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Side-blotched Lizard - Uta stansburiana - Garfield County UT - September 2016 by Steven Mlodinow

Photographed at Upper Calf Creek Falls. This species is common thru much of the western US.

Interestingly (from Wikipedia): Male side-blotched lizards exhibit distinct polymorphism in their throat colors, and can be divided into three different categories. Each of these three different morphs varies in how it competes for mates, and variation within a breeding population is maintained by a rock-paper-scissors mechanism of frequency-dependent sexual selection. A cycle is created where the least common morph of one breeding season often has the largest number of mature living offspring in the next year. This is because one morph does particularly well against another, but poorly in comparison to the third. See Wikipedia for more detail

Crafting tusks from polymorph plastic by Sharon

Admiring St Pauls by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Luminescence Open Day, Saturday 25th May, 2013 by Institute of Making

Glowing Neon tubes

Morph in the Jungle at Lloyds Bank by Matthew Wells

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Big Ant, Little Ant by Steve Begin

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These ants that I found in Cuba are an amazing example of polymorphism.

Both ants are adults, but one is a soldier and one is a scout.

There is a size in between that are the general workers (leaf cutters), and there is a caste that is even smaller that acts as a nurse.

Looking for the blind albino crabs by Christian Uhlig

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Looking for the blind albino crabs (Munidopsis polymorpha) at Jameos del Aqua

pone.0030524.g003.png by PLOS ONE PHYLOGENY

Conservation of AS induced polymorphisms (AIPs) between homologs of the Arabidopsis AGAMOUS (AG) protein. A neighbor-joining tree illustrates the phylogenetic relationship between homologs of the Arabidopsis AG protein. Nodes with less than 70% bootstrap support are indicated with grey triangles. Except for Zea mays, which was included as outgroup species, the taxa within the tree are either members of the Brassicaceae subfamily or the Asteridae class. Residues behind taxon names correspond to the AIP sequence segment and an asterisk indicates that only the inserted residue(s) were found. No insertions were found in Arabidopsis and in P. hybrida. The distinct insertions found in R. raphanistrum might be the result of different allelic variants or sequencing errors. Note that the sequences from the taxa within the Asteridae are homologs of the FARINELLI (FAR) gene in Antirrhinum majus. The full names of the species used in this tree are provided in the Material and Methods section. The alignment corresponding to this tree is provided in Figure S5.

Gentiana tibetica #4 by James Gaither

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Best viewed @ large size

Gentianaceae - Edges of cultivated land, roadsides, forest margins; 2100-4200 m in S and SE Xizang Province (Tibet); Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim

Tibetan Gentian, xi zang qin jiao

Shown: Detail of inflorescence displaying flowers and buds; flowers to 2.6 x 3.2 cm

"This is a cosmopolitan genus, occurring in alpine habitats of temperate regions of Asia, Europe and the Americas. Some species also occur in northwest Africa, eastern Australia and New Zealand. They consist of annual, biennial and perennial plants. Some are evergreen, others are not.

"The name is a tribute to Gentius, an Illyrian king who was thought to have found out that the herbs had tonic properties." (Wikipedia)

"Gentians have opposite leaves that are sometimes arranged in a basal rosette, and trumpet-shaped flowers that are usually deep blue or azure, but may vary from white, creamy and yellow to red. Many species also show considerable polymorphism with respect to flower color. Typically, blue-flowered species predominate in the Northern Hemisphere, with red-flowered species dominant in the Andes (where bird pollination is probably more heavily favored by natural selection). White-flowered species are scattered throughout the range of the genus but dominate in New Zealand. All gentian species have terminal tubular flowers and most are pentamerous, i.e. with 5 corolla lobes (petals), and 5 sepals, but 4-7 in some species. The style is rather short or absent. The corolla shows folds (= plicae) between the lobes. The ovary is mostly sessile and has nectary glands." (Wikipedia)

In traditional Chinese medicine, G. tibetica is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and to calm nervousness.

Morphological description of G. tibetica:

www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=2...

My complete set of images of G. tibetica:

www.flickr.com/photos/jim-sf/sets/72157628774992609/

Photographed in U.C. Botanical Garden at Berkeley - Berkeley, California

White Rhinoceros and Zebra by Brian @ BSE (UK) (No images or Invites, please)

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To view more of my images, of Rhinoceros, please click "here" ! Click any image to view large!

