It's Earth Day, and while we celebrate the beauty of the natural world around us, animals are out there living their best lives, brawling, battling and generally being more bada— than we even realize.
From snakes and birds duking it out to a look at what really goes on inside a Harpy eagle's nest, here are 21 insane photos that prove nature is actually metal AF.
1
“Angler Fish Washed Ashore.”
2
“Chicken with genetic defect.”
3
“The ongoing eruption of Mt. Etna in Italy.”
4
“Thick Bear with soulless murder eyes.”
5
“The 10,000 year old skull of an extinct Giant Irish elk found by a fisherman.”
6
“A standoff between two bighorn sheep in the Colorado Rockies.”
7
“I heard some noise on the roof this morning.”
8
“A lion's tongue is rougher than coarse sandpaper. Its lingual spines or papillae (pics 2,3) make the tongue so rough that if a lion licked the back of your hand only a few times, you would be left without any skin.”
9
“Found in a harpy eagle's nest.”
11
“Yawning Mandrill showing why he's not to be f—ed with.”
12
“That must be the worst crocodile I have heard of.”
13
“Grizzly Bear biting into a pregnant salmon.”
14
“A Scorpion Turned Entirely Into Copper (Found In A Mine In Southern Arizona, Us).”
15
“Marmot realizes it's been caught by a fox.”
16
“This abandoned seal pup survived on the milk of a dead sheep for a couple days.”
17
“The skeleton of a puffer fish is pretty f—g metal.”
18
“A Cardinal and a Blue Jay have a little confrontation.”
19
“Chinese water deer, a species of deer that evolved fangs instead of antler.”
20
“Long exposure of lightning over a volcano in Chile.”
21
“Coyote munch’n on a squirrel.”
