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 […]
Category: Animals
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 […]
Stranger than Fiction-A Leopard and motherly Cow
This unprecedented strange relationship between a wild leopard and its prey-the cow observed in Antoli village in Vadodara district in Gujarat, India. The cow would sometimes lick the cat on its head and neck. To many observers, it seemed that the cow was behaving towards the leopard as she would towards her own calf. You […]
Meet the Rare Swimming Wolves That Eat Seafood
These rarely seen animals of Vancouver Island, the Swimming Wolves That Eat Seafood! So let’s Meet the Rare Swimming Wolves. “They move like ghosts along the shorelines of Canada’s Vancouver Island, so elusive that people rarely see them lurking in the mossy forests.” British filmmaker Bertie Gregory was one of the lucky ones: He saw coastal wolves—also known as […]
Photographers being interrupted by wildlife!
Here is an amazing collection of photographers being interrupted by wildlife. It’s not supposed to work this way! Some of these have appeared on the Our Earth Facebook page A perfect example of the image hunter becoming the hunted! Some seem genuinely curious! Always after the shot! Keeping him warm! Others are clearly not thrilled […]
Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards – Our Picks!
Every year the clever people at ComedyWildlife.com put together the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. We are so glad they do! The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are held every year! There are countless hilarious submissions in the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, see some of them below! In their fifth year, the organisers are big on conservation. […]
Before And After – The Magical Butterfly and Moth Transformation
Butterflies in their adult stage can live from a week to nearly a year depending on the species. Let us get right to the stunning images, before and after! If you want more interesting content, check out some of the great stuff here! Courtship is often aerial and often involves pheromones. The before and after images […]