Rhinoceros, often abbreviated to rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to Southern Asia. Members of the rhinoceros family are characterized by their large size (they are some of the largest remaining megafauna, with all of the species able to reach one tonne or more in weight); as well as by an herbivorous diet; a thick protective skin, 1.5–5 cm thick, formed from layers of collagen positioned in a lattice structure; relatively small brains for mammals this size (400–600 g); and a large horn. They generally eat leafy material, although their ability to ferment food in their hindgut allows them to subsist on more fibrous plant matter, if necessary. Unlike other perissodactyls, the two African species of rhinoceros lack teeth at the front of their mouths, relying instead on their lips to pluck food. Rhinoceros are killed by humans for their horns, which are bought and sold on the black market, and which are used by some cultures for ornamental or traditional medicinal purposes. East Asia, specifically Vietnam, is the largest market for rhino horns. By weight, rhino horns cost as much as gold on the black market. People grind up the horns and then consume them believing the dust has therapeutic properties. The horns are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails. Both African species and the Sumatran rhinoceros have two horns, while the Indian and Javan rhinoceros have a single horn. The IUCN Red List identifies three of the species as critically endangered. The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek: ῥῑνόκερως, which is composed of ῥῑνο- (rhino-, "nose") and κέρας (keras, "horn"). The plural in English is rhinoceros or rhinoceroses. The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is crash or herd. The name has been in use since the 14th century. The family Rhinocerotidae consists of only four extant genera: Ceratotherium (White rhinoceros), Dicerorhinus (Sumatran rhinoceros), Diceros (Black rhinoceros) and Rhinoceros (Indian and Javan rhinoceros). The living species fall into three categories. The two African species, the white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros, belong to the tribe Dicerotini, which originated in the middle Miocene, about 14.2 million years ago. The species diverged during the early Pliocene (about 5 million years ago). The main difference between black and white rhinos is the shape of their mouths – white rhinos have broad flat lips for grazing, whereas black rhinos have long pointed lips for eating foliage. There are two living Rhinocerotini species, the Indian rhinoceros and the Javan rhinoceros, which diverged from one another about 10 million years ago. The Sumatran rhinoceros is the only surviving representative of the most primitive group, the Dicerorhinini, which emerged in the Miocene (about 20 million years ago). A subspecific hybrid white rhino (Ceratotherium s. simum × C. s. cottoni) was bred at the Dvůr Králové Zoo (Zoological Garden Dvur Kralove nad Labem) in the Czech Republic in 1977. Interspecific hybridisation of black and white rhinoceros has also been confirmed. While the black rhinoceros has 84 chromosomes (diploid number, 2N, per cell), all other rhinoceros species have 82 chromosomes. However, chromosomal polymorphism might lead to varying chromosome counts. For instance, in a study there were three northern white rhinoceroses with 81 chromosomes. There are two subspecies of white rhinoceros: the southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) and the northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). As of 2013, the southern subspecies has a wild population of 20,405 – making them the most abundant rhino subspecies in the world. However, the northern subspecies was critically endangered, with as few as four individuals in the wild; the possibility of complete extinction in the wild having been noted since June 2008. Five are known to be held in captivity, one of which resides at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Four born in a zoo in the Czech Republic were transferred to a wildlife refuge in Kenya in December 2009, in an effort to have the animals reproduce and save the subspecies. There is no conclusive explanation of the name white rhinoceros. A popular theory that "white" is a distortion of either the Afrikaans word wyd or the Dutch word wijd (or its other possible spellings whyde, weit, etc.,) meaning wide and referring to the rhino's square lips is not supported by linguistic studies. The white rhino has an immense body and large head, a short neck and broad chest. Females weigh 1,600 kg (4,000 lb) and males 2,400 kg (5,000 lb). the head-and-body length is 3.5–4.6 m (11–15 ft) and a shoulder height of 1.8–2 m (5.9–6.6 ft). On its snout it has two horns. The front horn is larger than the other horn and averages 90 cm (35 in) in length and can reach 150 cm (59 in). The white rhinoceros also has a prominent muscular hump that supports its relatively large head. The colour of this animal can range from yellowish brown to slate grey. Most of its body hair is found on the ear fringes and tail bristles, with the rest distributed rather sparsely over the rest of the body. White rhinos have the distinctive flat broad mouth that is used for grazing.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

