airlifted to Frenchay hospital in Bristol by the Wiltshire air ambulance — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than half of common plant species and a third of animals could see a serious decline in their habitat range because of climate change.
New research suggests that biodiversity around the globe will be significantly impacted if temperatures rise more than 2C.
But the scientists say that the losses can be reduced if rapid action is taken to curb greenhouse gases.
The paper is published in the journal, Nature Climate Change — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On Sunday, 7 April, four Asiatic Lion cubs were born to parents Zulu, the father, and Tia, the mother, at the Emmen Zoo in Holland. The night house den had been cleared of other Lions so Tia could spend the critical first days and weeks bonding with her babies behind the scenes. Through the use of a live webcam, keepers have been able to keep a close eye on the little family, and have observed the four avidly nursing, and growing bigger and livelier by the day under Tia’s excellent care. The sex of the cubs has not yet been determined — via ZooBorns
Staff at Nordens Ark in Sweden finally got a glimpse of their newest residents, three Wolverine pups. The pups, born on 21 February, recently emerged from their mother’s den; where they spent the first six weeks of their lives completely dependent on their mother — via ZooBorns
BCX Kraken Unleashed — via Base Camp X
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