An aerial drone tour of Hang Son Doong in Vietnam – the world’s largest cave, discovered in 1991 – created by caver and travel photographer Ryan Deboodt.
The largest chamber is 5 km long, 200m high and 150m wide but you get a much better grasp of the scale of the place when the drone occasionally flies over some teeny, tiny humans.
An extraordinary picture of a shooting star reflected in the waters of Loch Ness in the Scottish highlands last night by The Hebridean Explorer.
(H/T: Pixie Boots)
Meanwhile, in other defiant news…
Knitzer writes:
Defiant Tricolour, Neukölln, Berlin
Two recently discovered species of Peacock spider, discovered in southeast Queensland, Australia by UC Berkeley graduate student Madeline Girard who promptly nicknamed them ‘Sparklemuffin’ and ‘Skeletorus’.
The arachnids measure just 0.75cm across and, like other Peacock spiders, are named on account of their colourful displays and elaborate mating dance.
MORE: Meet 2 New Spider Species: ‘Skeletorus’ and ‘Sparklemuffin’ (Live Science)
Now you continue to see them.
Some of the two dozen outrageously cute baby Veiled Chameleons recently hatched at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsQHWj2RfXg
Far more interesting than watching paint dry.
A fascinating, arguably beautiful 2009 timelapse video capturing the growth of various forms of mould by Russian photographer Nick Lariontsev.
Try to imagine it as a wordless documentary about changing seasons on an alien planet.
Then later, when the mites appear, imagine they’re translucent xeno-deer, grazing.
Come on. You can do this.
Images of waves crashing on the Nantucket shore in Massachussetts last week by photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh, who noticed that, while not completely frozen in the -7°C conditions, the sea was thick with ice fragments, causing the waves to move as if they had the consistency of Slushy.
A solar eruption on Saturday captured by the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite.
A trailer for an upcoming film called Porgrave by Italian documentary filmmaker Sandro Bocci featuring coral, sponges and other undersea exotica under ulraviolet light.
Full screen, darkened room, surround sound, mystery pill and dragon-print kimono recommended
Indonesian wildlife photographer Hendy Mp captures the bizarre and joyous spectacle of a Reinwardt’s Flying Frog atop a giant horned wood-boring beetle.
Yee, and furthermore, har.
