Back in the early days of the internet, much of the talk was about what a powerful learning tool it was. And, well, it definitely is a good learning tool, but just what you'll learn has gotten much more complicated.
We're just going to keep things simple and light here, as much as possible, however. Learning should be fun, and there's fascinating stuff all around us to learn from, that doesn't necessarily have all that internet baggage, too.
I count at least four distinct colors here, and that's just one of their eyes. Heterochromia can do some interesting things, apparently.
Sometimes you get gray and boring, sometimes you get a shiny hard-boiled egg. That's opals for you.
Which makes sense when you think about it — how often would they have to empty those things if they only held as much room as you can see?
This is just how wax figures get prepared for shipping. But it's certainly understandable to do a double-take.
It's a great help to them to be able to fade into the background to avoid predators, but they grow out of it when they mature.
The light bulbs in the fixture are primary colors: red, green, and blue. On the ceiling, the lights have mixed, creating the process colors for printing: cyan, magenta, and yellow.
It's called an armillary sphere ring, a navigational tool you could wear on your finger. The craziest part is that these were popular up to 500 years ago.
The exterior is covered in mirrors, making it pretty much the ultimate way to escape into nature.
Some homeowners in Ohio were treated to this odd phenomenon when too much sodium permanganate was dumped into the water at a water treatment plant.
Just imagine having to fight with Titanoboa here, the prehistoric snake believed to weigh up to 2,500 pounds, for a morsel of food.
It really gives you an appreciation of the size of a woolly mammoth when you see someone holding one of their molars in their hand.
Trachyandra tortilis, which is native to South Africa, just grows all wavy and curly like this.
But that hasn't held this little bonsai apple tree back — it went ahead and grew a full-size apple anyway.
Of course, this is Texas in 2019, and it was followed by rain, which must have made plenty of mud.
I mean, they're definitely to be respected as apex predators, but they're clearly not on the same level of intelligence as dolphins.
It has to be rare to see such a perfectly formed fog dome, and it likely wouldn't last very long, either.
The Mangalica or Mangalista pig comes from Hungary, and it grows a coat much like a sheep does.
That must have been all kinds of time-consuming before this device came along.
The trees are common in parts of Brazil where the grape-like fruit is enjoyed fresh from the trees. Since they have a short shelf-life after harvesting, it's common to make the fruit into jams or other preserves.
They're close cousins to the kangaroos we 're familiar with, but are smaller and live in the forests of Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Sadly, they are very endangered due to loss of habitat.
This is actually pretty brilliant. Imagine all that plastic waste inside having been strewn around the sand instead.
Because otherwise there's no way anything would be dumb enough to swim close to one. I'll admit, I'd also pictured them as much smaller.
He's on "shark duty" while the rest of his crew mates on the USS Marshal get to enjoy the water.
Except that it's gravel and pebbles on the surface of Mars.
This pic was taken in Port Rexton, Newfoundland and if the scale compared to the buildings down't surprise you, imagine how much is hidden under the water behind them.
It sure does look like a portal has opened up, doesn't it? Experts say it's just asperitas clouds, which are actually a fairly recent addition to cloud lore, only having been officially recognized by the World Meteorological Organization in 2015.
It's only possible in February, and the weather and amount of snow melt affects it. Some years, the conditions are never perfect, but when they are, it's spectacular.
It's a near-perfect sphere made of entirely smooth, flat rocks. Imagine the amount of work it took to put together!
It's so well preserved, in fact, that even the muscles and internal organs are intact.
