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#birds #wildlife #nature #photography #naturephotography

A juvenile Red-Tailed hawk turns vertical trying to escape a harassing Red-winged Blackbird against a blue sky backdrop.
#photography #nature #birds #naturephotography #wildlife

🐟 In Feb 2025, a biologist slipped in a cave pool in Alabama, disturbed a pale eyeless fish, and accidentally discovered a brand new genus of animal. Meet Demogorgonichthys arcanus - the Demon Cavefish. Its an entirely new lineage found only in one cave on a military base. Named after the Stranger Things monster, it is blind, almost albino, and so rare that scientists have seen only about 20 at a time. The most amazing part? This cave has been studied monthly for 40 years. The fish was hiding in plain sight the whole time. Scientists have no idea if it lives in deeper aquifers or just this one cave. Its rhodopsin gene is partially missing, making it completely unresponsive to light. It coexists with a different cavefish species but shares no close evolutionary relationship with it - meaning two different fish independently evolved to live in total darkness in the exact same underwater cave. phys.org/news/2026-07-demon-ca… #Science #Nature #Discovery

New 'demon' cavefish lineage discovered in Alabama cave

For decades, scientists have crawled through Bobcat Cave on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, searching its dark pools and underground passages for rare life.
Sara Falligant (Phys.org)
#nature #science #discovery

📷 Bull elk at Kituwah (ᎩᏚᏩ), 8:40 PM.

#FediversalPictures #Kituwah #Nature

A large elk with antlers stands in a grassy field, facing right. Behind it are a corn field, tall green trees and dense foliage. Misty, blue-toned mountains rise in the background under a cloudy sky.
#nature #fediversalpictures #kituwah

Jumping minnow

#wildlife #nature #photography #naturephotography

A very thin small fry leaps from calm river water on an overcast day.
#photography #nature #naturephotography #wildlife

Stonehenge under the Milky Way — the highlight of my holiday in southern England, captured on the very first night. Almost perfect conditions, right beside the ancient stones.

▼ IRIX 15mm | Canon EOS R

astrocamp.eu/en/stonehenge-and…

#astrophotography #astronomy #nature #deepsky

Stonehenge under the Milky Way

Stonehenge and Milky Way, Jul'26

The highlight of my holiday in southern England came on the very first night: Stonehenge with a touch of the Milky Way!
Thomas Hanrath (Astrocamp – Astrophotography & Deep-Sky Catalog)
#nature #astronomy #astrophotography #DeepSky

📷 Sunset behind the Blue Ridge Mountains, June 2025.

#FediversalPictures #Nature

A hazy sunset behind distant hills, with a red-orange glow near the horizon and soft blue and pink tones in the sky above darkened silhouettes of trees and mountains.
#nature #fediversalpictures

Okay, here's a cracker for #ThrowbackThursday - this photo was taken in 1993 by an old buddy Pete MacDonald from Findochty on the Moray Coast. I was helping him repair his old boat's even older diesel engine (hence the manky overalls) when we got word that a young dolphin had been trapped and drowned in a poaching net. We recovered the young dolphin who, only 5 years old was around 9 feet in length. Me beside the dolphin for scale (I'm 6 feet). #Bycatch #Dolphin #Nature
A man in dirty orange overalls lying on a harbour slipway with a dead juvenile dolphin beside him for a sense of scale. The dolphin is over 9 feet in length although not fully grown, as an adult these northerly Bottlenose dolphin can reach 13 feet in length and weigh a third of a ton. The dolphin had tragically drowned after being trapped in a salmon poaching net on the Moray Firth coast.
#nature #throwbackthursday #dolphin #bycatch

Beaut beetle which I noticed flying and which then landed in the grass at my feet. Managed to get some reasonable shots as it moved quite slowly and let me get quite close before flying off. Seen at Glen Erin near Bowen, Qld. Canon R10 and RF100-400 lens. Hand held, natural light. ID-ed on iNaturalist as Rhipicera mystacina.

#nature #photography #australia #insects #macro #wildlife #beetles

Colour photo of beetle Rhipicera mystacina, with branched antennae.
Colour photo of beetle Rhipicera mystacina, with branched antennae.
#photography #nature #australia #wildlife #macro #insects #beetles

📷 Bull elk, heading for the river after munching on corn. The Tuckasegee is through the woods, about 30 yards from the road. The elk have made several paths, through the woods to the river.

