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A northern gannet dives into the water by the Isle of Noss, Shetland Islands, to catch its prey.
With a 180 centimetre wingspan, they are one of the largest seabirds in British waters
📷Jade Hoksbergen
#marinelife #nature #photography #blueplanet
With a 180 centimetre wingspan, they are one of the largest seabirds in British waters
📷Jade Hoksbergen
#marinelife #nature #photography #blueplanet
February 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A northern gannet dives into the water by the Isle of Noss, Shetland Islands, to catch its prey.
With a 180 centimetre wingspan, they are one of the largest seabirds in British waters
📷Jade Hoksbergen
#marinelife #nature #photography #blueplanet
With a 180 centimetre wingspan, they are one of the largest seabirds in British waters
📷Jade Hoksbergen
#marinelife #nature #photography #blueplanet
Hidden high in the Himalayas, camouflaged between the ice and rocky terrain, lives the snow leopard. As the top predator in this ecosystem, snow leopards keep countless other animal and plant populations in balance as they prey on grazers.
📍 Ladakh, India
📷 Sascha Fonseca
#wildlife #photography
📍 Ladakh, India
📷 Sascha Fonseca
#wildlife #photography
February 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hidden high in the Himalayas, camouflaged between the ice and rocky terrain, lives the snow leopard. As the top predator in this ecosystem, snow leopards keep countless other animal and plant populations in balance as they prey on grazers.
📍 Ladakh, India
📷 Sascha Fonseca
#wildlife #photography
📍 Ladakh, India
📷 Sascha Fonseca
#wildlife #photography
A Black bear cub takes an
afternoon nap up on a tree, next to a very surprised eagle in Anan, Alaska.
📷Jeroen Hoekendijk
#wildlife #photography #palebluedot
afternoon nap up on a tree, next to a very surprised eagle in Anan, Alaska.
📷Jeroen Hoekendijk
#wildlife #photography #palebluedot
January 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A Black bear cub takes an
afternoon nap up on a tree, next to a very surprised eagle in Anan, Alaska.
📷Jeroen Hoekendijk
#wildlife #photography #palebluedot
afternoon nap up on a tree, next to a very surprised eagle in Anan, Alaska.
📷Jeroen Hoekendijk
#wildlife #photography #palebluedot
During the courtship, Cuban painted snails spear the partner with a calcareous “love” dart.
Collected to near-extinction by poachers seeking to sell them as jewelry, these large, vibrantly-colored hermaphroditic land snails were listed as endangered in 2012.
📷Mark Brandon
#wildlife #photography
January 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
During the courtship, Cuban painted snails spear the partner with a calcareous “love” dart.
Collected to near-extinction by poachers seeking to sell them as jewelry, these large, vibrantly-colored hermaphroditic land snails were listed as endangered in 2012.
📷Mark Brandon
#wildlife #photography
A cheetah bursts into a small group of zebras in southern Kenya, clinging onto a foal. The mother zebra launches a last attempt to push her foal away from the attacking big cat.
📷Alex Brackx
#wildlifephotography #2024 #palebluedot
📷Alex Brackx
#wildlifephotography #2024 #palebluedot
December 30, 2024 at 5:54 PM
A cheetah bursts into a small group of zebras in southern Kenya, clinging onto a foal. The mother zebra launches a last attempt to push her foal away from the attacking big cat.
📷Alex Brackx
#wildlifephotography #2024 #palebluedot
📷Alex Brackx
#wildlifephotography #2024 #palebluedot
A mudskipper and a crab have a territorial dispute in Roebuck Bay, Australia.
Did you know? Mudskippers are amphibious fish that can—out of water—breathe through their skin and gills, provided they remain wet.
📷Ofer Levy
#wildlife #photography #blueplanet
Did you know? Mudskippers are amphibious fish that can—out of water—breathe through their skin and gills, provided they remain wet.
📷Ofer Levy
#wildlife #photography #blueplanet
December 8, 2024 at 4:29 PM
A mudskipper and a crab have a territorial dispute in Roebuck Bay, Australia.
Did you know? Mudskippers are amphibious fish that can—out of water—breathe through their skin and gills, provided they remain wet.
📷Ofer Levy
#wildlife #photography #blueplanet
Did you know? Mudskippers are amphibious fish that can—out of water—breathe through their skin and gills, provided they remain wet.
