Jungle cat on a tree at Sundarban, West Bengal, India.
Isn't this baby barn owl simply adorable? 😃
Before learning to fly, baby owls have to develop their muscles first, and this particular baby owl had apparently decided to do so by going for a run. 🙂
Camouflage at its best ... the buff-tip moth
When a buff-tip moth rests amongst broken twigs on the woodland floor, or amongst branches on a tree, it almost disappears from sight!
Two newly discovered land snails beat the 2015 world record for the smallest land snails in existence!
The new diminutive world record-holder was found on the wall of a cave in northern Vietnam, according to a study published in January in Contributions to Zoology. This species’ shell measures 0.6 millimeters in diameter.
The second smallest recently discovered species of land snail, was found in a limestone gorge in northern Loas.
A penguin races ahead of the pack --- but then the ice breaks. Will the penguin make it back to safety, and rejoin his fellow penguins?
