A well-preserved trilobite specimen from Morocco that lived roughly 400m years ago

Trilobites may be the archetypal fossils, symbols of an archaic world long swept beneath the ruthless road grader of time. But we should all look so jaunty after half a billion years. At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Brian T. Huber, chairman of paleobiology, points to a flawless specimen of Walliserops, a five-inch trilobite that swam the Devonian seas around what is now Morocco some 150 million years before the first dinosaurs hatched.

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Percent of Female-Run Farms by U.S. County

via First We Feast (see source link)

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Happy New Year!

"Out with the old, in with the new, may you be happy the whole year through. Happy New Year!"

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Winter Miracle in Japan

By Photographer Azul Obscura's own words: "New Year's Day of 2015, it was heavy snow in Kyoto. The next day morning, I went to Daigoji without hesitation. There was incredibly beautiful scenery, I felt like I was in a dream..."

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Painted White

A unique view of Oregon's Painted Hills, under a pristine coat of snow, on an unseasonably cold -10°F November morning.

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Laplanders

Via the National Library of Norway / Flickr Commons

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Armored Motor Truck

This postcard depicts a Jeffery Armored Car No.1, built by the Thomas B. Jeffery Company, and used by General Pershing in his troop training in Columbus, New Mexico. Photo by Walter H. Horne, ca. 1916. Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library / Flickr Commons.

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