Currently doing the rounds of Japan’s Twittersphere – the adorable Jorunna parva sea slug whose rhinophores resemble the fluffy ears of bunnies.
Faceless, legless, mucus coated bunnies.
The best kind of bunnies.
Category Archives: Nature
The Flash
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An extraordinarily fortunately timed photograph taken by A Regular Tom Sawyer just as a frog leaps out of frame from a person’s hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCuFK29EFa4
Quill To Power by Al Katraz Films.
Alan Caulfield writes:
Here’s our short documentary about a pair of peregrine falcons nesting on the Poolbeg chimneys. Since we made the film, they have had two chicks, which flew the nest a few weeks ago and are still in the area.
Save Poolbeg.
Night Blooms
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Echinopsis cactus flowers only bloom at night and then only for a few hours.
To capture the spectacular display, Echinopsis aficionado Greg Krehel uses a HD camera timelapse system, set up overnight. These are his favourite blooms of 2014.
An extraordinary timelapse (shot at one second intervals) of a stationary supercell thunderstorm over the Black Hills of South Dakota near Rapid City on June 1, 2015 filmed by landscape photographer Nicolaus Wegner.
Go full screen for optimum effect.
Hitchhiker
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A sequence of images captured last year at Kitsap, Washington by photographer Phoo Chan. Sez he:
Crows are known for aggressively harassing other raptors that are much bigger in size when spotted in their territories and usually these ‘intruders’ simply retreat without much fuss. However, in this frame the crow did not seem to harass the bald eagle at such close proximity and neither did the bald eagle seem to mind the crow’s presence invading its personal space. What made it even more bizarre was that the crow even made a brief stop on the back of the eagle as if it was taking a free scenic ride and the eagle simply obliged.
The Flock
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Rebeccah writes:
Murmuration in Carrick-on-Shannon [Co Leitrim] last night
A tiny octopus (first discovered 20 years ago) that may soon be named Opistoteuthlis adorabilis, on account of the adorbz what it has.
The honour of naming a new species always goes to the first scientist to thoroughly classify and describe it, in this case, Stephanie Bush of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
It’s cute, but it’s no Squishy.
Sky Candy
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A hi-res timelapse of the eruption of the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile last April by Martin Heck of Timestorm Films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIojj4PzAo
Spectacular slow motion footage of Violas, Touch-Me-Nots and Squirting Cucumbers doing their explosive propagative thing from the Smithsonian Channel.
You at the back. Stop that sniggering.