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(via This Is What it’s like to Be in a Leopard Seal’s Mouth : The Scuttlefish)
“I slipped into the water terrified of what might happen and I swam up to this leopard seal. My legs were shaking and I had dry mouth…she took my whole head and camera inside her mouth…”
National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen went to Antarctica to photograph a leopard seal and came across the biggest seal his guide had ever seen. After trying to engulf him, the seal began to nurture Nicklen, bringing first live, then injured, then dead penguins as he continuously rejected her offerings. This continued for four and a half days.
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(via National Geographic Visits to the USSR | English Russia)
- A girl from Altai
- Engraver at work, Tobolsk
(via The Smallest Parts of Our World - National Geographic)
Perched on the tendril of aPassiflora plant, the egg of the Julia heliconian butterfly may be safe from hungry ants. The eggs are no larger than .07 inch.
Photograph By Martin Oeggerli, National Geographic
(via TYWKIWDBI (“Tai-Wiki-Widbee”): Cladonota Inflatus)
Treehoppers are truly awesome creatures. See also here.
This photo from National Geographic, via Mark’s Scrapbook of Oddities & Treasures.
(via Super Punch: National Geographic Photo Contest 2011)
Photo by David Litchfield for this collection of 54 photos submitted to the National Geographic photo contest.
(via ZENITH presents another HEARING TRIUMPH!)
Source: National Geographic ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1958
“A beautiful photograph I found in a January, 1930 National Geographic Magazine, taken by Clifton Adams. The caption reads:
“AN UNDERWATER FAIRYLAND IS SEEN AT SILVER SPRINGS
So clear is the water that submarine flora, growing amid fantastic formations of rock and shell, with fish darting about, is plainly visible even where the spring is 80 feet deep. This girl swimmer, feeding the tame fish, is many feet below the surface. In the background is the dim hulk of a sunken boat.”
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Recently Discovered Species, Philippines: Swell Shark
A new deep-sea swell shark is one of the hundreds of potentially new species discovered on a recent expedition to the Philippines. The shark, so named because it can suck in water to swell up and frighten predators, is likely new to science. Other known species of swell shark live elsewhere in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, according to expedition scientists at the California Academy of Sciences.
Biologists spent 42 days on and around Luzon Island (see map), the largest island in the Philippine archipelago, surveying creatures of the land and sea. While many of the species still need to be confirmed as new using microscopes or DNA sequencing, the tea.
(via: National Geo)
(photo: Stephanie Stone, California Academy of Sciences)
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