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“Don’t mind me, just checking on my sandbank investments!” A Brandt’s cormorant takes account of a rich sand dollar bed, looking for a pretty piscine penny to pinch.

It isn’t uncommon for divers along Cannery Row to see cormorants diving after a fishy meal. Unlike puffins and penguins, cormorants don’t use their wings to swim—instead, they paddle with their legs, using their large webbed feet to overcome the buoyant force that eventually pulls the bird back to the surface like a cork, hopefully with its meal secured.

📷 by Kate Vylet 

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Spotted eagle-owl in South Africa.!!

by Trevor Hardaker

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Prognathodon fossil on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

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Cabbage White Butterfly by Nati Levy

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a rare albino black vulture that was spotted in texas. albino birds rarely make it to adulthood, due to being easy targets for predators. since black vultures mainly feed off of carrion, it’s life is likely easier than that of an albino bird that hunts for its food, as it isn’t blatantly visible to its prey.

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Photo of the day: This female ibex is definitely NOT afraid of heights

Photo by Stefano Zocca (Bologna, Italy); Altopiano del Montasio, Udine, Italy

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Blaueis (by Tom Sonnleitner)

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Sun Bear 100612ac by jt893x on Flickr.

#Nature#Photo

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Tarachodula pantherina, i said i’d never get a mantis again, but then i saw these had been bought into the hobby, a holy grail species from before i’d never think i’d see. And holy crap are they stunning, got 3 teeny nymphs.

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Liophidium pattoni

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harlequin macaw

photo via birdorable