174 Times People Spotted Nightmarish Things In Nature And Just Had To Share It Online (New Pics)

May 03, 2022

Mother Nature continues to amaze us every day, even when we fail to treat her with the love and respect she deserves. There are too many dreamy landscapes and mind-boggling animals that exist right outside our urban surroundings, just waiting to be appreciated. But be careful though — if you get too close, things can go from mesmerizing to straight-up terrifying in mere seconds.

You see, not all wildlife surprises are pleasant. They sometimes crawl into the comfort of our homes to remind us that nature is not to be messed with. In fact, there are plenty of horrified poor souls that have experienced these unsettling terrors firsthand. Before running to the hills, they managed to snap a photo and share their horror stories with everyone online.

We at Bored Panda scoured the internet and found plenty of cases where nature provided our world with alien-like creatures to scare the heck out of everyone who crosses them. Continue scrolling and let us know which ones made you say 'nope' the loudest! And if by some chance you think you can handle even more creepy and spooky examples, check out our earlier compilations of this feature here, here, and here.

#1 Was Playing Video Games When I Heard Sounds To My Left. Looked Over And Saw This

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#2 This Is A Wasp Nest That Has Grown Around The Floodlights On A Garage

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#3 Went Into My Attic Looking For A Water Leak Coming Into My Living Room And It Appears That I'm Also In Quarantine With This Whatever Monstrosity Left This Behind

It's soft to the touch so I'm assuming it's still around.

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#4 Man Finds Huge Spider Hiding Inside Ear Muffs After Feeling Tickle In His Ear

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#5 Coconut Crabs Are Attracted To The Smell Of Food

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#6 Well There Is A Water Snake Living In My Toilet Somehow

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#7 Infested Spider Tent

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#8 Found This In My Apartment While Living In Japan. They Are Fast

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#9 Remember To Check Your VR Headset For Spiders

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#10 Ceiling Snake

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#11 Dead Man Fingers Fungus

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#12 The Creatonotos Gangis Moth Unfurling Its “Hair-Pencils” To Spread Pheromones

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#13 Small Tick Sucking On A Big One

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#14 Found In A Harpy Eagle's Nest

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#15 Started Work This Morning, Put My Headset On, Felt Something Furry In My Ear, Looked And There Is A Bat In My Headset

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#16 Stygian Owl Is Known For The Red Reflection Of Their Eyes That Are Often Associated With The Devil

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#17 This Moray Tried To Swallow A Pufferfish. Said Puffer Took Her With Him

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#18 Australian Problems

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#19 Just Here To Ruin Your Day

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#20 Angler Fish Washed Ashore

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#21 This Root System Of My Calathea Plant. These Root Nodules Mean It's Very Healthy, But It's Unnerving To Look At

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#22 The Most Metal Eel Ever

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#23 Sigh. This Is My Bathroom Ceiling, That Is A Brush-Tailed Possum Foot

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#24 This Is How My Morning Started

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#25 Heron Likes A Bit Of Crocodilian Dinner

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#26 All The Brown You Can See Is Spiders

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#27 Hatchling Eastern Brown Thought It Was A Nice Day For A Swim In Mawson Lakes Today

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#28 An Old Friend

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#29 Who's That Pokémon?

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#30 Hickory Horned Devil. Largest Caterpillar In The World. Turns Into A Regal Moth. Can Grow 6 Inches Long And Is Completely Harmless Except Visually Terrifying

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#31 Snapdragon Seed Pods Are Kind Of Creepy

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#32 Mouth Of A Emerald Boa

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#33 This Cluster Of Fossilised Creatures Look Like They Came From Another Planet

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#34 Mother Nature Doesn't Care About Mother's Day

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#35 This Is A Wolf Eel, Pure Oceanic Nightmare Fuel

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#36 Brown Snake Squeezing Out Of The Shower Grid

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#37 For All The Naysayers Who Think The Rest Of Us Are Paranoid

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#38 Deep Sea Eel

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#39 These Button Plants (Conophytum Wittebergense) Look Like Creepy Bloodshot Eyes

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#40 Apparently, A Species Of Guarana Plant Looks Like A Large Cluster Of Eyeballs

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#41 The Wallago Attu Catfish

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#42 I Have Been Losing My Mind Over How My Work Shoes Are Always Spotless In The Morning After Being Out On My Porch Overnight

I wore different shoes to work last night and I found out why when I came home. There were about 50 and they only exist because of flour on my shoes.

