Ophiocordyceps caloceroides sprouting its fruiting body off a dead tarantula1yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
Bull Moose shedding and eating his own antler velvet, as they tend to do once a year1yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
Sperm whale carcass with squid battle scars, on an English beach2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
A manta ray inspecting itself in a mirror, part of the mirror test to see if they are self aware. The two rays studied at the University of South Florida did indeed pass the test.2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
A living giant squid washes ashore on Western Japan’s beach, one of the unusual and few times they wash ashore alive1yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
Goro Furuta’s Diplocaulus sculpture, a very well detailed and designed replica of an anomalous amphibian of the Carboniferous-Permian convergence2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
The Platypus glows a blue-green color when placed under a UV light source2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
Kinabalu giant red leech slurping up the Kinabalu giant eartworm2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
The Megaloceros, or “Irish elk,” had the largest antlers of any known deer with some if the biggest bulls having antlers spanning 3.65 meters or about 12 feet and is the heaviest known deer at over 700 kg(1,500 pounds) due to the bull’s rack2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
The Kinabalu giant red leech swallowing up the Kinabalu giant earthworm1mo ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
Grizzly bear eating the carcass of an elk, down by the Yellowstone river1yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
The largest organism by sheer mass, volume, and area is a mushroom covering 2,400 acres in Malheur National Forest, Oregon2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
Salmon slowly rotting away while making their way to the spawning grounds2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
One of the largest and weirdest freshwater fish, the American paddlefish, have an almost entirely cartilaginous skeleton yet are actually cousins to sturgeons2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
The extreme sexual dimorphism of the bagworm moth. Adult Male on top, adult female on bottom. Adult males turn into moths to venture out of their bagworm-case, while females stay in a caterpillar-like form and remain in their bags while waiting for the males.2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
The horrifying mouth of the sea lamprey, complete with rasping tongue and sharp teeth for parasitism (top). And a lake trout with the characteristic wound of the lamprey’s vampiric feeding habits (bottom).2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
Nothronychus the “slothful claw,” the bizarre herbivorous-oddball among large theropods2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Maw of the Sea Lamprey. Parasitic bloodsuckers as adults, they have been introduced to the Great Lakes region where they are invasive, as many of the native fish species had no contact with lampreys before. With New York State having to spend $500,000 per year just to control these fish.1yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
Well, it’s my first time posting here, so have an Elephant Yoshi (OC)6mo ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/YosHi
Lioness and zebra wrestling each other during the peak of the day2yr ⋅ The-BeastMasterZ00 ⋅ r/natureismetal
