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My photo collage shows four images of small animal figurines carved from amber during the Danish Mesolithic period. Top left: profile photo of the head, neck, and part of the front torso of an animal (bear?) facing left. Carved from deep orange amber. Found at Bølling Sø (lake) Central Jutland, Denmark. Top right: small almost complete figurine of an amber bear seen in profile facing right. The lower legs are incomplete. The ears, muzzle and mouth are defined. Carved from translucent orange amber. Washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark. Bottom left: small figurine in the shape of a bear(?) carved from dark orange amber. It is known asvthe Resen Bear. There is fine incised geometric ornamentation on the body. Found in a bog at Resen, Denmark. Bottom left: bright orange amber animal head shown in profile facing left. Found in 1952 at Egemarke in Denmark, it is known as the Egemarke Elk. It is decorated with incised bands of closely aligned parallel zig-zag lines. There are two circular perforations at the bottom of the neck. All on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.

Something lovely for the weekend!

Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago.

Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨
📷 me

#Archaeology

a picture of Tom Waits surrounded by junk with the caption: Tom Waits giving out rusted harmonicas to any trick or treaters who visit him at haunted junkyard

Happy Halloween from the haunted junkyard
@thehardtimesnews.bsky.social

A monochrome photo. Three stones forming a ring curve round a sawn-off stump. There is a low hill in the background crowned by young trees.

I unearthed this recently. Taken by a talented photographer friend of mine in the 80s, it's of a stone circle near Nannerch in Flintshire. It's an oddity because it's not mentioned by local expert Ellis Davies in a work of 1949 and Aubrey Burl dismisses it as a folly. [Cont:
#StandingStoneSunday

I even snuck by after dark to take one to try. Unfortunately they were just out of reach and I couldn’t reach them even when jumping. But I’m not giving up I’m going to try these apples.

I’m not that big of a fan of fruits in general but these apples look so tasty.

A "fairy ring" of toadstools

I'm just about to step inside this "fairy ring", so if you don't hear from me for a few hundred years...

It took two hours for the bag drop so now I’m taking the scenic route home through Paris.

About to miss my flight because the bags took forever to arrive at the drop off.

Do they have a large white supremacist subscriber base they need to worry about offending?

My plane was delayed because they had to wait for the people in the air to be cleared before they could take off!

Visiting Valdivia. #photography

A very photogenic looking street dog walking towards the camera. The dog is a beige color.

A photo of a dirt road at night with a dogat the far end of it. The dog is only a shadow as it is dark.

A street at night illuminated by a single street lamp.

Some more #photos from my travels.

asphyxiate, choke a sapphire blue deer disintegrates into flames along with the world around it its brilliant red eyes gaze outward but nothing and no one are ever coming it is too late

details at 66% scale

no one is coming to save us

I made some friends on my vacation so far.

One of the better urban #photos I’ve taken if I say so myself. Though the smog was terrible! #photography

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This is fascinating, but what is the squirrel up to? Annoying a bear?

The cat and his pineapple #animalphoto

She looks like a dark souls or elden ring mob called like. The cursed ball wanter

Due to woke, they no longer give dogs the “cone of shame” and instead give them soviet style cosmonaut hats. Sad

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, a strawberry ghost bag, and a black creature with sharp teeth. There's a white egg with yellow embroidered flowers and purple eyeshadow and purple lips. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background. The watermelon creature and the watermelon ghost are sitting on metal doll chairs.

Would anyone like to buy and adopt one of my hand-sewn creatures while I'm getting packages ready? I have a few available in my Big Cartel and Etsy shops.

All my creature are designed, hand-sewn and hand-embroidered by me.

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jeremycreature.etsy.com

This fresco panel from Pompeii shows Phrixus and Helle trying to escape their stepmother by crossing the sea between Europe and Asia on a flying golden ram. The fresco dates the C1st CE and is now held by the MAN Napoli. Photo credit to Carole Raddato.

Phrixus and Helle escape the murderous plot of their stepmother, Ino, with the aid of a flying golden ram. The myth goes that the ram was sent by their mother, Nephele.

#FrescoFriday #AncientRome #History #AncientBluesky🏺

Extremely rough doodle of me recovering in bed from surgery while what i PRESUME was a ghostly entity/delusion known as "the hat man" looms over me worrying if i am okay. I am yelling "i'm FINE!" to reaasure him

i legit encountered a hatman once when i was very sick, but he was just worried about me?? i told him i was fine. he was smudgy, like a stain on the air. his clothes were very old fashioned.

I saw this at the local antiques store. This is a cursed object for sure. I ain’t even touching that.

Reminds me of the song green fields of France m.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Kp...

The Phantom Kangaroo of Värmland In the spring and summer of 1997, the town of Hagfors was shaken by a series of bizarre sightings — of an animal that had no business…

This is the not-so-shocking, spectacular story of the phantom kangaroo that roamed the Swedish countryside in the 90's, a tale more or less unknown outside our borders. But here it is, for the first time (?), for your enjoyment! #highstrangeness #outofplaceanimal #cryptozoology #sweden #weirdness

I see a little silhouetto of a dog.

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fun doggo?

I love train travel but I could really do without that thing where I keep seeing an oddly waxy version of myself on station platforms along the route, frantically signalling a wordless warning.

Could We Domesticate (Non-Bird) Dinosaurs? — Tetrapod Zoology Time for some .speculation about a hypothetical issue…

Could We Domesticate (Non-Bird) Dinosaurs? tetzoo.com/blog/2018/8/...

I’m very satisfied with good clean numbers I wrote here. That’s one of the best number two’s I’ve written if I say so myself.