Trees FTW!

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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

Goats in a Tree

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One of our most popular stories to date has been about fainting goats. These goats don’t faint, which is probably for the best because they are all up in a tree.

Penitentes

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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

Albino Animals

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Animals come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, but sometimes they just come in all shapes and sizes. Here are a few albino animals that forget to get their colors put on. Source

Trees are awesome

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Here’s a bunch of pictures of random awesome looking trees!

Weird 6ft Sea Creature

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A new species of mysterious sea animal? No, unfortunately not, it’s actually a mass of Goose barnacles which were clinging to a log that washed up on a beach in Wales. Some amazing images nonetheless. Source

Mammatus clouds

Mammatus Clouds

Mammatus clouds (named for their similarity to a woman’s mammaries) look more like a threatening apocalyptic doom cloud, these images show Mammatus clouds from around the world.

The Door to Hell

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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 [...]

The colorful river

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The river shown in the photographs is the Caristales, which is located near the town of La Macarena in Columbia, South America. The river, world famous for its colourful display, has been called “the river that ran away to paradise”, “the most beautiful river in the world” and “the river of five colours”.

The Rainbow Eucalyptus

The Rainbow Eucalyptus

The Rainbow Eucalyptus tree is native to tropical areas, it sheds its bark at various times throughout the year, and as it does the inner bark changes from blue to purple, pink, orange, and finally maroon. This gives the tree a spectacular rainbow effect.