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🌋 Timelapse of Popocatépetl, Mexico 🇲🇽 (Oct 19, 2025) Watch Popocatépetl in action — a mesmerizing timelapse showing continuous degassing and ash emissions rising from one of the most active stratovolcanoes in the world. A stunning display of subduction-zone volcanism beneath the Mexican Volcanic Belt! 🔥 #Popocatepetl #MexicoVolcano #VolcanoEruption #Volcanology #Geology #GeologyPage

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Raplee Ridge, a striking geographic feature in southeastern Utah, is commonly called “Raplee anticline,” or “Raplee monocline.

A monarch butterfly chandelier! Sometimes found in large clumps, monarchs overwintering along California’s central coast prefer to hang out in eucalyptus trees, Monterey cypress and Monterey pines.

Photo by Joanna Gilkeson / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Embodying the realms of Art, Luxury and Natural History, our fossilized giant clamshells are staggering in size and absolutely exquisite. Tridacna gigantea is a species of giant clam that went extinct approximately 180,000 years ago. These sensational specimens were unearthed deep in the limestone quarries of Kenya, on the East African coast. Meticulous preparation and polishing reveals a natural beauty unlike any other - a glassy, lustrous interior expressing soft and warm dreamlike hues.

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Resplendent Canadian ammonite, 14.75”

Now THAT'S a Rhino!!! 😍

Majestic woolly rhinoceras skull

New acquisition - sensational Green River Formation triptych with stingray! Entire exhibit measures 57” high x 75” wide.

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These fossilized crinoids look like they came from another planet. They are related to starfish and sea urchins and are 280 million years old.

More about the alien fossil that inspired the Matrix movies: https://earthlymission.com/jimbacrinus-crinoid-fossil-well-preserved-permian-period-280-million-year-old-gascoyne-junction-western-australia/

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in 1872, Norwegian explorer, Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was born near Oslo, Norway.

Amundsen left his mark on the heroic era of polar exploration as one of the most successful polar explorers ever born. Achieving many great explorative 'firsts' during his lifetime. Most notably reaching the South Pole accompanied by Olav O. Bjaaland, Helmer J. Hanssen, Sverre H. Hassel and Oscar Wisting on December 14, 1911. They had beaten Robert Falcon Scott's Polar party by one month.

His career began at the young age of 15, when Amundsen began to study medicine, before he left his studies behind to go to sea. Here Amundsen worked his way up to the rank of mate and by 1897 he sailed as first mate on the 'Belgica' in a Belgian expedition led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery. This expedition was the first to winter in the Antarctic after the 'Belgica' became trapped in the ice of the Bellinghausen Sea, near Peter I Island.

Amundsen's other important polar 'first' was to sail the North-West Passage, the seaway across the Arctic which links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. His main objective of this journey was to establish whether the magnetic north pole had moved since it was discovered in 1831. Although it was a great disappointment to him that the pole wasn't reached, Amundsen did prove that the pole was moving which was of huge scientific significance.

📸 Roald Amundsen, Public Domain