Category: Nature

Wildfires in Europe

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King Cobra thrirsty during extreme drought in India

Click here for the youtube video. Angry king cobra is given water from a bottle after drought forced it to enter Indian village in search of a drink  The King Cobra normally avoids confrontations with humans but desperate times call for desperate measures. This deadly snake was so thirsty during a drought that it broke …

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The 2017 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest

Underwater Photographer of the Year, 2017 – Dancing Octopus. In the lagoon of Mayotte, during spring low tides, there is very little water on the flats. Only 30 cm in fact. That’s when I took this picture. I had to get as close as possible to the dome to create this effect. The 14 mm is …

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A Visit to the European Southern Observatory

High in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has built several collections of telescopes and observatories on remote, arid mountaintops. The locations are ideal for ground-based astronomy — far from city lights, high above sea level, with more than 350 cloudless days a year. The ESO is an intergovernmental research organization with …

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BBC Earth 2 trailer.

10 years ago Planet Earth changed our view of the world. Now we take you closer than ever before. This is life in all its wonder. This is Planet Earth II. A decade ago, the landmark television series Planet Earth redefined natural history filmmaking, giving us the ultimate portrait of life on Earth. Planet Earth …

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International Migratory Bird Day

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Here fishy fishy…

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Beautiful creature at 3700 meters under water.

This stunningly beautiful jellyfish was seen during Dive 4 of the 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas expedition on April 24, 2016, while exploring Enigma Seamount at a depth of ~3,700 meters. Click here for the video.

Squirrels A Mission Impossible !

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Wintry Scenes After a Freezing Week

A record-setting blizzard blanketed much of the American East Coast in snow over the weekend, and parts of China have been experiencing weeks of bone-chilling temperatures, freezing rivers and waterfalls. The weather has caused serious problems, but it also brought many out to play, and others to photograph the snowball fights, sleds, and the beauty …

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