Good luck in the enormous ocean, baby 🐢

Women grinding grain in a village in India, 1900

🤯 This is what an electric bus with a damaged battery looks like.

Making Cocaine.

🍎 Picking apples, c. 1890s

Saratoga Spring, USA 1916

A special stage of larval development of fish of the elopsoid superorder - eel-like, tarpon-like, mescomere, and albule-like. The leptocephalus of the common river eel is best known.

German soldiers in the trenches, WWI, c. 1914-1915

Japan divers capture rare footage of live giant squid.

The leafy sea dragon, aka sea pegasus (lat. Phycodurus eques), is a sea fish, a relative of the seahorse.

🦃 A lady buys a turkey from a farmer for Thanksgiving, 1927

A fusion of different eras

A pregnant guinea pig may change its mind about becoming a mother🤨

Then the cubs are dissolved inside her body or canned for several years.

🇬🇧 Children of St. Ives, UK, c. 1900

👨‍🦼 An autonomous exoskeleton from a French startup that allows disabled people to walk, crouch and even climb steps.

Trachypterus belong to the group of sloth fish, aptly named for their thin, ribbon-like bodies.

Ancient Assyrian relief depicting the clash of Elamite and Assyrian forces at the Battle of Ulai, 653 BC. In the top left corner an Elamite archer can be seen trying to protect wounded Elamite king Teumman (kneeling). The result of the engagement was a clear Assyrian victory, with both the Elamite king and his son being killed in the battle.

Father knows the best

What an amazing little organism, this Hawaiian squid is.

It hunts at night by pretending to be a reflection of the moon in the water. The luminescent bacteria Vibrio fischeri, which live in a special light organ near the eyes, help it do this.

A member of the 26th Infantry Division, part of Patton’s Third Army, enjoys some hot chow for Thanksgiving in France, November 1944

A fusion of different eras