pone.0039429.g001.png by PLOS ONE PHYLOGENY

Gecko phylogeny and the evolution of adhesive toepads.Maximum likelihood tree showing phylogenetic relationships among gecko genera. Toepad traits, including the presence of adhesive toepads, toepad shape and the presence of paraphalanges, are illustrated by colored squares on the tips of the branches (squares with two colors indicate polymorphism within the clade). Rectangles at internal nodes represent ancestral presence or absence probabilities of adhesive toepads inferred using the 6-parameter binary-state speciation and extinction (BiSSE) model. Details for lettered clades are presented in Table 1. Representative images illustrate a variety of gecko toepad morphologies. Single digits from representative gecko species illustrating the morphological diversity of paraphalangeal elements (in gray with stippling) are shown on the right. Clades enclosed in gray boxes are shown in greater detail in Figures 3 and 4.

Les Sources Occultes 001/999 _DDC6470 by thierry ehrmann

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999

blog.ehrmann.org/films2/les-sources-occultes-001999.html

Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...

Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions.

En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...

Les Sources Occultes offre aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.

Réalisation : Laurent Courau

Scénario : thierry Ehrmann

Roll With It by Sarah Matthews by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Shakespearen Quotes by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Totally Morphomatic! by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Agatized coral (Tertiary; Withlacoochee River, Georgia, USA) 16 by James St. John

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Agatized coral from the Tertiary of Georgia, USA.

Parts of Georgia and Florida are known for having geodized, agatized corals. The original coral skeletons were composed of aragonite (CaCO3, calcium carbonate), a polymorph of calcite. The fossil corals have since been silicified and geodized, resulting in chalcedony-lined cavities / vugs.

Thie example is remarkable for its rainbow colors.

Stratigraphy: supposedly from marine sedimentary rocks in the Hawthorn Group, Tertiary

Locality: undisclosed / unrecorded site attributed to the Withlacoochee River, near the Georgia-Florida border, far-southern Georgia, USA

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Info. at:

www.apalachee-minerals.com/agatizedcoral1

Green Fingers by Laura-Kate Draws by Matthew Wells

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No. 3/20: Timeless by Matthew Wells

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I Spy Morph by Rachael & Phillippa Corcutt by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Common Murre (bridled guillemot - polymorphism) by Bryan Batley

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Machias Seal Island

Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) by Brian Carruthers-Dublin-Eire

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Measurements

spanwidth min.: 54 cm

spanwidth max.: 60 cm

size min.: 32 cm

size max.: 36 cm

Breeding

incubation min.: 11 days

incubation max.: 12 days

fledging min.: 17 days

fledging max.: 17 days

broods 15

eggs min.: 1

eggs max.: 25

Status: Widespread summer visitor to Ireland from April to August.

Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population is currently evaluated as secure.

Identification: Despite its obvious song, relatively infrequently seen. In flight, can be mistaken for a bird of prey such as Sparrowhawk, but has rapid wingbeats below the horizontal plane - ie. the wings are not raised above the body. Adult male Cuckoos are a uniform grey on the head, neck, back, wings and tail. The underparts are white with black barring. Adult females can appear in one of two forms. The so-called grey-morph resembles the adult male plumage, but has throat and breast barred black and white with yellowish wash. The rufous-morph has the grey replaced by rufous, with strong black barring on the wings, back and tail. Juvenile Cuckoos resemble the female rufous-morph, but are darker brown above.

Similar Species: Sparrowhawk

Call: The song is probably one of the most recognisable and well-known of all Irish bird species. The male gives a distinctive “wuck-oo”, which is occasionally doubled “wuck-uck-ooo”. The female has a distinctive bubbling “pupupupu”. The song period is late April to late June.

Diet: Mainly caterpillars and other insects.

Breeding: Widespread in Ireland, favouring open areas which hold their main Irish host species – Meadow Pipit. Has a remarkable breeding biology unlike any other Irish breeding species.

Wintering: Cuckoos winter in central and southern Africa.

To minimise the chance of being recognised and thus attacked by the birds they are trying to parasitize, female cuckoos have evolved different guises.

