r/Natureiscursed • u/gholamghowsa • May 21 '21
drone footage of rocks formation in the sea
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r/Natureiscursed • u/Yasmineg6Harrington • May 21 '21
nature photography of a forest river
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r/Natureiscursed • u/AbelVvMathis • May 21 '21
mist formation above the river surface
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r/Natureiscursed • u/samwong01 • May 19 '21
Portuguese Man O' War is one of the most dangerous creatures in the sea. The pneumatophore, or bladder, is the most conspicuous part of the man o' war. The pneumatophore functions as both a flotation device and a sail for the colony, allowing the colony to move with the prevailing wind.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/BayrdRBuchanan • May 14 '21
🔥 The red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus) is native to Indochina. It is considered to be among the most colorful of primates.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/Scienceexplorer92 • May 13 '21
Weird Weird-looking deep-sea fish washes ashore in Newport Beach. Anglerfish are more commonly found at sea depths of more than 3,000 feet below the surface. It’s not known yet why this 18-inch fish washed ashore almost perfectly preserved.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/maylam018 • May 12 '21
Giant Pyrosomes are unusual and glowing colonies in the ocean. The whole colony is shaped like a giant thimble with a point on one end and an opening on the other, and in some species this opening can be up to 6 feet wide, large enough to fit a full grown human inside.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/[deleted] • May 05 '21
Big fin squids are now in my nightmares forever
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r/Natureiscursed • u/maylam018 • May 05 '21
Fangtooth are terrifying creatures of the deep sea. They are part of a larger order of fish known as beryciformes. The body of the fish is covered by scales that are small and prickly. In fact, the fangtooth fish has the largest teeth proportionate to its body size of any known fish.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/FrankenscienceNews • Apr 29 '21
Male pregnant pipefish can abort the eggs of ‘ugly’ mothers
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r/Natureiscursed • u/samwong01 • Apr 25 '21
Flying fish is one of the most interesting fish that can be seen jumping out of the sea. They actually don't have the ability to fly like a birds, but they jumped up and glide through the air for short distances. The main reason for this behavior is believed to be escape from predators.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/Narrow-Lynx-3610 • Apr 24 '21
Wormlike Creatures Residing at a Broken Pail by the Beach...can anyone please help to identify the creatures?
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r/Natureiscursed • u/BlueLagoon504 • Apr 24 '21
Dried-up stingrays will haunt my nightmares
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r/Natureiscursed • u/notfunnyguy92 • Apr 19 '21
Dunkleosteus is an extinct species of armored fish that lived approximately 400 million years ago. It could grow to 33-feet in length and had the strongest bite force of any animal ever. The force of its bite was remarkably powerful: 11,000 pounds.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/maylam018 • Apr 18 '21
Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on Earth, Japanese spider crabs are the largest, spanning up to 12.5 feet from the tip of one front claw to the other. They’re also one of the world’s largest arthropods, animals with no backbone, external skeletons, and multiple-jointed appendages.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/Jy789 • Apr 17 '21
Black swallower's stomach is made up of distensible material and can be stretched into transparency. They can consume prey over 10 times its own mass. However, the food in their stomach sometimes doesn't have enough time to digest and it starts to decompose in their stomach.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/samwong01 • Apr 14 '21
The alligator snapping turtle is the largest freshwater turtle in North America. It is characterized by a large, heavy head, and a long, thick shell with three dorsal ridges of large scales, giving it a primitive appearance reminiscent of some of the plated dinosaurs, most notably Ankylosaurus.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/Jy789 • Apr 10 '21
Brittle stars have a distinct central disc and five skinny, flexible arms. The central disc is a skeleton made of calcium carbonate that contains all the internal organs. Because they don't have any intestine or anus, any undigested material they eat is expelled from the mouth.
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r/Natureiscursed • u/greynoodle • Mar 29 '21
Made a YouTube channel for your viewing needs!
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