Panulirus ornatus is a large spiny lobster with 11 larval stages. It migrates annually from the Torres Strait to Yule Island in the Gulf of Papua in order to breed.

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A railway station in India

Protective mother guarding her eggsac. How this lichen huntsman is blending with green , brown and cyan lichen on the tree trunk. [📹 Ashok Manjanath / ashok_manjan]

A macro view of a longhorn beetle’s face [📸 Dara Ojo / explorewithdara]

How fog, clouds and light reflection can create a mirage of a 'highway to heaven' [location: Interstate 80 in Wyoming]

The inside of a spacesuit.

The Kailasa temple in the Ellora Caves, Maharashtra, India is a megalith carved out of one single rock and it is considered one of the most remarkable cave temples in India because of its size, architecture and sculptural treatment.

The water quality in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, is monitored by clams. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city’s water supply automatically

#Today in 1889, Nikola Tesla patented the electric motor

The extraordinary details of a beetle's foot 📸Igor Siwanowicz

Over 800 terrestrial exoplanets visualized and arranged according to their equilibrium temperature and size [🗺️ Halcyon Maps] High resolution: www.halcyonmaps.com/terrestrial-...

The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, coming from carotenoid pigments from its diet of fresh fish.

There are about 600 known active and dormant volcanoes in the world: 450 of these (75%) is here, in the so called Ring of Fire

The power of tiny gains. [✏️ James Clear]

Fanjingshan Temples, Guizhou, China Perching on a spur of rock deep in the Wuling Mountains, these two Buddhist temples — whose origins stretch back centuries — seem almost impossible. But they are real — and their tiles are made from iron because of the extreme wind!

Bees can be blue. Xylocopa caerulea, the blue carpenter bee, is non-aggressive and semi-solitary. They do not build hives like honeybees but instead prefer to live inside dead wood. It is found throughout Southeast Asia, India, and Southern China.

Fun fact There are 36 million Americans of Irish descent and only 5 million people currently living in Ireland. If your ancestors lived in Ireland in the 1800s, you are 9 times more likely to live in the USA than Ireland.

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This is what a baby swordfish looks like on a top of a fingertip [📷 Juan C. Levesque]

Birgus latro, also known as coconut crab, is the largest land-living arthropod in the world

Pareidolia is a phenomenon in which people see faces or other patterns in ambiguous images A perfect example can be seen in this police station in Tōno, Iwate prefecture, Japan. [📸 kyon_K4]

Many birds don't have prominent eyelashes, but some have: secretary birds sport wonderful ones

Ougatou Hotel is a mountain top resort at 2034m on the Utsukushigahara-Kogen Plateau, Japan. In this shot, it looks like a base on another planet. [📸 neevolandscape]

These incredible salt formations can be seen in the south, southwest, and central areas of Iran. The best examples are found in the Zagros mountains that run parallel to Iran’s coast on the Persian Gulf.

Four seasons in the same place: Žabokreky, Slovakia [📸 Jozef Morgos]

There's a lighthouse in Iceland that sits on the highest of three rocks six miles off the Icelandic coastline, built in 1939 on top of an extremely steep and dangerous rocky cliff. It's called the Þrídrangar lighthouse.

This tiny fungus photographed in Taiwan is believed to be Mycena subcyanocephala (近藍蓋小菇). Its blue color only appears in the young stage, making these pictures an extremely precious observation. [📸 Eric Cho / cho_fungi]

Aloe polyphylla (also known as spiral aloe) is well known for its strikingly symmetrical, five-pointed spiral growth habit

A bird with 8 legs. This is how a devoted jacana father protects his chicks, by tucking more than one under each wing

These are the three smallest bones in the human body: malleus, incus, and stapesare They are located in the middle ear. At 3 x 5 mm in size, the stapes is the smallest bone in the human body. All three bones are essential for hearing.

Crotalaria cunninghamii, also known as green birdflower, is a plant of the legume family Fabaceae. Its flower strongly resembles a bird attached by its beak to the central stalk of the flowerhead.

This photo shows six unidentified scientists using ladders and a large chalk board to work out equations for satellite orbits at Systems Labs, California. The set of pictures was captured by J. R. Eyerman for Life Magazine in 1957.

The male Flemish Giant rabbit can weigh up to 22 pounds (10 kg) and the female can get up to 20 pounds (9 kg). At most, they grow to be 2.5 feet long (70 cm) [📹 Coelho Gigante Dois Irmãos]

Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂 Every autumn the larch pines turn orange and the smiley face stands out.

Centuripe is a town and comune in the province of Enna, Sicily whose anthropomorphic shape when seen from an aerial perspective, became very famous on the internet [📷 Pio A. Peri]

The Rocket Building in Saitama, Japan Designed and constructed in the 1980s, it was originally meant to house a space and astronomy museum, with a rotating observation deck on the top floor. It is now home to rental apartments, a café, and an educational daycare facility. [📸 joannakawecki]

The Megalodon is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 2.3 to 2.6 million years ago. Fossil remains suggest that it reached a maximum length of 20 meters Here's a comparison between its jaws and a modern great white shark

Asperitas are ominous-looking clouds occurring mostly with Stratocumulus and Altocumulus. These ones have been photographed over Gorham, New Hampshire on April 23, 2023 [📷 Crystal Lee]

Dendrosenecio kilimanjari is a giant groundsel found atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. The giant grounsels of the genus Dendrosenecio evolved, about a million years ago, from a Senecio that established itself on Mount Kilimanjaro.

The great eared nightjar (Lyncornis macrotis) [📷 Jenisha Aggarwal]

The Blue Java is a hardy, cold tolerant banana cultivar known for its sweet aromatic fruit, which is said to have an ice cream like consistency and flavor reminiscent of vanilla

Lithops are Namibian and South African plants that have evolved to look like stones. This remarkable adaptation helps them blend in with their surroundings and avoid being eaten by herbivores.

Did you know you can estimate the remaining daylight using your hands and the sun?

Every Veterans Day, November 11 at exactly 11:11 am, the sun aligns perfectly with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona

According to Hive Systems your passwords should be at least 18 mixed up characters for maximum security. Here's how long it would take a hacker to come up with as many combinations or passphrases before guessing your password [ read more, methodology: buff.ly/3Mw5nDM ]

An albino tree is unable to produce chlorophyll & survives by obtaining sugar through neighboring trees' roots.

This is how confusing perspective messes with your mind. First you think he's wearing heels, and then...

This close up picture clearly shows where a snake's venom comes from. The fangs of a rattlesnake (left) and a Gaboon viper (right). [📷 Juan Alvarez]

In 1950, the population of Cairo, Egypt was 2,493,514. Population is now estimated at 22,183,201. Overall, from 1960 to 2023 the population of Egypt increased from 26.6 million to 110.9 million people: a growth of 316.7% in 62 years. This is a view of Cairo from above.