Nature & Wildlife Pictures & Videos
The Giant’s Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight [...]
The Kawah Ijen Volcano in East Java, Indonesia has an active vent which is a source of elemental sulfur. The sulfur, which is deep red in color when molten, pours slowly from the ends of these pipes and pools on the ground, turning bright yellow as it cools. Photographer Olivier Grunewald has recently made several [...]
A time-lapse compilation of images showing the same spot throughout the year, it’s pretty fantastic to see the changes that the landscape goes through over just 1 year’s time. One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.
Given enough time trees will break through, grow around, and even grow over just about anything. Here are some trees that have done just that. Growing through houses, growing over signs and over benches. Source: http://www.funzug.com/index.php/nature/amazing-strength-of-nature.html
This video is a compilation of some epic land/mud/rock slides. It’s pretty amazing to see a bunch of dirt toss around trees, cars, and even houses.
For a few weeks in February, if the water is flowing in Horsetail Fall at Yosemite National Park, photographers and park visitors gather in the waning evening light for an amazing natural display. The ‘natural firefall’ appears when the angle of the setting sun sets the waterfall ablaze with reds and oranges, like a fire [...]
Penitentes, or nieves penitentes, are a snow formation found at high altitudes. They take the form of tall thin blades of hardened snow or ice closely spaced with the blades oriented towards the general direction of the sun. Penitentes can be as tall as a person. Source
The Cave of the Crystals or Cueva de los Cristales is a cave connected to the Naica Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico. The main chamber contains giant selenite crystals, some of the largest natural crystals ever found. The cave’s largest crystal found to date is 36 ft in length,13 ft in diameter and 55 tons in [...]
Here’s a bunch of pictures of random awesome looking trees!
In Uzbekistan there is a hole. In this hole, there is fire. Reportedly, a group of geologists where drilling in the area when they discovered large pockets of highly flammable gas. They attempted to burn the gas away so that they could safely reenter the hole but the fire never went out. But this is [...]
