Natural World Discoveries and Biological Curiosity Photos

am i cooked? **EDIT: I was asleep when it flew into my room and woke up because I heard some strange noises. When I saw it, I stepped out of my room for a moment, and when I came back, it was already...

From Pacifica to Santa Barbara, the coast of California is one of the most beautiful pieces of land and sea that I’ve ever seen. This year, the pivotal section of Highway 1 is finally accessible again...

Context: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old\_River\_Control\_Structure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_River_Control_Structure) At first, the Lower Old River would flow eastward to the Mississipp...

As you can see, it is approximately 3mm long (not that it matters). First time finding such a thing on my body. I have heard of pili multigemini before, but did not expect it would happen to me or tha...

Hexagonal growth on a black olive tree

Aside from certain undertones, this map also has tons of inaccuracies, because no one in their right mind is scared of Astoria, Bayonne, or half of the Queens zone that he marked as “avoid”

The item description for Salad SPECIFICALLY states "Made by mixing Lettuce and Tomato" THEN WOULD YOU CARE TO EXPLAIN THE HARD BOILED EGGS SITTING VERY OBVIOUSLY ON TOP?? Like what if my pal were all...

Video for cuteness and to sorts show what they do. They rarely, if ever, use the multiple hides or hammocks. They almost actively refuse to use hammocks actually lol. Every time i go in their room i s...

This is a screenshot of a video from my home town of Grand Manan, New Brunswick. The diver is in a weir, a heart-shaped, netted area used to catch herring. Those herring bring in some significantly b...

Update on the previous moonflower post. If this were a novel, readers would say that the moon symbolism was too heavy-handed. I wonder if this means anything.

📷: Joe Schmit https://m.youtube.com/@JoeSchmit-p1i

So, in this playthrough - and we're through the Elder and looking for BoneMass right now (and that damn Trader...) - we opted to do double resources but no map. Portals we're okay with but we're runni...

📸: [Joe Schmit](https://www.youtube.com/@JoeSchmit-p1i)

Paleontologist just discovered that T.rex wasn't just the largest predator, but the largest organism on the planet itself.

These stadium replicas (by Danbury Mint) are really neat and highlight some of the crazy constraints in surrounding neighborhoods that led to the quirky dimensions in iconic Polo Grounds and Fenway Pa...

I work as an appraiser in new construction communities in North Texas and in the beginning they use dozers to break up the bedrock. I carried tens of thousands of pounds out, sometimes at about 100 po...

It was really hard to break it to him. What is he gonna do without his soaps! 😩

•Groove Billed Ani• Spotted this guy at the Texas National Butterfly Center. You can’t convince me it’s not a Dino, look at those scales looking feathers! \-Nikon Z8 [For more, check out my insta ...

Please feel free to chime in and/or share photos of others that you fondly remembered and miss. I'm sure there are plenty out there regional or nationwide businesses that you've miss being around. **...

On my minecraft server (Java), me and my friend have made a big map floor area and filled it all in. A few days ago it was fine and filled in normally. When we got back on yesterday, we noticed that a...

Found in a Göbekli Tepe exhibition in Colosseum (Feb 2025) 🇮🇹

Video credit to Daniel Shaw

How did it do this btw? I thought it was so cool, it’s literally growing off the big guy

Landed my first internship a few weeks ago and got handed a ticket to fix a small bug in the existing codebase. Sounds simple. Except the codebase is like 80,000 lines across god knows how many files....

Always wanted a smoker and saw this idea on the internet for a cheap DIY version with an electric hot plate. I wired the hot plate element through the bottom of the terracotta pot. Then I put a steel ...

Overlook (*The Shining*): Implied in the Kubrick film adaptation. Explicit in the novel. Hill House (Shirley Jackson): Described as a living thing in both the book and adaptation. Ash Tree Lane (*Ho...

Spent last week hiking around the Tatras near Zakopane in Poland.

Well, 2 grievances technically! First was that I am prone to making mistakes while handwriting. The autopilot button on my brain likes to switch on at bad moments, leading to grammatical errors, wron...

David Croft will demonstrate how VSC works. Grid walk in my front yard. BYOB.

This has been on my bucket list ever since I was a child. Got a chance to see it this past summer. Built by the Pueblan civilization. I highly recommend a visit.

I took this photo last year while visiting tea mountains in Yunnan to learn more about Pu-erh at the source. Watching this tea farmer climb an old tea tree by hand to harvest fresh leaves was someth...

Die Schale habe ich zum Wasser auftanken hingestellt und aktuell denke ich schon über Überwinterungsmöglichkeiten nach. Wäre natürlich schön wenn sie bleiben.

We saw this while hiking around for work. This is off the main trail and within a National Park. We do environmental monitoring after fires (this place burned last summer) but none of us could figure ...

Dude passes out and slams into dock on jet ski.

Invisible furniture. It also seems to only affect some of it, like the counter on the right is partially obscured but the drawer on the left is completely fine

One of the my favorite museums in Chicago. I have been going here since I have been a child, for over 40 years.

Poor chick must've hatched today for it to be this small. (It was just clumped together batter)

We are American and I think they visited Germany sometime during that era. The restaurant Donisl appears to still be in Munich, which is how I figured where these were taken! The flags were a good hin...

I've seen this hidden under a bridge and I thought I should share it with you.

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands | Photo by: [Vincenzo Parlati](https://www.instagram.com/vincenzo_parlati/) [Full Story Here](https://awa.link/gvgb) *"These slightly squiggly dancing houses were built in ...

My first time drinking Turkish coffee here in Istanbul, and my Coffee decided to draw a little world map. I can definitely make out North America and part of Asia, especially India and China.

This little jerk nearly stripped an entire hot pepper plant overnight (peppers included). This is the first one I’ve seen at our new property. Silly me thought I’d get through the season without hornw...

There’s a few Cooper’s hawks and marsh hawks squawking from sun up to sun down in my neighborhood. This guy has been hanging out in my backyard for a few weeks. He finally got brave enough to take a d...

Giant restaurants with random music memorabilia on the walls like a fancy oversized Applebees, and yet, we all went and we all got the merch.

My husband doesn’t believe me that this is a brown widow’s nest. I grew up in the country and know the difference between a black and brown widow’s eggs. He swears it’s a moths nest but I’m posting th...

Seems every single place is doing it now. Even spoons

Will this flower? What can I do to help.

I thought she got out of the room. Security footage found her.

I have this hill in my “backyard”. My property line is MAYBE five feet further back and there is an undeveloped lot there that will likely be built in a year or two. By itself the hill erodes and fa...

Ok, so, I know blooms come from an infloresence with Echeveria and graptos etc (2nd pic, for good measure). But I'm not sure what happens when these Rubix cube, geometric type succulents bloom... The ...