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Ok, so everyone knows about Walrus tusks but this photo gives a view of its other teeth on both the upper and lower jaws. I don't recall ever seeing a photo of a wild Walrus where the teeth were visible. It is as if the dentist had just asked him to open wide. Walrus tusks are modified canine teeth that are possessed by both males and females. The rest of the teeth are variable in number, but usually they have about 18 including tusks, but as many as 38 have been recorded, which is more than humans (adult humans have 32). The teeth also erupt simultaneously and the root cones can expand in the growing jaw of a young Walrus, which means they have no need for extra "wisdom teeth" as they get larger. This mechanism of expanding root cones is apparently not known in any other mammal.
You can also see the muscular tongue, which is used for feeding. They seal their lips around bivalve molluscs such as clams, then rapidly withdraw their tongue like a piston, creating a vacuum strong enough to suck the contents out of the clam shells. The Walrus palate has a special vaulted structure to create this suction.
This wild Walrus was loafing in the shallows in north Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. And one final thing; that "scar" that looks like a bullet hole behind the eye is actually its ear hole. And they have a very good sense of hearing.
Like a ring of broken teeth the remains of an ancient oak protect it's progeny. Possibly grown from an acorn that fell into the still standing trunk of it's parent.
Is this reincarnation? Or just continuation of a theme...
I awoke this morning to discover that an ice storm had hit Chicago overnight.
chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/12/ice-storm-hits-chicago-im...
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019.
Camera on tripod
AB800 through large softbox directly above camera
580EXII high and behind Trixie, camera left.
All triggered with PocketWizards
RO and the Clod...errr Cloud
Remarkable Oblivion Armor (chest)
Remarkable Oblivion Boots
Miamai Jeuness Pants
Blitz Arm Knives
Miamai Reka 'hawk
Contraption - Smile (teeth on a string)
A previously unpublished picture of a model from 2017, Shark Teeth Corrugation, folded from Khepera paper. You can read more about the model and find more pictures at origami.kosmulski.org/models/shark-teeth-corrugation
Totally loving the lowkey thing - thanks to crazy Tuesday! Now experimenting with it. Hope you like it.
The cogwheel(1 of a pair) on the side of a cork screw / extractor.
The diamaeter of this cogwheel is under 1 inch.
Macro Mondays, theme # Cogwheel.
Massive structures of rock hard blue ice stand up 20 meters into the sky on the Pemberton Icecap glacier. This glacier is only a two hour drive from the City of Vancouver and it is probably the most remote place in the entire province. We explored this glacier three days ago by snowmobile and when I saw these huge ice structures I had to photograph them. I shot this photo with nine shots, handheld, and assembled them into this panorama image.
After trying to go out and shoot some images in my yard to blow off some pent up anxiety and disgust by being artistic, I was only frustrated further by the super low contrast and grey sky's. Nothing was popping even though there was some color peaking through under the snow. It's been snowing here all week and the sun hasn't really been peeking through the clouds. A rarity really here in Colorado. And I didn't really want to get too much snow or water onto or into my Tokina AT-X macro lens, so I took shelter in the garage and started to look around at the things I see out there every day.
I have several bicycles in the garage. They always have cool bits on them...
Shot using a Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 Macro lens with a 5mm extension tube.