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