The Manned Wolf

Standing at almost a metre tall, the maned wolf is the largest Canid in South America and the only member of its genus.

Night View Of Nanga Parbat, Pakistan Copyright Engr. HaMza NiaZi

Tong, a seven-year-old chimpanzee, drinks water from a pipe to cool him off from 100 degree temperatures at the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand. (Apichart Weerawong/Associated Press)

Annular Eclipse 5.21.2012

"An annular solar eclipse took place on May 20, 2012 (May 21, 2012 for local time in Eastern Hemisphere), with a magnitude of 0.9439. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometers wide. This is also known as Ring of Fire." The annular phase was visible from the Chinese coast, northern Taiwan, the south of Japan, and the western part of the United States. Guangzhou, Taipei, Tokyo and Albuquerque were on the central path. Its maximum occurred in part of the North Pacific, south of the Aleutian islands for 5 min and 46.3 s, and finished in the western United States."

Taken in China

Taken in Philippines

Taken in Philippines

Albino Zebra

Croatian Illustrator Tomislav Tomić

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Blood red falls of primordial "ooze"

The five-story, red waterfall known as the Blood Falls got its name after explorer and geologist Griffith Taylor stumbled across it in 1911 and thought it resembled blood pouring from a wound. Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

Crystal Catapillar

Macropinna microstoma is watching you

Dolphins in Brasil help fisherman make their catch

Glass Work by Andy Paiko

"It would be easy to appreciate Andy Paiko solely for his wide variety of intricate glass vessels. They so deftly mix nostalgia and modernity, any would look at home in the Mütter Museum as well as the Guggenheim. Yet Paiko seeks to create more than just beauty for adoration’s sake alone, he is a lover of functionality and is passionately reinventing how glass behaves and ultimately is perceived."

Balloons above Myanmar

Deer shaped hydro tower concept designed by Moscow-based Design Depot. Instead of the abrasive look of a typical power line, the deer concept would at least bring a bit of clever artistic thinking to an otherwise banal structure.