Animals

July 11, 2019

Natural Phenomenon Transforms Hummingbird’s Wings into Tiny Rainbows

Artist and photographer Christian Spencer was standing on his verandah in Rio de Janeiro when he made an amazing discovery. When the black Jacobin hummingbird flew with the sun striking its open wings, a beautiful prism effect appeared. At that moment, it was as if its body was made of rainbows. In 2011, Spencer recorded the bird's movements for a film called The Dance of Time.

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July 2, 2019

20+ Purrfect Portraits of Fabulous Felines Standing on Two Legs

If you’ve ever observed a cat for any length of time, you know one thing: they are weird creatures! From darting across the room for no reason to their intense love of boxes, felines exhibit all sorts of strange behavior (that often makes us laugh). Photographer Alexis Reynaud was inspired by these oddities. It led him to create the series Standing Cats, in which glamorous felines are seen posing upright on two feet.

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June 24, 2019

Man Spends 30 Years Photographing the Most Bizarre Cold-Blooded Animals on Earth

For the last 27 years, renowned reptile and amphibian photographer Matthijs Kuijpers has been traveling the world to immortalize the rarest and most bizarre species on Earth. The colorful, and often endangered, animals are strikingly beautiful and Kuijpers captures their unique characteristics through his incredible animal portraits. Cold Instinct is the culmination of a lifetime of work, with Kuijpers pushing himself to extremes to take his photographs.

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