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🧊 What Antarctica would look like without ice... The continent is home to the largest volcano range on earth, and it's the largest glaciovolcanic province in the world. What's below Antarctica's ice👇 earthlymission.com/hundreds-vol... Image credits: What If / NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Mushrooms growing on a zombie ant. The fungus infects its prey and grows through its body, consuming it and taking over its mind, forcing it to an elevation where the spores can later spread to the next victim. More about the zombie ant👇 earthlymission.com/fungus-turns... 📷 Bernard Dupont

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This is 'hair ice' - a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair. Also known as 'ice wool' or 'frost beard', this natural phenomenon is pretty uncommon👇 earthlymission.com/hair-ice-fro... 📷 Ronaldhuizer

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Dragon lizard playing a leaf guitar. More about the musical lizard👇 earthlymission.com/dragon-lizar... 📷 Aditya Permana

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This creepy-looking fungus infects corn kernels, turning them into a delicacy used in quesadillas and other foods. More images/info about the edible corn fungus👇 earthlymission.com/huitlacoche-... 📷 nvr_fd_away

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A sleepy Japanese macaque. 📷 Daisuke Tashiro

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Big ball of fire... Rare photo of a 65-foot (20-meter) tall lava dome captured during the 1969 eruption of the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii. While lava domes are pretty common, symmetrical ones are extremely rare. More about this amazing lava dome👇 earthlymission.com/rare-photo-s... 📷 USGS

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Some of Japan's last Samurai photographed in the 1860s by Felice Beato. More photos/info about Japan's last Samurai👇 earthlymission.com/the-last-of-...

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Was Magellan the first to sail around the globe? The fascinating story of the first circumnavigation👇 earthlymission.com/magellan-exp...

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Position of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world with an altitude of 3,812 meters, compared to Lake Baikal and the Great Lakes. More about the world's deepest/highest lakes👇 earthlymission.com/how-high-are...

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Broadway Tower in Cotswolds, England. 📷 Newton2

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Built in the middle 1100s AD, Montezuma Castle in Camp Verde, Arizona, is a set of remarkable cliff dwellings that were inhabited by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous groups. More👇 earthlymission.com/montezuma-ca... 📸 Beyond My Ken

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More amazing baby stingray photos/info about their serious defense tools👇 earthlymission.com/baby-stingra...

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Fresh water collecting in the valleys between sand dunes in Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil. Why the water doesn't get absorbed by the sand👇 earthlymission.com/lencois-mara... 📷 Julius Dadalti

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This rare optical sight called the "Brocken spectre" or the "mountain spectre" occurs when someone stands at a higher altitude on a mountain and sees their shadow cast on a cloud at a lower altitude. More about the Brocken spectre: earthlymission.com/brocken-spec...

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This "flying" sailing ship photographed off Dubrovnik, Croatia, looks like the ghost ship Flying Dutchman. Why it looks like it's flying👇 earthlymission.com/mirage-pheno... 📷 thriol

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Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific is one of the most isolated settlements on Earth. It's home to about 50 people, mostly descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions, who settled there in the late 18th century. What it's like to live there👇 earthlymission.com/pitcairn-isl...

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Water buffalo covered with frog hitchhikers 🐃🐸🐸🐸 Scientists recently discovered that water buffaloes wallowing in wetlands in northern Turkey carry some unlikely passengers on their backs - tiny frogs. Here's why👇 earthlymission.com/scientists-d... 📷 Zduniak et al.

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More about the few pyramid capstones in existence👇 earthlymission.com/egyptian-pyr...

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Valley of Tears in the Andes, January 1973 vs. January 2023. The incredible story of this plane crash and the survival of 16 passengers👇 earthlymission.com/miracle-of-t...

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This is the world’s largest and probably oldest beehive complex 🐝🍯 Built in 1520 using wood, rock, and adobe, the Apiary of Inzerki in Morocco has thousands of traditional hives made of woven reed or tree bark. More about the largest/oldest beehive complex👇 earthlymission.com/worlds-large...

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The city of Ulm in Germany made thermally insulated pods for homeless people to sleep in. More about the pods, in which technology plays a crucial role👇 earthlymission.com/ulmer-nest-c...

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This is a single tree... It's the world's largest cashew tree and covers an area of about 8,000 square meters (86,111 square feet). More about this amazing tree👇 earthlymission.com/largest-cash...

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A giant sunflower. The tallest sunflower ever recorded stood over 30 feet (almost 10 meters) tall!👇 earthlymission.com/largest-bigg...

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What North America could look like today if Europeans had never discovered it. More about this amazing map and how it was made👇 earthlymission.com/if-europe-ne... Credit: liminalsoup

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Have you ever wondered how many ancestors you have? Well, wonder no more, because this infographic will show you the mind-blowing numbers of your great-great-great-great-great (etc.) grandparents. The numbers get really crazy👇 earthlymission.com/all-your-gra...