#FediversalPictures #Nature

Four elk with large antlers walk away on a gravel path bordered by green grass and dense trees. Three elk are grouped together on the left, one half-way in the woods, while one elk walks on the road, toward the group
#nature #fediversalpictures

Les habitants de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, près de Perpignan, sont soumis à des restrictions d'eau mais un golf sur la commune est en cours de construction. La maire (LR) qui porte le projet ne souhaite pas parler, elle dit simplement espérer une "dynamique économique et touristique" avec ce golf. https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/evenements-meteorologiques-extremes/secheresse/reportage-des-gens-ont-ete-denonces-parce-qu-ils-arrosaient-dans-les-pyrenees-orientales-des-arretes-secheresse-suscitent-suspicion-et-incomprehension_8117336.html#xtor=CS2-765-[autres]-

#Politique #Climat #Eau #Golf #Nature #Secheresse #Canicule #Perpignan


REPORTAGE. "Des gens ont été dénoncés parce qu'ils arrosaient" : dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, des arrêtés sécheresse suscitent suspicion et incompréhension

Dans plusieurs communes du département, des restrictions d'eau ont lieu à cause de la sécheresse. Certains habitants s'interrogent notamment sur la construction d'un golf.
franceinfo (Franceinfo)
#nature #golf #climat #politique #canicule #secheresse #eau #perpignan

🦠 A tapeworm that infects worker ants (Temnothorax nylanderi) reprograms them at the molecular level — turning their metabolism queen-like and extending their lifespan from 2 years to 20. Infected workers receive MORE social care than the actual queen. The parasite hijacks the ant's own longevity genes, not by mimicking them, but by tapping into existing biological programs. #science #biology #parasitology #ants #nature

phys.org/news/2026-07-tapeworm…


Tapeworm hijacks worker ants, giving them queen-like metabolism and longer lives

A tapeworm fundamentally changes the lives of ants: Workers of the species Temnothorax nylanderi infected with the tapeworm Anomotaenia brevis live several times longer than their uninfected nestmates.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Phys.org)
#nature #science #Biology #ants #parasitology

It took multiple days of rain for this waterfall to even flow this much and it was still raining and foggy when I visited.

#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #landscape #nature #photography #LPW #waterfall

Waterfall in a forest on a foggy day
#photography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #waterfall #LPW

Geological Deep Time – new blog series available in English now!

It's about our relationship with Earth's deep time – illustrated with my own photographs from the Black Forest and the Vosges. The first 3 parts are now online.

Start here : silberspur.de/blogs/read/116

#DeepTime #BlackForest #Vosges #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #EarthSciences #Science #Fotografie #Schwarzwald #Vogesen #Palynology #Science #ScienceCommunication #Geology #NaturePhotography #ScienceForEveryone #Time

Night sky over a calm lake: Star trails are reflected symmetrically in the water. Because the camera was pointed directly north and the horizon with the tree line on the opposite shore was placed in the center, the star trails form two concavely curved circular arcs that are mirrored in the lake.

Silberspur: Blog

Photographs and blog posts by Peter Gutsche
www.silberspur.de
#photography #nature #science #fotografie #naturephotography #landscapephotography #geology #schwarzwald #blackforest #time #deeptime #vosges #EarthSciences #Vogesen #palynology #sciencecommunication #scienceforeveryone

The very first image from the surface of Mars, transmitted to Earth from NASA's Viking 1 lander, 50 years ago today.

nasa.gov/image-article/our-fir… #science #nature #history #tech

On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that the Viking 1 lander had successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, this photo gave us our first view from the surface of another planet. Credit: NASA/JPL

Our First View of the Surface of Mars - NASA

“Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned
NASA
#History #nature #science #tech

Hibiscus flower - My Sigma Art 50mm 1.4 lens works well with extension tube. #nature #NaturePhotography #fineartphotography #sverige #flower #flowerphotography #bokeh #naturelovers
#nature #naturephotography #Sverige #bokeh #flower #naturelovers #flowerphotography #fineartphotography

🕷 A newly discovered spider in Australia builds spring-loaded traps that launch ants faster than a bullet.

The ballista spider in Cape York rainforests weaves silk snares and waits. When a green tree ant bites the trigger, the trap launches them at 1,367 m/s - over 1.5x the speed of a rifle bullet.

