38 Fascinating Photos of Our Fascinating World

1.

“A cats eyes when it sees prey.”

2.

“Creative Colored Pencil Art.”

3.

“On stick-charts used to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe, the sticks represent wave patterns and shells mark the atolls. (Marshall Islands, Micronesia | May 1967)”

4.

“Greek prostitutes would advertise via their shoes which would say “follow me” and that would be imprinted in the sand.”

5.

“A praying mantis (hymenaea protera) trapped in amber, approximately 12 million years old.”

6.

“Solar eclipse today in India!”

7.

“The Afghan girl at 12 and at 30.”

8.

“In eastern Serbia, strip miners unearthed a well-preserved flat-bottomed ship, likely dating to the Roman period, that was built for navigating the shallow waters of what was once a tributary of the Danube.”

9.

“One of the only few pictures ever taken on Venus.”

10.

“Cresent shaped shadows during the eclipse in Vietnam today.”

11.

“Armor piercing shell from a 17-pdr gun embedded in a section of armor from a Tiger I tank.”

12.

“Large duck orchid.”

13.

“2000 year old Roman shoe.”

14.

“Interesting road to travel.”

15.

“WW1 U.S. Army Helmet with skull trench art on the front.”

16.

“Annular Solar Eclipse.”

17.

“Peralasseri Subrahmanya Temple-largest Stepwell of Kerala.”

18.

“This underwater cave in Russia.”

19.

“Scientists have discovered Real-life Kermit The Frog living in Costa Rica.”

20.

“This is one of the biggest personal weapons used by man, the punt gun. It was used for hunting ducks on an industrial scale. It was proven so deadly that nowadays it is illegal in most Western countries.”

21.

African Black Rain Frog.

22.

“Tusk of woolly mammoth most likely killed by ancient hunters, Siberia.”

23.

“Juvenile owls often sleep face down because their heads are too heavy.”

24.

“This world record kelsae onion weighing in at 18lbs 1oz”

25.

“A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.”

26.

“The aftermath of two very close stars dying together.”

27.

“68 MILLION-year-old fossil found in Antarctica turns out to be an EGG!”

28.

“Full size LEGO McLaren 720S”

29.

“Napoleon’s three chamber box lock pistol.”

30.

“Butterfly Eggs of the Nymphalis Antiopa.”

31.

“The Bering sea and the Pacific Ocean meet near the Gulf of Alaska. Glacial sediments cause a difference in the densities and salinity and surface tension forms a thin wall that prevents mixing for some time. They eventually mix as the border is not static.”

32.

“Blue bladed crystals of azurite with malachite from Milpillas mine, Sonora, Mexico.”

33.

“A Shark carved into the bush by local Biripi aboriginal people.”

34.

“What a walk on ISS looks like...”

35.

“This hyper-realistic pencil drawing.”

36.

“This isn’t dirt - this is untempered chocolate before it’s melted and formed into bars.”

37.

“Engagement ring which Napoleon Bonaparte gave to Josephine.”

38.

“A 6 sided dice from the Indus Valley Civilization-2500 BC”