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#43 Was Going To Paint And Found Some Wasps In The Outlet

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#44 Moth Infected With Cordyceps Fungus

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#45 This Harmless Snail

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#46 Camera Flash Made The Sheep Look Like Zombies

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#47 This Looks Like A Scene From A Movie. Six Waterspouts Simultaneously In The Gulf Of Mexico

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#48 Due To The Low Temperature, Lake Michigan Shattered Into Countless Pieces Of Ice

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#49 Found This Li'l Cutie On My Bed

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#50 These Things

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#51 A Huge Banana Spider (Argiope Aurantia) Caught A Townsend's Big-Eared Bat In Its Web Outside A Home In Poteet, Texas

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#52 Open Wide, Image Of A Port Jackson Shark, One Of Our Loveable Critters Found At Montague Island, NSW

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#53 I Took The Picture In Sindh, Pakistan In December 2010. It Shows Trees Cocooned In Spider And Caterpillar Moth Webs After The Extreme Flooding

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#54 Prehistoric Parasites. One Of The Most Interesting Crustacea We Find Along The South African Coastline Has To Be The Tongue-Eating Louse

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#55 You Never Know You'll Find When You Open A Data Logger Box On The Prairie

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#56 Found Out Why The Roomba Quit Working

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#57 I Open The Door Yesterday To Find This Hanging From The Doorknob

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#58 Local Servo Snake

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#59 Tornado Over Dallas TX Last Night

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#60 It's The Legs For Me

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#61 Hawk Making His Way Through Town Devouring Every Pigeon He Can. The Total Is Up In The Double Digits So Far

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#62 The Foot Of A Kangaroo

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#63 A Snapping Turtle Grabs Hold Of A Duck's Foot While It Was Swimming On The Surface Of A Pond And Then Drags It Down To The Depths

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#64 Microburst In Phoenix

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#65 Opened Up A Tin Of Peas

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#66 Damn Nature, You Scary

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#67 Bees Show Up Here Every Year. Stay For A Few Hours And Leave. No Hive

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#68 Wild-Caught Spotted Wolffish

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#69 Inside Out III Zoological Museum Of Kaunas

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#70 I Share A New Jaguar Photo With You, Earlier Than I Wanted. Hopefully, You Will Like This Striking Image

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#71 For Weeks We Couldn’t Find The Source Of The Horrible Smell In My Daughter's Toybox Until She Asked Me To Untangle Moana’s Hair. I Guess It Got Tangled Up And Passed Away

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#72 Got A Complaint At Work About "Very Loud Crickets" In The Bathroom

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#73 This 5-Inch Moth We Found In Our House Yard Today

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#74 The Way These Caterpillars Are Eating This Leaf

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#75 Found This In The Filling Of The Tube I Bought For The Chinchilla. Mommy And Babies Were All Dead

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#76 Long, Black, Slippery Freshwater Eels

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#77 Found This Thing On The Bottom Of My Pool

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#78 The Morning Shoe Check (Before We Put Them On) Saved My Wife A Bit Of Pain Today

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#79 This Centipede Thing

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#80 The Giant Devil’s Flower Mantis Looks Like Something That Crawled Out Of Hell

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#81 Moose In Fog

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#82 I Freaked Out A Little When I Met This While Cross Country Skiing

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#83 Jelly Ear. My First Time Finding One

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#84 Caught This Storm Above A Bowing Field Of Sunflowers

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#85 These Creepy Looking Clouds Are Called Scud Clouds

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#86 The Upper Jaw Of A Cachalot (Sockets To Fit Their Lower Teeth Into)

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#87 Earthworm With Two Tails

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#88 Had A Praying Mantis Nest Hatch By My Front Door

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#89 Butterflies Often Feed From Decaying Animals, Rotten Fruits, Blood, Animal Feces And Urine

#90 A Rattlesnake That Went Down Fighting Against California Wildfires

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#91 I Found This Intact Elk Rack Along The Continental Divide Trail Near Yellowstone Last Summer. It Was Way Too Heavy To Pack Out

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#92 Seagull Swallows A Whole Rabbit On Welsh Island

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#93 Classic Australia

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#94 Female Anglerfish With Male Attached

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#95 A Thousand Black Like Worms At My Doorstep Anyone Know What They Are?

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#96 This Spider With A Body In The Shape Of A Hellhound’s Head

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#97 Is It An Alien? No. It's A Dutch Lobster Moth Caterpillar

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#98 Acanthacorydalis Fruhstorferi Or Giant Chinese Dobson Fly

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#99 Monday Morning Before A Coffee

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#100 Does Anyone Know What Kind Of Puppy This Is?

