Posts tagged nature being nature
Um, cool.
…and weird.
Behold the ribbon eel! They are native to Indian and Pacific oceans. This one was filmed in the waters of Indonesia.
via Neatorama.
(via treehugger)
“You know how when you’re in a mall and it’s coming down in sheets, and you think, I’ll give it five minutes, and when it lets up I’ll run to my car? Well, imagine that it didn’t let up until the next day.”
My thought: I hope Auntie Annie’s is open 24-hours.
Special weather coverage in the September issue of National Geographic: Extreme Weather.
Rains that are almost biblical, heat waves that don’t end, tornadoes that strike in savage swarms—there’s been a change in the weather lately. What’s going on?
Image: Prairie storm in Montana
BIG PIC: ‘Fire Rainbow’ Over South Florida
So-called “fire rainbows” are neither on fire nor are they rainbows, but they sure are stunning.
They are technically known as iridescent clouds, a relatively rare phenomenon caused by clouds of water droplets of nearly uniform size.
Whatever they’re called, they’re gorgeous. Nature is stunning!
Orcas Snatch Calves from Humpback Mother
Whale-watching tourists off western Australia saw more than they expected - and perhaps more than many of them wanted - last week. As two boats of observers took in the action, a humpback whale mother desperately and vainly tried to protect a calf from four predatory orcas.