📷Ofer Levy
#wildlife #photography #blueplanet
A grizzly bear stands on its hind legs and looks at the camera while fishing for salmon in Canada’s Chilko River.
📷John Marriott
#wildlife #photography #blueplanet #palebluedot
📷John Marriott
#wildlife #photography #blueplanet #palebluedot
December 8, 2024 at 4:25 PM
A grizzly bear stands on its hind legs and looks at the camera while fishing for salmon in Canada’s Chilko River.
📷John Marriott
#wildlife #photography #blueplanet #palebluedot
📷John Marriott
#wildlife #photography #blueplanet #palebluedot
Appearing on the fossil record half a billion years ago, the nautilus uses chemical cues to detect their main food sources like fish and crustaceans, and have a connective tube called a siphuncle that controls their buoyancy by directing water through internal gas chambers.
📷Enric Sala
#wildlife
📷Enric Sala
#wildlife
December 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Appearing on the fossil record half a billion years ago, the nautilus uses chemical cues to detect their main food sources like fish and crustaceans, and have a connective tube called a siphuncle that controls their buoyancy by directing water through internal gas chambers.
📷Enric Sala
#wildlife
📷Enric Sala
#wildlife
An elephant lies dead alongside a heavily trafficked road in Zambia, after being struck by a car on the M10 highway outside of Sioma Ngwezi National Park. Elephants must cross the M10 to reach the Zambezi River, their only water source during hot, dry months.
📷Jasper Doest
#wildlife #photography
📷Jasper Doest
#wildlife #photography
December 4, 2024 at 4:04 PM
An elephant lies dead alongside a heavily trafficked road in Zambia, after being struck by a car on the M10 highway outside of Sioma Ngwezi National Park. Elephants must cross the M10 to reach the Zambezi River, their only water source during hot, dry months.
📷Jasper Doest
#wildlife #photography
📷Jasper Doest
#wildlife #photography
Cranberries, a #Thanksgiving staple, were a Native American superfood, used for everything from cooking to dyes for textiles to medicines.
The berry was called sassamenesh (by the Algonquin) and ibimi (by the Wampanoag and Lenni-Lenape), translated as “bitter" or "sour berries."
📷 Melanie Freeman
The berry was called sassamenesh (by the Algonquin) and ibimi (by the Wampanoag and Lenni-Lenape), translated as “bitter" or "sour berries."
📷 Melanie Freeman
November 27, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Cranberries, a #Thanksgiving staple, were a Native American superfood, used for everything from cooking to dyes for textiles to medicines.
The berry was called sassamenesh (by the Algonquin) and ibimi (by the Wampanoag and Lenni-Lenape), translated as “bitter" or "sour berries."
📷 Melanie Freeman
The berry was called sassamenesh (by the Algonquin) and ibimi (by the Wampanoag and Lenni-Lenape), translated as “bitter" or "sour berries."
📷 Melanie Freeman
Now found only in India and Nepal, gharials are rebounding from near extinction. These 15-foot crocodile relatives, once 10,000 strong, dwindled to fewer than 250 adults by 2006 due to habitat loss and fishing deaths. Thanks to conservation, their population has grown to about 650 today.
#wildlife
#wildlife
November 24, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Now found only in India and Nepal, gharials are rebounding from near extinction. These 15-foot crocodile relatives, once 10,000 strong, dwindled to fewer than 250 adults by 2006 due to habitat loss and fishing deaths. Thanks to conservation, their population has grown to about 650 today.
#wildlife
#wildlife
A kākāpō on New Zealand’s Anchor Island (Pukenui), at one of the three sanctuaries working to rebuild populations of the critically endangered species. It is estimated that there are around 200 kākāpō left in the world.
📷Jake Osbourne
#wildlife #photography #endangered
📷Jake Osbourne
#wildlife #photography #endangered
November 22, 2024 at 5:07 PM
A kākāpō on New Zealand’s Anchor Island (Pukenui), at one of the three sanctuaries working to rebuild populations of the critically endangered species. It is estimated that there are around 200 kākāpō left in the world.
📷Jake Osbourne
#wildlife #photography #endangered
📷Jake Osbourne
#wildlife #photography #endangered
A young Iberian lynx, the world’s most endangered feline species, at a waterhole in Castilla La Mancha, Spain.