Gram for gram, these tiny traps store more power than any known biological catapult. The spider may even coat them with pheromones that only attract its prey.

Published in Current Biology (July 2026): nationalgeographic.com/animals…

#science #nature #spiders


Watch this new spider species launch ants right into its web

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. 
Annie Roth (National Geographic)
#nature #science #spiders

Watching the clouds drift past at the reservoir at sunset. New Britain Reservoir, Southington, Connecticut. September 11, 2019, 7:16 PM.

#hiking #photography #outdoors #landscapephotography #nature #Connecticut #summer #forest #sunset #sunsetphotography #lake #summertime

We are standing next to a big rock on the shore of a large lake looking across the lake. The opposite shore is a wide strip of grassy looking plants and then forest. The evening sky is a very pale blue, with a line of large and small clouds drifting past above the horizon.
#photography #nature #Summer #forest #hiking #landscapephotography #lake #outdoors #sunset #connecticut #sunsetphotography #summertime

🦌 Arctic reindeer are the only mammals whose eyes change color seasonally - gold in summer, deep blue in winter. They physically restructure a nanoscale photonic mirror inside their eyes to match Arctic twilight wavelengths, boosting night vision during months of polar darkness. #science #nature royalsocietypublishing.org/doi…
#nature #science

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌳🪨 A large-scale field #experiment in #Wales shows that adding crushed volcanic #basalt rock dust to #soil accelerates native woodland growth.

The #nature-based method boosted #carbon capture by up to 27% in the first four years, providing an urgent tool for global #climate restoration efforts.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/how-does-magic…

#biology #calcium #chemistry #climatechange #conservation #ecology #forest #iron #magnesium #minerals #plants #research #rocks #science #silica #solutions #trees #uk #womeninstem #tksst #video

A split-screen graphic featuring a circular center inset of a person's hands in black gloves holding a heap of gray crushed rock dust against a bright red background. The left side of the graphic displays an aerial, top-down view of a dense green forest canopy. The right side shows a scenic countryside view of a tall, stone arch viaduct spanning across fields next to a white house.

How does ‘magic’ basalt dust help plants grow faster and lock up more carbon? | The Kid Should See This

In Llandovery, Wales, a large-scale nature research project is proving that there's a way to help trees grow faster and stronger, and store more carbon.
Rion Nakaya (The Kid Should See This)
#nature #science #climate #ClimateChange #uk #forest #plants #video #carbon #research #Biology #trees #chemistry #Wales #ecology #womeninstem #conservation #rocks #silica #minerals #experiment #basalt #soil #calcium #iron #magnesium #solutions #tksst

'Alte oder besondere Bäume' #FotoVorschlag
im alten Lorbeerbaumwald #fanal auf #Madeira

#photography #nature

Auf diesem Foto sind zwei alte, knorrige Bäume zu sehen, die in dichten Nebel gehüllt sind. Die Bäume stehen auf einer sanft abfallenden, grünen Wiese. Ihre Äste sind weit ausgebreitet und wirken fast wie Arme, die sich in den nebligen Himmel strecken. Die Atmosphäre ist ruhig und geheimnisvoll, fast unwirklich. Der Nebel verschleiert die Umgebung und lässt die Bäume wie einsame Gestalten in einer anderen Welt erscheinen.
#photography #nature #FotoVorschlag #Fanal #madeira

Photo of a smiling boy holding two black and white-coloured butterflies A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognise him. He spent two years designing an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage.

Jouw privacykeuzes

www.yahoo.com
#nature #science #memory #butterflies


Oak Apple Galls | NC State Extension Publications

This fact sheet describes the biology of the oak apple gall wasp.
content.ces.ncsu.edu
#nature #ecology #entomology

New Zealand photographer takes stunning photos of tiny mushrooms. 🍄

More here: instagram.com/cyanesense/

#mushrooms #photography #nature

A two tiny glass like looking mushrooms
Microscopic mushrooms near a regular sized finger.
Three small, mushroom-like structures with yellow and black textures are depicted against a blurred background. They have thin, elongated stems and appear to be growing from a moist surface.
Microscopic mushrooms near a regular sized finger.
#photography #nature #Mushrooms

Daisy

#photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature #gardens

White daisies are seen grouped together hiding in the light and shadows of a garden.
#photography #nature #Flowers #gardens #bloomscrolling

Wespenspinne
#nature
Wespenspinne in ihrem Netz zwischen Schilfhalmen
#nature

Pink swirl sunset. Scoville Reservoir, Wolcott, Connecticut. June 15, 2020, 8:45 PM.

