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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 5h

This isn't AI or Photoshop, but some mind-bending land art by Tanya Preminger!

More images/info about this amazing installation👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 1d

Surprise, surprise: Rome is slightly north of Chicago! Here are major North American cities replaced by major cities across the Atlantic on the same latitude.

More info about the actual pairs and more pairs👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 1d

🪨 An incredible hanging stone in the Sayan mountains of Siberia.

More about the incredible hanging stone👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 1d

More amazing historical pictures👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 2d

More about Don Juan Pond and what it reveals about the possibility of liquid water on Mars👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 2d

🐌😮 The world's largest terrestrial snail is the giant African land snail - it can grow as large as an adult’s arm. Even after reaching adulthood, these snails will never stop growing.

More about the world's largest snail👇
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📷 Romana Yates

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 3d

🪨🏠🪨 Yes, it's real!

More amazing images/info about the house between the rocks👇
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📷 DIGITALAIN

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 4d

Archaeologists have uncovered a palace, a fortified building with large walls and towers, an industrial complex, and a huge multistorey warehouse.

More about the amazing discovery👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 4d

More about what and how bonobos speak👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 5d

Shark hunters have discovered a new population of the coelacanth, a 420-million-year-old four-legged fish fossil that predates dinosaurs and was once thought to be extinct.

More images/info about the four-legged fish fossil👇
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📷 Hans Fricke/Daniel Jolivet

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 6d

San Andreas fault superimposed over California landscape.

More about this image and the San Andreas fault👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 7d

What Cheer to Jackpot such an Okay map, Sugar Tit. It' a real Spread Eagle of oddities.

More about this map and where some of these names come from👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 7d

🐺❤️ These pups and their parents are the first gray wolves that have been spotted in Colorado since the 1940s, marking a historic moment for conservation efforts in the state!

Full story👇
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📷 NPS

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 7d

Where naval powers sailed between 1740-1855 based on 280,000 ship log entries.

More about this map/hi-res zoomable version👇
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Map by Peter Atwood

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 8d

The demonic-looking spiny orb-weaver spider.

More incredible-looking orb-weavers👇
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📷 Nick Hobgood

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 8d

Mongoose mums don't know which pup belongs to them... In banded mongoose societies, all females in a group give birth at the same time, creating a situation where they cannot distinguish their own pups from others.

Full story👇
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📷 Cloudtail the Snow Leopard

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 9d

A slice of England's iconic A303 road shows how it changed over thousands of years.

More about the layers of the A303👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 10d

Full story👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 10d

Amazing Helmcken Falls in British Columbia, Canada. The waterfall ejects so much spray into the air that, in winter, an enormous ice cone forms, which can grow to 200 feet (60 m) or taller.

What it looks like in winter👇
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📷 William Redmond

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 11d

Slope Point, New Zealand, is one of the windiest places on earth. Due to the strong Antarctic winds, the trees here stretch sideways rather than upwards.

More about incredible Slope Point👇
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📷 Seabird NZ

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 12d

Ever wondered what the most famous 'Bigfoot footage' looks like AI stabilized and enhanced? Check out this updated view of the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film - it reveals much about who the footage actually shows.

Watch the AI-stabilized footage👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 13d

Scientists recently radiocarbon dated the eye proteins of 28 Greenland sharks and one female was estimated to be 400 years old. This means she has been wandering the oceans since the 1620s!

More about the amazing discovery👇
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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 14d

It's a bit far from everything but definitely worth visiting! More about the Four Corners: earthlymission.com/four-corners...

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Earthly Mission @earthlymission.bsky.social · 15d

A man refused to give up his farm in the middle of Tokyo Narita Airport and continues to grow vegetables right between taxiways and a runway.

Read his amazing story👇 earthlymission.com/farm-middle-...

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