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This cheeky groundhog has a habit of stealing a farmer’s crop and eating it all in front of his security camera. Incredible footage of what this groundhog does to this poor farmer👇 earthlymission.com/cheeky-groun... 📷 Jeff Permar

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Ever wondered what the most famous 'Bigfoot footage' looks like AI stabilized and enhanced? Check out this updated view of the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film - it reveals much about who the footage actually shows. Watch the AI-stabilized footage👇 earthlymission.com/bigfoot-sasq...

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The "Symphony of the Stones" in Garni Gorge, Armenia. The basalt columns suspended against gravity resemble an organ, which explains why the natural monument is also called the "Basalt Organ". More images/info about the Symphony of the Stones👇 earthlymission.com/garni-gorge-... 📷 @globetolter[IG]

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The "Doomsday Vault", officially called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on Norway's remote Svalbard island, in case of any kind of disaster hits. Take a virtual tour inside👇 earthlymission.com/virtual-tour... 📷 Martyn Smith

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The world's oldest piece of women's clothing: the Tarkhan Dress. Found in an Egyptian tomb, the 5000-year-old dress demonstrates the complexity and wealth of the ancient society that produced it👇 earthlymission.com/worlds-oldes... 📷 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology, University College London

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Cave pearls in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, where a 'virgin pool' was recently discovered. More amazing cave pearls and how they form👇 earthlymission.com/cave-pearls-... Incredible 'virgin pool' discovered in Carlsbad Caverns👇 earthlymission.com/virgin-pool-...

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This 4,500-year-old Egyptian dress was painstakingly reassembled from approximately 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed tomb in Giza, Egypt. It's the only complete ancient Egyptian beadnet dress found to date. How the mystery of the dress was solved👇 earthlymission.com/4500-year-ol... 📷 MFA Boston

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🦈 This is the first time this phantom of the deep sea has been captured on camera! The extremely elusive abyssal ghost shark dwells at depths up to 8500 feet (2600 meters), so scientists have been unable to capture on camera - until now. Read on👇 earthlymission.com/ghost-shark-... 📷 NOAA

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This recently discovered waterfall in Peru looks like a bride dressed in a wedding gown and veil. More images/info about the Bride Waterfall👇 earthlymission.com/bride-waterf... 📷 El Alto Digital

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The side of Earth you never see. What it's like to live there👇 earthlymission.com/pitcairn-isl...

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The tree of Tule in Oaxaca, Mexico, has the largest trunk diameter in the world. It's circumference reaches almost 50 meters and has a height of 42 meters. It's approximately 2,000 years old. More images/info about this fascinating tree: earthlymission.com/el-arbol-del... 📷 Ernesto Murguia

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What Cheer to Jackpot such an Okay map, Sugar Tit. It' a real Spread Eagle of oddities. More about this map and where some of these names come from👇 earthlymission.com/weirdest-mos...

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A spring that flows from a living tree in Turkey. Incredible fountain tree in Montenegro👇 earthlymission.com/dinosa-mulbe...

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Shark hunters have discovered a new population of the coelacanth, a 420-million-year-old four-legged fish fossil that predates dinosaurs and was once thought to be extinct. More images/info about the four-legged fish fossil👇 earthlymission.com/coelacanth-s... 📷 Hans Fricke/Daniel Jolivet

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We’re beginning to understand bonobo speech in a new way, thanks to research on how they combine vocal sounds in the wild. Some of these call combinations actually follow patterns similar to human syntax👇 earthlymission.com/were-beginni...

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Found mostly in South America, the mata mata turtle's shell resembles bark, while its head resembles fallen leaves, making it an expert at camouflage. Also, it seems to be always smiling 🙂 More images/info about the amazing mata mata👇 earthlymission.com/mata-mata-od... 📷 Per Se / Joachim S. Müller

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Why is this bird bathing in ants? Because he might feel antsy. Yes, seriously, that might be one of the reasons for anting, a peculiar behavior involving birds taking ant baths. The other reasons are equally fascinating👇 earthlymission.com/anting-behav... 📷 Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart

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In 1963, some 2000-year-old seeds were discovered in an ancient pot in Israel. They were planted in 2005 and a tree that had been extinct for over 1800 years sprouted. What is more, the tree has now yielded fruit!👇 earthlymission.com/extinct-jude... 📷 Guy Eisner / Marcos Schonholz

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It took a long time... earthlymission.com/climate-chan...

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The western branch of the Devil’s Kettle waterfall in Minnesota plunges into a deep hole in the rock and disappears. No one knows for sure where the water goes after it enters the hole, but now the mystery may have been solved👇 earthlymission.com/devils-kettl... 📷 Chris857 / August Schwerdfeger

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Volcano eruption as seen from space. Caught on camera by astronauts on the ISS. More incredible-looking volcano eruptions photographed from space👇 earthlymission.com/volcano-erup...