#hiking #photography #outdoors #landscapephotography #nature #Connecticut #summer #forest #sunset #sunsetphotography #lake #summertime

We are standing on the shore of a large lake. Below us are tufts of water grasses growing just offshore, a partially submerged rock and a partially submerged tree limb. To our left is a large leafy shrub. It is a calm evening, the lake surface is just slightly rippled. Across the lake is a low wooded ridge topped by a water tower. Beyond that a glimpse of a slightly higher ridge. Most of the sky is a deep blue. The recently set sun tints the horizon gold. Upper level winds have created a gentle swirl effect in some passing clouds. From below the horizon the sun's rays are tinting the bottoms of the clouds bright pink and deep purple.
#photography #nature #Summer #forest #hiking #landscapephotography #lake #outdoors #sunset #connecticut #sunsetphotography #summertime

≪ Schönheit am Wegesrand ≫


_(Bildbeschreibung: Nahaufnahme einer leuchtend orangefarbenen Taglilie nach einem Regenschauer mit vielen Wassertropfen auf den Blütenblättern.)_

#photography #fotografie #foto #photo #postprocessed #myphoto #mywork #ownwork #nature #natur #umwelt

#photo #mywork #photography #myphoto #nature #foto #fotografie #Natur #Umwelt #postprocessed #ownwork

📷 #ThrowbackThursday

One of three hens their tender calls "The Golden Girls" at "Anything Goes" Experimental Farm, SC, 2024.

#FediversalPictures #Nature

A close-up of a brown chicken with a bright red comb and wattles, being gently held by a person wearing a dark tank top. The chicken is looking slightly left, with its beak closed,.
#nature #throwbackthursday #fediversalpictures

pika perched on rock carrying a bunch of plants with white flowers in their mouth
#photography #nature #fotografie #naturephotography #wildlife #photographie #wildlifephotography

He still intended to eat him, but for the moment the bear decided he would comfort the lost boy in the forest. #grickledoodle #bear #lost #nature #kindness #cartoon #art #drawing #horror #funny #humor
A child leans against a large bear on a rock, both looking sad but comforted as they sit together in a grassy meadow with trees in the background.
#art #funny #humor #nature #drawing #horror #cartoon #grickledoodle #bear #lost #kindness

Eris militaris, Lil’ Bronze #jumpingspider or as I call them MicroFuzz Muffins

Think this is a male, it was about 3mm in length. The bottom of the frame looks weird because it’s a leaf that is closer to the lens.

#photography #fotografie #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #spiders #spooder #cute #closeup #fujifilm

Closeup of a small jumping spider with grey and brown coloration and bronze eye bands. It’s sitting on a twig and facing the camera with its large cute puppy dog eyes.
Same as first picture but it is turned away from the camera a little more so it’s abdomen is more clear. It has black stripes and specks on top of the grey and brown coloration.
#photography #nature #fotografie #naturephotography #macro #closeup #MacroPhotography #fujifilm #cute #spiders #JumpingSpider #spooder

I am happy to announce our latest paper! "Surprising cryptic cavefish diversity in a long-studied karst cave ecosystem of northern Alabama"

I absolutely love our name for it too, an entire new genus, not just species: Demogorgonichthys arcanus

:OpenAccess: rdcu.be/fsgWT

Why did it take so long to find, in a highly monitored cave? Well just take a look at the mud with water channels and low ceilings, and we cannot typically even get into the water because of other protected and highly endangered species. So visual surveying is difficult, and limited. The paper is an excellent read even for not-biologists, and the images are *amazing*. So proud of our lab!

#cave #caves #biology #fish #nature #speleology #science #animals

Panoramic style image of a very muddy passage with low ceilings. We can see two figures hunched in a low crawl peering into the channels of water cut through the mud. It is very slippery, difficult not to fall in, yet imperative to not! Lest the water get silted up instantly, or worse, one of the endangered critters in it getting hurt. This cave is "not a fun cave". Not even type 2 fun. Although...it was the day we found this fish!
#animals #nature #science #fish #Biology #cave #caves #speleology

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