xtra space

gross, stick your hands in it

[sea-slug-daily]

Hero formosa

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/2530078

[lionfloss]

Rocky Shoals Spider Lily

[sacred-portal]

[formlab]

Nature loves you, Gizem Akdag, 2025

[transparentfossil]

5.45" Sparkling Quartz Chalcedony Stalactite Formation - India

[makingimages]

[snototter]

A Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) in Galapagos, Ecuador

by divindk

[emmaklee]

hibiscus pollen

(ph Csaba Pinter)

[myxomycota]

Heterotrichia versicolor by Tim Boomer

[onenicebugperday]

Blyborough bat tick, Argas vespertilionis, Argasidae (softbacked ticks)

This individual was found on a deceased host, Eptesicus serotinus, the serotine bat (photo one is on the bat’s wing).

Photographed by Gilles San Martin

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

Massive craters pockmark the barren landscape of the Nevada desert, remnants of nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and subsequent decades.

[wrotten]

Schellenberger Eishoehle/Ice Cave Berchtesgaden Alps, Germany

[ortodelmondo]

Jean Dieuzaide - 1968 - Art 1132 La cygogne blessée (reboisement)

[godsyrup]

     Columns are formed by the unions of stalagmites and stalactites. As compound cave formations, they include among their ranks the tallest free-standing speleothems in the world.

[389]

Sulfur, salt, and other minerals color the crater of Dallol volcano, part of the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia. At 157 feet (48 meters) below sea level, Dallol is Earth’s lowest land volcano.

Photograph by Carsten Peter

[expressions-of-nature]

Lake Baikal, Russia by Nadezhda Demkina

[transparentfossil]

2.75" Fossil Eocrinoid (Ascocystites) - El Kaid Rami, Morocco