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  • Where You Can Stand On The World’s Largest Natural Mirror

    Every year, this South American salt flat turns into the world’s largest mirror. Known as Salar de Uyuni, this 4,086 square mile expanse stretches across much of southwestern Bolivia, and is in the record books as the planet’s biggest salt flat. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nature (@national.earth) The entire region is […] More

  • Live Fish Discovered Swimming Inside Jellyfish

    It looks like this fish has seen better days. It’s stuck inside a jellyfish. Australian photographer Tim Samuel discovered this amazing pair while free diving off of Byron Bay in New South Wales, Australia. He reported that the fish’s tail was sticking outside of the jellyfish, and that the seemingly confused duo was wobbling and swimming in […] More

  • Island Had to Build Bridge for Legion of 47 Million Crabs

    Christmas Island, a tiny Australian territory in the middle of the Indian Ocean, has a bit of a crab problem. An estimated 40 to 50 million Christmas Island crabs reside on this 52 square mile island. In comparison, the human population there is only about 2,000. Each year, these fire-engine red crustaceans make their way […] More

  • Strange “Headless Chicken Monster” Spotted in the Deep Sea

    Australian researchers recently filmed an unusual sea creature that has been described as a “headless chicken monster” in the Southern Ocean off the coast of Antarctica. Translucent and sporting fins that allowed it to swim upwards, the animal initially stumped the scientists, who described its appearance as “a chicken just before you put it in […] More

  • Mind-Controlling Parasitic Wasps Turn Caterpillars Into Bodyguards

    Like something out of a horror movie, parasitic Glyptapanteles wasp larvae survive by consuming their hosts from the inside out, then manipulating them into serving as bodyguards. The process is grisly: first, the female wasp begins by injecting approximately 80 eggs into an unlucky caterpillar victim. The eggs develop inside the creature, going through several molts and […] More

  • Psychedelic Wilderness: Animals That Trip out on Hallucinogens

    For humans, the allure of experimenting with intense, mind-altering substances is probably as old as our species. While certain drugs have had varying levels of legality and taboo status in some cultures, it’s hard to deny that our proclivity for taking our brains on a brief sojourn above the stratosphere is an old part of […] More

  • Two-Headed Fawn Discovered in a Forest Is First of Its Kind

    ­ A Minnesota mushroom hunter happened upon quite a rare find: a stillborn two-headed fawn. This is a first — before this, the only known case of conjoined fawns had been observed in utero (inside the mother’s womb). “It’s amazing and extremely rare,” University of Georgia scientist Gino D’Angelo said in a statement. “We can’t […] More

  • Sex-Crazed Snakes Reproduce in “Mating Balls” (Video)

    Red-sided garter snakes have a strange mating ritual. As they emerge from hibernation in spring, thousands of male snakes will desperately rush the females in an epic battle to reproduce. The snakes form “mating balls,” in which one female can find herself outnumbered by dozens of frantically-writhing males. With up to 10,000 snakes living in […] More

  • Chameleons Have Glow-in-the-Dark Bones

    Well, we know who we’re inviting to our next rave. A recent study found that chameleon bones glow under UV light, in the first known instance of bone-based fluorescence in a vertebrate. A team of German researchers tested the UV light on 31 species of Calumma chameleons, which are native to Madagascar. They observed a bright blue glow […] More

  • Watch Baby Spiders Eat Their Mothers Alive

    And you thought raising human newborns was tough! Across Europe, Africa and Asia, Stegodyphus spiders reproduce in large nests that are home to a number of spider families. Among them, one species native to South Africa, Stegodyphus dumicola, feed their young in a pretty gruesome way. As females take longer to mature than males, only about 40 percent of the females reproduce. […] More

  • VIDEO: Lynx Have Noisy Standoff and It Sounds Amazing

    “This is rare sighting of a stand off between two lynx that I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes! Once in a lifetime for sure.” Sarah Verney was traveling down a road near Greenville, Maine when she noticed two lynx having a bit of a standoff. When she rolled down the window, […] More

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