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I mean, seriously, Brian May has been one of the people I've always envied. I may have to learn to love badgers now.

"The shrubbery rustles and shakes, then Brian May falls out of the rhododendrons, dusts himself down and stumbles towards five fox cubs at play in a clearing. In the landscaped gardens of his historic home in the Surrey hills, the Queen guitarist looks every inch the semi-retired rock star: huge curly hair on gangly frame, black trousers, immaculate white Pumas and a dangerously unbuttoned white shirt."

wtf_nature is a community that has, well, a lot of WTF? And it's all horribly real.

Today's entry was about 10 Creepy Plants that Shouldn't Exist.

This may be my favorite of the Kilauea pictures for the following reasons:

1) moon hid partly by the steam
2) fresh lava skittering across the water
3) you can see the cracks in the fresh flow
4) directly above (and behind) the fresh flow, you can see green (trees in this case)
5) fire backlighting some of the clouds

For 3 & 4, you'd probably need to look at original size -- sadly, it's a fairly noisy picture because of the ISO -- it was significantly darker than the picture makes it appear.

Kilauea At Dawn

Last Saturday, we went out with my friend Nicholas (yes,

ethernautrix, that one) and his daughter in his little green Fiat.

We went to Cumulus for lunch and had some fun (and some odd) dishes, all of which were very tasty.

We then went to the Melbourne museum, where his daughter wanted to see (wait for it) dinosaurs! So we did. (I'm always up for dinosaurs!) Lots of interesting stuff there, and the taxidermy room was incredible. I was a bit sad about the Tasmanian Tiger, though it was an old specimen. (They are now extinct, and weren't actual tigers, but marsupials.)

From the Wikipedia entry about them:

The thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes (the other being the water opossum). The male thylacine had a pouch that acted as a protective sheath, covering the male's external reproductive organs while he ran through thick brush.

That sounds eminently sensible to me.

Honduran white bats.

Do they not make you go "awwwwww"?

Wookit da wittwe piggy nosie!

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