Due to habitat loss, decreasing food sources, car collisons and illegal hunting, the estimated population population is less than 1700.
📷Antonio Liebana Navarro
#wildlife #photography
Due to habitat loss, decreasing food sources, car collisons and illegal hunting, the estimated population population is less than 1700.
📷Antonio Liebana Navarro
#wildlife #photography
November 21, 2024 at 8:05 PM
A young Iberian lynx, the world’s most endangered feline species, at a waterhole in Castilla La Mancha, Spain.
Due to habitat loss, decreasing food sources, car collisons and illegal hunting, the estimated population population is less than 1700.
📷Antonio Liebana Navarro
#wildlife #photography
Due to habitat loss, decreasing food sources, car collisons and illegal hunting, the estimated population population is less than 1700.
📷Antonio Liebana Navarro
#wildlife #photography
Researchers say they discovered the world’s largest coral colony during an October expedition in the Solomon Islands: a 112x105 ft mega coral— longer than a blue whale, Earth’s largest animal. Roughly 300 yrs old, it is so enormous it can be seen from space.
📷 Manu San Felix
#oceans #photography
📷 Manu San Felix
#oceans #photography
November 21, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Researchers say they discovered the world’s largest coral colony during an October expedition in the Solomon Islands: a 112x105 ft mega coral— longer than a blue whale, Earth’s largest animal. Roughly 300 yrs old, it is so enormous it can be seen from space.
📷 Manu San Felix
#oceans #photography
📷 Manu San Felix
#oceans #photography
In Bulgaria’s western Balkan Mountains, a flower crab spider matches a spring pheasant’s-eye bloom in a color-change process that takes a few days. The arachnid is an ambush predator: It doesn’t build webs but lies in wait to pounce on its prey
📷Georgi Georgiev
#wildlife #insects #photography
📷Georgi Georgiev
#wildlife #insects #photography
November 19, 2024 at 11:20 PM
In Bulgaria’s western Balkan Mountains, a flower crab spider matches a spring pheasant’s-eye bloom in a color-change process that takes a few days. The arachnid is an ambush predator: It doesn’t build webs but lies in wait to pounce on its prey
📷Georgi Georgiev
#wildlife #insects #photography
📷Georgi Georgiev
#wildlife #insects #photography
An Arctic poppy, the northernmost species of flower, thrives on the northern coast of Greenland's mainland. A lone Arctic poppy like this was found to be the world's northernmost flower, located about 20 inches south of the world's northernmost plant.
📷Jeff Kerby
#nature #photography
📷Jeff Kerby
#nature #photography
November 19, 2024 at 11:18 PM
An Arctic poppy, the northernmost species of flower, thrives on the northern coast of Greenland's mainland. A lone Arctic poppy like this was found to be the world's northernmost flower, located about 20 inches south of the world's northernmost plant.
📷Jeff Kerby
#nature #photography
📷Jeff Kerby
#nature #photography
Mycena lucentipes (“glowing stem”) are one of six new species of bioluminescent mushrooms found in Brazil’s endangered Atlantic Forest. The mushrooms glow constantly, emitting a yellow-green light at a wavelength of 520-530 nanometers.
📷Henrique Domingos
#nature #photography
📷Henrique Domingos
#nature #photography
November 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Mycena lucentipes (“glowing stem”) are one of six new species of bioluminescent mushrooms found in Brazil’s endangered Atlantic Forest. The mushrooms glow constantly, emitting a yellow-green light at a wavelength of 520-530 nanometers.
📷Henrique Domingos
#nature #photography
📷Henrique Domingos
#nature #photography
A pollen-covered bat emerges from a flower of the blue mahoe tree. Found nowhere else in the world other than on the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Hispaniola, the Cuban flower bat (Phyllonycteris poeyi) are essential pollinators to many native plants on the islands.
📷Merlin Tuttle
#wildlife #photo
📷Merlin Tuttle
#wildlife #photo
November 17, 2024 at 3:57 PM
A bizarre photo from Australia shows a seal surfing on the back of a humpback whale. Scientists aren’t sure what’s behind the unusual behavior, but say it’s entirely possible the seal just wanted to have some fun.