The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. On hatching, the young cuckoo ejects the host's eggs and chicks from the nest, so the hosts end up raising a cuckoo chick rather than a brood of their own. To fight back, reed warblers (a common host across Europe) have a first line of defence: they attack, or ‘mob’, the female cuckoo, which reduces the chance that their nest is parasitized.

To deter the warbler from attacking, the colouring of the grey cuckoo mimics sparrow hawks, a common predator of reed warblers. However, other females are bright rufous (brownish-red). The presence of alternate colour morphs in the same species is rare in birds, but frequent among the females of parasitic cuckoo species. The new research shows that this is another cuckoo trick: cuckoos combat reed warbler mobbing by coming in different guises.

In the study, the researchers manipulated local frequencies of the more common grey colour cuckoo and the less common (in the United Kingdom) rufous colour cuckoo by placing models of the birds at neighbouring nests. They then recorded how the experience of watching their neighbours mob changed reed warbler responses to both cuckoos and a sparrow hawk at their own nest.

They found that reed warblers increased their mobbing, but only to the cuckoo morph that their neighbours had mobbed. Therefore, as one cuckoo morph increases in frequency, local host populations will become alerted specifically to that morph. This means the alternate morph will be more likely to slip past host defences and lay undetected. This is the first time that ‘social learning’ has been documented in the evolution of mimicry as well as the evolution of different observable characteristics - such as colour - in the same species (called polymorphism).

From the University of Cambridge “When mimicry becomes less effective, evolving to look completely different can be a successful trick. Our research shows that individuals assess disguises not only from personal experience, but also by observing others. However, because their learning is so specific, this social learning then selects for alternative cuckoo disguises and the arms race continues.”.

“It’s well known that cuckoos have evolved various egg types which mimic those of their hosts in order to combat rejection. This research shows that cuckoos have also evolved alternate female morphs to sneak through the hosts' defenses. This explains why many species which use mimicry, such as the cuckoo, evolve different guises.”

DSCN4801.Pouring buffer.DanWhalen,VirginiaPearson,MarciaButler by Edward Bujak

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Princeton Molecular Biology Workshop

at the

Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

April 1, 2, 15, and 18, 2009

This photo is from

April 18 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Photo by Ed Bujak.

Uria aalge by Ed Fulton

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Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4,5-5,6 L IS USM, development in Lightroom.

Photographed on a birdwatchers' boat trip to the Farne Islands, Northumberland.

Uria aalge - Common Guillemot (Common Murre) - Trottellumme - Zeekoet - Guillemot de Troïl - Arao común - Uria - Sillgrissla - Lomvie - Nurzyk zwyczajny - . . .

Wikipedia (edited): "The common murre or common guillemot (Uria aalge) is a large auk. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring in low-Arctic and boreal waters in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. It spends most of its time at sea, only coming to land to breed on rocky cliff shores or islands.

Guillemots are fast in direct flight but are not very agile. They can manoeuvre better underwater, where they typically dive to depths of 30–60m. They breed in colonies at high densities; nesting pairs may be in bodily contact with their neighbours. They make no nest; their single egg is incubated on a bare rock ledge on a cliff face.

Some individuals in the North Atlantic, known as "bridled guillemots", have a white ring around the eye extending back as a white line. This is not a distinct subspecies, but a polymorphism that becomes more common the farther north the birds breed."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farne_Islands

www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4519-Uria-aalge

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_murre

Protector of Whitley Bay by Matthew Wells

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DSCN4819.Computer LoggerPro with ProScope and Trans.BarbaraBess-Pashak by Edward Bujak

Princeton Molecular Biology Workshop

at the

Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

April 1, 2, 15, and 18, 2009

This photo is from

April 18 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Photo by Ed Bujak.

