THE 2020 WILDLIFE COMEDY AWARDS ARE IN! Every year the good people at the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards treat us to a belly laugh! They were founded by Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam, both professional photographers and passionate conservationists. In addition to providing some light-hearted relief, the competition aims to highlight the extremely important message of […]
Category: Animals
The Giant Crabs That May Have Eaten Amelia Earhart. Coconut Crabs Are Huge!
The Coconut Crab Kills Birds And Breaks Bones – And May Have Eaten Amelia Earhart. Its claws are as powerful as a lions jaw. Charles Darwin called them simply “Monstrous” when he first saw them for himself. Their pincers are some of the most powerful and most dangerous weapons in the animal kingdom. If its […]
Creative And Adorable Parenting – Bird Style!
Creative And Adorable Parenting – Bird Style! A collection of wonderful images of birds parenting in their unique and loving way! A bond between a parent and their young ones is strong. It doesn’t matter the species, and birds are no exception! At Our Earth, we have seen some beautiful moments between mothers and their […]
Spiders Wearing Water Droplets as Hats… Yup, You Read That Correctly!
At Our Earth, we see some pretty incredible things, but when I saw these images, I had to investigate more. It turns out these jumping spiders were photographed in Indonesia in someones back yard. Photographer Uda Dennie managed to snap the pictures of the arachnids surrounded by water droplets in his garden. For the balls […]
Birds we love because of their sass!
Birds are crazy, lovable pets. They undeniably have a personality, and some really seem to love humans and human contact! We at Illuzone and Our Earth love sharing them, so here is a collection of birds we love because they have a personality! “One day, I want to look at myself the same way that my bird looks at himself.” […]
In Pictures – Nature reclaims public spaces during the lockdown
Nature is incredibly swift at reclaiming the planet when humans are not around. Here are some powerful images of nature reclaiming public spaces during the lockdown around the planet. All around the planet, animals are turning up in urban and city areas. Pollution has dropped dramatically too. Clear skies in Paris Animals of all kinds […]
Fox Found With Impressive Shoe Collection In Berlin
A fox in berlin has been caught hoarding an impressive amount of shoes. Locals in Zehlendorf, Berlin, were puzzled for weeks at the disappearing sports shoes and sandals that were vanishing at night from their gardens reported the BBC. Finally, a man spotted the culprit on a patch of wasteland, “it was flagrantly carrying two […]
Hummingbirds see colours we can only imagine – Making Them Even More Awesome!
Humans are colour-blind compared to birds and many other animals. Put simply, humans have three types of retina colour cones, and birds have four. This makes us sensitive to red, green and blue light. A new study shows that tiny hummingbirds see colours we can’t even imagine! Birds have a fourth, that lets them detect […]
Fire Snails – Very Rare And Under Threat
Platymma tweediei is its full name, but Fire Snail as it is also known sounds way cooler. They are incredibly rare, found only in a 100km radius in an area in Malaysia, and they are under threat from humans. They are highly sought after by exotic pet collectors, despite them being almost impossible to keep […]
The critically endangered Saiga Antelope
The saiga antelope is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest. Prone to being hunted for their horns, the Saiga Antelope is now one threat level above being totally extinct. During 2014-15 […]