📷Robyn Malcolm
#wildlife #photography
📷Robyn Malcolm
#wildlife #photography
November 17, 2024 at 3:48 PM
A bizarre photo from Australia shows a seal surfing on the back of a humpback whale. Scientists aren’t sure what’s behind the unusual behavior, but say it’s entirely possible the seal just wanted to have some fun.
📷Robyn Malcolm
#wildlife #photography
📷Robyn Malcolm
#wildlife #photography
A mature bald eagle drags the tail of a fish across the surface of the water after picking it up out of the Susquehanna river.
📷 Eric Esterle
#wildlife #photography
📷 Eric Esterle
#wildlife #photography
November 17, 2024 at 3:35 PM
A mature bald eagle drags the tail of a fish across the surface of the water after picking it up out of the Susquehanna river.
📷 Eric Esterle
#wildlife #photography
📷 Eric Esterle
#wildlife #photography
A Balkan pond turtle appears to smile as a dragonfly pauses on the reptile’s nose.
Rather than consuming the insect, the turtle tipped its head upward and opened its mouth in what looked to the photographer to be a pleasured grin.
📷Tzahi Finkelstein
#wildlife #photography
Rather than consuming the insect, the turtle tipped its head upward and opened its mouth in what looked to the photographer to be a pleasured grin.
📷Tzahi Finkelstein
#wildlife #photography
November 16, 2024 at 7:54 PM
A Balkan pond turtle appears to smile as a dragonfly pauses on the reptile’s nose.
Rather than consuming the insect, the turtle tipped its head upward and opened its mouth in what looked to the photographer to be a pleasured grin.
📷Tzahi Finkelstein
#wildlife #photography
Rather than consuming the insect, the turtle tipped its head upward and opened its mouth in what looked to the photographer to be a pleasured grin.
📷Tzahi Finkelstein
#wildlife #photography
Fewer than five high-resolution images of the African golden cat have ever been taken in the wild. The African golden cat is Africa’s only forest-dwelling wild cat, and one of the world’s least-known members of the cat family.
📷 Sebastian Kennerknecht
#wildlife #photography
📷 Sebastian Kennerknecht
#wildlife #photography
November 16, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Fewer than five high-resolution images of the African golden cat have ever been taken in the wild. The African golden cat is Africa’s only forest-dwelling wild cat, and one of the world’s least-known members of the cat family.
📷 Sebastian Kennerknecht
#wildlife #photography
📷 Sebastian Kennerknecht
#wildlife #photography
A group of baby plainfin midshipman fish still attached to their yolk sacs in British Columbia, Canada. For these fish, it’s the males that provide parental care.
📷Shane Gross
#wildlife #photography #oceans #blueplanet
📷Shane Gross
#wildlife #photography #oceans #blueplanet
November 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
A group of baby plainfin midshipman fish still attached to their yolk sacs in British Columbia, Canada. For these fish, it’s the males that provide parental care.
📷Shane Gross
#wildlife #photography #oceans #blueplanet
📷Shane Gross
#wildlife #photography #oceans #blueplanet
Did you know? Wild kangaroos tend to favor their left hands during common tasks like grooming and feeding. Researchers say this is the first demonstration of population-level "handedness" in a species other than humans, who are mostly right-handed.
📷Jami Tarris
#wildlifephotography #funfacts
📷Jami Tarris
#wildlifephotography #funfacts
November 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Did you know? Wild kangaroos tend to favor their left hands during common tasks like grooming and feeding. Researchers say this is the first demonstration of population-level "handedness" in a species other than humans, who are mostly right-handed.
📷Jami Tarris
#wildlifephotography #funfacts
📷Jami Tarris
#wildlifephotography #funfacts
“Fire rainbow”- more properly called a circumhorizontal arc, appears in the sky over the Sanding Temple in south Tibet. The optical phenomenon is formed by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds, creating vivid rainbow-like colours.
📷 Gesang Jimei
#photography
📷 Gesang Jimei
#photography
November 15, 2024 at 9:44 PM
“Fire rainbow”- more properly called a circumhorizontal arc, appears in the sky over the Sanding Temple in south Tibet. The optical phenomenon is formed by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds, creating vivid rainbow-like colours.
📷 Gesang Jimei
#photography
📷 Gesang Jimei
#photography