Polymorphism, Sue Guthrie (creator), Morph's Epic Art Adventure, London Street, City of London, EC3R 7LP (2) by f1jherbert

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8/23 : Growing Together by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

(Inocybe) Mallocybe delecta by Jacqueline Labrecque

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JML02881 CMMF026344

Basides étroitement clavées, hyalines, à contenu verdâtre réfringent, 28-39,1 x 7,9-8,3 µm

Spores ellipsoïdes à subcylindriques, aplaties sur un côté, lisses, avec appendice hilaire indistinct, avec guttule verdâtre et contenu hyalin/rosâtre, (7)7,2-9,2(9,9) x (3,9)4,1-4,6(4,9) µm, 8,2 x 4,3 µm en moyenne, Q = (1,6)1,7-2,1(2,2), Q moyen = 1,9

Cheilocystides abondantes, à paroi mince, polymorphes, fusoïdes obtuses à subcapitées, cylindriques, recourbées à déformées à l’apex, clavées, segmentées à la base, non incrustées, (7,8)10,4-19,2(21,6) x (3,2)3,7-6,6 (7) µm

Pleurocystides absentes

Caulocystides présentes à l’apex, peu abondantes, clavées à ventrues, segmentées à la base

Pileipellis non étudié

Boucles présentes à tous les niveaux

Recherche et révision des travaux: R. Labbé

Étude microscopique et microphotographie: J. Labrecque

Suggestion d'identification: B. Matheny

Macroscopie:

flickr.com/photos/19369983@N06/9540883409/

No. 18: Fish Ahoy by Matthew Wells

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No. 54/56: Canary Morph by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Borboleta by Rodrigo Soldon Souza

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As borboletas são insectos da ordem Lepidoptera classificados nas super-famílias Hesperioidea e Papilionoidea, que constituem o grupo informal Rhopalocera.

As borboletas têm dois pares de asas membranosas cobertas de escamas e peças bucais adaptadas a sucção. Distinguem-se das traças (mariposas) pelas antenas rectilíneas que terminam numa bola, pelos hábitos de vida diurnos, pela metamorfose que decorre dentro de uma crisálida rígida e pelo abdómen fino e alongado. Quando em repouso, as borboletas dobram as suas asas para cima.

As borboletas são importantes polinizadores de diversas espécies de plantas.

O ciclo de vida das borboletas engloba as seguintes etapas:

1) ovo→ fase pré-larval

2) larva→ chamada também de lagarta ou taturana,

3) pupa→ que se desenvolve dentro da crisálida (ou casulo)

4) imago→ fase adulta

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A butterfly is any of several groups of mainly day-flying insects of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, butterflies' life cycle consists of four parts, egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). All the many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths.

Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Some, like the Monarch, will migrate over long distances. Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Butterflies are important economically as agents of pollination. The caterpillars of some butterflies eat harmful insects. A few species are pests because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees. Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts.

DSCN4823.Computer LoggerPro image of gel by Edward Bujak

Princeton Molecular Biology Workshop

at the

Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

April 1, 2, 15, and 18, 2009

This photo is from

April 18 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Photo by Ed Bujak.

Les Sources Occultes 001/999 - 08 by thierry ehrmann

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999

blog.ehrmann.org/films2/les-sources-occultes-001999.html

Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...

Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions.

En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...

Les Sources Occultes offre aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.

Réalisation : Laurent Courau

Scénario : thierry Ehrmann

Back of the Three Morphs by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Small Green Umbrellas by Kata Tölgyesi

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Tuzson János Botanikus Kert, Nyíregyháza

Morphlowers Please! by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

DSCN4818.Computer LoggerPro with ProScope and Trans.BarbaraBess-Pashak by Edward Bujak

Princeton Molecular Biology Workshop

at the

Springside School, Philadelphia, PA

April 1, 2, 15, and 18, 2009

This photo is from

April 18 - Human VNTR Polymorphism

Photo by Ed Bujak.

The Black Bullet Ant by Yalamarthi Prakash

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Bullet Ant

Paraponera is a genus of ant consisting of a single species, the so-called bullet ant (P. clavata), named on account of its powerful and potent sting, which is said to be as painful as being shot with a bullet. It is called by the locals, "Hormiga Veinticuatro," or "24-hour ant", from 24 hours of pain that follow a stinging.[1] The bullet ant inhabits humid lowland rainforests from Nicaragua south to Paraguay. Workers are 18-25 mm long and look like stout, reddish-black, wingless wasps.

The pain caused by this insect's sting is purported to be greater than that of any other Hymenopteran, and is ranked as the most painful according to the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. It is described as causing "waves of burning, throbbing, all-consuming pain that continues unabated for up to 24 hours". In some indigenous communities, to enter man-hood a boy has to endure being stung by the ant 5 times without screaming.[1] A paralyzing neurotoxic peptide isolated from the venom is poneratoxin.

