thedorseyshawexperience:

FYI, whales are spewing rainbows now.

Honorable Mention: Nature Category… National Geographic announced the winners of its 2011 Photography Contest.

THE FOX & THE HOUND… In an unusual role reversal, a fox was spotted trailing a beagle in a forest near Montreal, Canada. The odd fox behavior was an effort to protect four newborn fox cubs nearby. (Photo: Mircea Costina / Caters News/Yahoo)

Surging waves hit against the breakwater in Udono in a port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. A powerful typhoon was bearing down on Japan’s tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast Wednesday, approaching a nuclear power plant crippled in that disaster and prompting calls for the evacuation of more than a million people. (AP Photo/Chunichi Shimbun, Daiji Yanagida) [See more photos]

discoverynews:

A look at the budwing mantis.

He eats goldfish and he talks to dogs, it seems.

World’s First Blue Rose

Named “Applause,” the rose is genetically-modified to synthesize delphinidin, a pigment found in most blue flowers. Today Suntory announced the rose will be for sale at select florists in North America, beginning early November. While the flower might appear more silver-purple than sky-blue, Applause is the nearest to a true blue rose yet.

Blue roses have a mythic quality since they, until recently, were impossible to grow. 

[Wired]