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#101 Who's The Fun Guy? (Fungi Xylaria Polymorpha Aka Man's Toes Fungus)

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#102 This Flew Into My Ear And Got Stuck A Bit, Wife Had To Use Tweezers To Get It Out. I Felt It Wiggle The Entire Time

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#103 Update To Track The New Level Of Bugs In My Dad's Shop Microwave Display (They’re Drawn To The Clock's Backlight)

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#104 Went To Grab A Paper Towel Roll

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#105 Found This Hiking Trail In The Grey County, Ontario, Summer 2019. Not Sure What Animal, Probably A Deer? Decent Length And Had A Pelvis Attached

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#106 Sometimes Mother Nature Can Be Creepy (Chesaning, MI)

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#107 My Driveway Today

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#108 Severe Warned Storm Near Traverse City Michigan On September 7, 2021

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#109 Underworld Is Leaking

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#110 An Alligator Snapping Turtle Hibernating Under A Sheet Of Ice

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#111 Orca Stranded After The 8.3 Magnitude Earthquake In Southeast Alaska

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#112 Alligator Gar Skull I Found While Hiking Today

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#113 Vultures Keep Circling This House In My Neighborhood. Should We Call Someone?

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#114 A Wasp Carrying A Huntsman Spider

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#115 This Yam That Looks Like A Human Hand

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#116 My Newborn Kitten Was Born 3 Eyed

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#117 Frost Pattern In The Hollow Of A Rock

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#118 A Huntsman Spider Stealing My Cousin's Bacon

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#119 Got Home Late Last Night And Fortunately I Saw This Before I Tried To Unlock My Door

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#120 I Touched This While Removing The Fallen Leaves Off My Plant. I’m Calling It A Day

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#121 Very Very Tiny Creature I Felt Crawling On Me

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#122 Man Catches Australian "Sea Monster" With No Eyes And A Mouth Full Of Sharp Teeth

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#123 Scary Spider. Massive And Almost Walked Into It

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#124 Assassin Bug Babies On A Death March Out Of Their Egg Clutch. Scary

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#125 The Inside Of A Goose’s Mouth Is Pretty Scary

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#126 It's A Sea Of So Called "Portuguese Man O' War". Extremely Venomous. If You Ever See One, Stay Away, Don't Touch

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#127 Recent Photograph Made Me Search My Photo Archive For This Impressive Caecilia Abitaguae

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#128 Hydrosaurus Philippine Sailfin Lizard

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#129 This Guy Says Hi. He’s Mr. Tapeworm And He Had His Photo Taken With A Microscope. Look At That Toothy Smile

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#130 My Mom's Neighbor Has A Wasp Nest That Has Grown Around The Flood Lights On Their Garage. Sleep Tight

#131 In My Dream, I Was Being Tickled By A Feather. On My Cheek. Ended Up Finding This In My Sheets In The Morning

Needless to say, I changed my bedsheets. Absolutely hate centipedes.

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#132 Woke Up For Some Water. Thank God I Turned On The Light Before Taking A Sip

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#133 It's A Sweet Potato Sea Cucumber. Seagulls Were Eating The Insides And It Looked Bloody

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#134 This Spider Changed His Skin Several Times In The Same Spot

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#135 A Lizard Has Been Ingested By My Carnivorous Pitcher Plant. Plant:1 Lizard:0

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#136 Essex, UK. It's Not A Mating Pair, The Cephalothoraces Are Completely Fused. I Thought It Was A Mismolt, But All Sixteen Legs Move Independently

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#137 Saw This Baby Lizard Being Eaten And Carried Away By Ants

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#138 This Tree I Found Has Eyes

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#139 A Melanistic & Albino Alligator

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#140 I Put These Bug Traps Down 2 Days Ago. Just Wanted To Check In Before I Burn The House Down

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#141 Caiman With An Unusual Tail

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#142 This Cloud Formation Appeared In The Skies Above Portugal In 2016. It Has Been Dubbed The "Hand Of God"

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#143 “Fungeye” Natures Expression Of Human Body Parts

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#144 Moss Zombie

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#145 Izmir, Turkey. Huge Huntsman Spider. Haven't Seen Her Since This Encounter In The Bathroom

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#146 Found This While Digging Around In My Parent's Attic

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#147 Crazy Looking Hole Punch Clouds Over Central Florida

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#148 I Found This In My Crawlspace

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#149 Tree In The Napa Wildfire, Taken By My Buddy

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#150 Laccaria Masoniae In South Island, New Zealand

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#151 In This Period Of The End Of The Year When The Temperatures Rise, We Sometimes Observe Thunderstorms. So Here Are My Very First Images Ever Of This Phenomenon

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#152 Mantis. Let’s All Take A Minute And Be Thankful That Bugs Aren’t The Same Size As Us

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#153 These Blue Dragons Seriously Look Like Aliens To Me

Such a weird-looking creature but the best thing about them is that they eat bluebottles, so we need a lot more of these blue warriors to get rid of bluebottles.