Paraponera is predaceous and, like all primitive poneromorphs, does not display polymorphism in the worker caste. Colonies consist of several hundred individuals and are usually situated at the bases of trees, workers foraging arboreally in the area directly above the nest for insect prey and nectaries, often as far as the upper canopy.

Stefan Rudin DSC_7270 by achrntatrps

Stefan Rudin, par ailleurs aussi dj, patron de label et artiste polymorphe, aime jouer avec les

faders, boutons, disques, voltages et divers déclencheurs. On pourrait dire aussi qu’il aime

vraiment brancher des câbles et écouter ce que cela donne au moment de tourner le

bouton. Stefan Rudin crée sur scène autant de sons que possible, mixés chacun sur leur

propre canal et improvise alors une conflagration sonore possiblement aléatoire.

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999 _DDC6909 by thierry ehrmann

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999

blog.ehrmann.org/films2/les-sources-occultes-001999.html

Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...

Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions.

En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...

Les Sources Occultes offre aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.

Réalisation : Laurent Courau

Scénario : thierry Ehrmann

No. 27/56: Morph and Friends Explore London by Matthew Wells

The 56 Full Sized Morphs Are:

The 23 Mini Morphs Are:

Les Sources Occultes 001/999 - 06 by thierry ehrmann

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999

blog.ehrmann.org/films2/les-sources-occultes-001999.html

Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...

Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions.

En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...

Les Sources Occultes offre aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.

Réalisation : Laurent Courau

Scénario : thierry Ehrmann

Flirting Butterflies by Abdur Rashid (army7)

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A butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage and a spectacular metamorphosis into a familiar and colourful winged adult form, and most species being day-flying, they regularly attract attention. The diverse patterns formed by their brightly coloured wings and their erratic yet graceful flight have made butterfly watching a popular hobby.

Butterflies comprise of the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (Superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (Superfamily Hedyloidea). Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. They are known to migrate over large distances. Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Economically, butterflies are important by virtue of their being one of the major agents of pollination, in addition to a number of species which are pests on domestic crops and trees.

No. 18/56: The Bard by Matthew Wells

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The Sailor at Paddington Station by Matthew Wells

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Aragonite needles in vug in dolostone (Vinton Member, Logan Formation, Lower Mississippian; Route 16 roadcut northeast of Frazeysburg, Ohio, USA) 6 by James St. John

Vug with aragonite crystals in dolostone in the Mississippian of Ohio, USA.

This rock has a small vug containing numerous clear to whitish needles of aragonite (CaCO3 - calcium carbonate). Aragonite is a less common polymorph of calcite and is rarely found in Ohio. The host rock is a glauconitic fossiliferous dolostone having crinoid stem columnals. The green spots in parts of the surrounding matrix are glauconite (click on the photo to zoom in & look around).

Stratigraphy: dolostone horizon below inferred Rushville Shale, upper Vinton Member, upper Logan Formation, ~middle Osagean Stage, upper Lower Mississippian

Locality: Trinway West 6 Outcrop - lower slopes of the eastern part of roadcut on the northwestern side of Rt. 16, 1.0 miles northeast of the Rt. 16-Old Riley Road intersection, northeast of the town of Frazeysburg & west of the town of Trinway, northwestern Muskingum County, Ohio, USA (~40° 08' 46.98" North latitude, 82° 04' 56.49" West longitude)

Back of Whizz Bang! by Matthew Wells

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999 _DDC6669 by thierry ehrmann

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Les Sources Occultes 001/999

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Entre effroi et merveilles, une zone mouvante aux portes du futur et des enfers...

Les Sources Occultes vous entraînent au coeur d'un univers polymorphe dont les clés et les motifs se révéleront au fur et à mesure des épisodes de cette série de fictions.

En attendant un final apocalyptique, au sens premier du terme, qui révélera la structure générale sous la forme d'un long-métrage...

Les Sources Occultes offre aussi une nouvelle porte d'entrée dans le labyrinthe multidimensionnel de la Demeure du Chaos à celles et ceux qui postulent à notre casting, une occasion unique de pénétrer les arcanes de l'esprit de la Salamandre.

Réalisation : Laurent Courau

Scénario : thierry Ehrmann

Shaftesbury Theatre on the Morph by Matthew Wells

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