rhamphotheca:

MY CARRION PLANTS ARE BLOOMING!

Stapelia gigantea is a South African succulent flowering plant in the Stapelia genus of plants commonly referred to as the Carrion or Toad Plant. Its releases a foul carrion like stench, and is pollenated by blowflies.

(this isn’t mine, but its pretty identical)

(photo: Michael Joachim Lucke)

moleskinelovers:

in the belly of the beast… by beastlybeasties

rhamphotheca:

entomolog: Scorpionfly… This is so sexy omfg.

leighsus:

Gin Lane (1751). An etching by William Hogarth. One of my favourite pieces of art.

posthorn:

Zinc etching by Max Hunziker for a 1945 edition of Simplicius Simplicissimus.

(Source: wehdile)

skullandbone:

dinosaur gesture drawings at Museum of Natural History in DC.

from Johnny Wander

anatomicallyincorrect:

Views of a Foetus in the Womb (c. 1510 - 1512) is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.