Painted Planet

Photos by artists and photographers with wide variety in species and appearances. Photos are not taken by me.

[misterowlhoots]

[paintedplanet]

Little Owls (by Linz27)

[porpoise-princess-deactivated20]

This is a list of all the cetacean books I currently own:

Freeing the Whales—Tom Rose

The Killer Whales of Prince William Sound—Craig Matkin

Into Great Silence—Eva Saulitis

Listening to Whales—Alexandra Morton

Death At SeaWorld—David Kirby

Beluga Days—Nancy Lord

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[mothernaturenetwork]

African lake turns animals into statues Tanzania’s Lake Natron calcifies the animals that die in its waters, and Nick Brandt captures them with eerie photographs.

[earthandanimals]

Snow lover by SOphie Guillemette

[thingswithantlers]

By Leonardo Avelino Duarte

[beautiful-wildlife]

V by Luc Parent

Male Snowy Owl in a Winter Storm

[lookatthisthing]

Namaqua rain frog (Breviceps namaquensis), Southern Africa

Hear its angry battle cry here.

[thelovelyseas]

great hammerhead20 by AlKok on Flickr.

[phototoartguy]

Mmmmm Bananas by Andy Morffew on Flickr.

[phototoartguy]

244 (Large) by AussieByron on Flickr.

[thelovelyseas]

008-002-002 (Moray Eel) Bali Tulamben by PaoloLora on Flickr.

[expressions-of-nature]

Rainy Morning by Christina Locke

[creatures-alive]

Leafbird by Sandeep Dutta

[dynamicoceans]

Sunfish, or mola, develop their truncated, bullet-like shape because the back fin which they are born with simply never grows. Instead, it folds into itself as the enormous creature matures, creating a rounded rudder called a clavus. Their teeth are fused into a beak-like structure, and they are unable to fully close their relatively small mouths.

Source Video

[the-shark-blog]

Roatan Shark Dive by Scubaben

[animalics]

Pygmy falcon , San Diego Zoo Safari Park

by autumnish

[trynottodrown]

Daddy by Mark Fuller A male cardinalfish rotates the eggs brooding in his mouth — giving oxygen to his next offspring Location: Eilat, Israel, Red Sea