40 amazing, and sometimes eerie wonders from the natural world (41 photos)
When you wake up in a cozy bed in a high-rise city building and take the bus to the office, it's easy to forget that we are still surrounded by amazing wildlife. So let's refresh your memory with this rich photo selection of delightful plants, atmospheric ghost lights, creepy spiders and many other wonders.
1. Skeleton flower (Grey's bifoil), whose petals become translucent when it rains
2. 350-year-old oak
3. Turtle shells look like fireworks
4. Owl with a pattern of hearts on its feathers
5. The eruption of Mount Etna (Sicily) looks like a phoenix in the sky
6. The wings look like stained glass
7. Golden curly mouse
8. Bald Eagle Nest with Ranger for Scale
9The Endangered Mexican Alligator Lizard
10. Algae on the head of a short-neck turtle in the Mary River makes it look like a punk with a mohawk.
11. Stunning Forest Glow Mushrooms: Among the hundred species of bioluminescent mushrooms. They usually grow in Asia
12. “Metal” pupa of a butterfly of the genus Mechanitis from Costa Rica
13. Judas tree: an extraordinary tree whose flowers grow directly from the trunk
14. Stunning black hellebore
15. A magnificent creation of nature
16. Stephen Dunn took this incredible photo with flash that illuminates the spider and shows off the rainbow effect on its wet web.
17. Rebirth of a tree
18. Phantom fire in the sky near Franklin, West Virginia
19. The extraordinary Glass Gem rainbow corn, which was developed by farmer Carl Barnes from Oklahoma in 1980 by crossing three varieties of corn.
20. Carrot Black Nebula
21. Eternal love
22. Stunning epiphytic catasetum orchids. Terribly cute!
23. Peacock eye caterpillar
24. These are skeletal sea pandas, also known as sea squirts. These are the marine invertebrates that will probably end up in a Tim Burton movie someday
25. Beautiful rainbow fluorite is just stripes of different colors
26. Smoky Prairie Flowers (Geum Triflorum). Looks like cotton candy!
27. This is what a baby flounder looks like
28. Beautiful black rose of a rare variety Black Baccarat
29. Satanic leaf-tailed gecko
30. Stunning black sunflower
31. The sailfish moves at a speed of more than 112 kilometers per hour, some experts consider the sailfish to be the fastest fish in the world's oceans
32. Very geometric web
33. Amazingly detailed photo of our Sun
34. Turtles
35. The stunning golden turtle beetle, also known as Charidotella sexpunctata. Belongs to the leaf beetle family, common in America
36. Wonderful blue poppy in the rain
37. Luxurious peacock
38. The largest flower in the world, Rafflesia Arnoldii. West Sumatra, Indonesia
39. Blue-eared kingfisher
40. Stunning black calla lily