Nenets people of Yamal Peninsula, Siberia.

Slaughtered Hawksbill Sea Turtle, Turtle Beach, TOBAGO W.I.
Despite
best efforts by local conservation groups and community volunteers,
slaughtered sea turtles are still a common sight on many of Tobago’s
“Beautiful Beaches.”

300+ reindeer that were killed by one lightning strike in Norway.

Hoof capsule removed from a dead horse showing the laminar corium or sensitive laminae. The hoof capsule
forms
a casing on the ground surface of the limb that affords protection to
the soft tissue and osseous structures enclosed within the capsule.

Photo credit: Barbara Dixon

A
natural burial is the act of returning a body as naturally as possible
to the earth. To achieve this, it is recommend that the body not be
embalmed or cremated, but instead buried in a simple casket or shroud,
in a protected green space.

Could a zombie apocalypse happen in real life? It already (kind of) does in nature — and not just to ants.

A mysterious, four-mile long river, deep in the heart of the Amazon,
is so hot that it boils. The river has long been a
legend in Peru, but when geoscientist Andrés Ruzo’s heard about it, he
thought such a phenomenon was impossible. Runzo discovered a four mile
‘boiling river’ in the sacred geothermal healing site of the Asháninka
people in Mayantuyacu. At
its widest, it is 82ft(25m), and around 20ft (6m)
deep. The water is hot enough to brew tea, and in some parts, it boils
over. The river boils because of fault-fed hot springs. Parts of the
river are so hot that any animals that falls in boils instantly.

Photo credit: (top & bottom) Devlin Gandy, (middle left) Sofia Ruzo, (middle right) Andrés Ruzo

Female Shark in Seoul Aquarium Eats Male Shark Because He Kept Bumping Into Her

Another image of a green burial – or natural burial. (A
burial alternative that allows the body to be returned to the earth and
naturally recycled into new life without the use of toxic embalming
fluids, metal caskets and concrete vaults).

On the night of August 21st, 1986, approximately 1,746 people, as well as 3,500 animals suffocated over a radius of 25 kilometers around Lake Nyos, located in Cameroon. Most of them died in their sleep.

Lake Nyos, dubbed “The Deadliest Lake” by Guinness World Records in
2008, is one of the three ‘exploding lakes’ on this planet. Beneath its
beautiful surface, dangerously high concentrations of carbon dioxide
(CO2) seep into its waters from a pocket of volcanic magma deep below
the lake bed, changing it into carbonic acid.

On a day which later would be called “The Lake Nyos Disaster”,
something, possibly a landslide, triggered the release of approximately
100,000 – 300,000 tons of CO2. A thick cloud of toxic gas spread up to
15 miles from the lake, suffocating thousands of the people sleeping in
the nearby villages of Nyos, Kam, Cha and Subum.

The following excerpt is from a survivor’s report by Joseph Nkwain,
who described the situation when woke up after the cloud had passed:

“I could not speak. I became unconscious. I could not
open my mouth because then I smelled something terrible … I heard my
daughter snoring in a terrible way, very abnormal … When crossing to my
daughter’s bed … I collapsed and fell. […] … I was surprised to see that
my trousers were red, had some stains like honey. I saw some … starchy
mess on my body. My arms had some wounds … I didn’t really know how I
got these wounds …I opened the door … I wanted to speak, my breath would
not come out … My daughter was already dead … I went into my daughter’s
bed, thinking that she was still sleeping. I slept till it was 4:30
p.m. in the afternoon … on Friday. (Then) I managed to go over to my
neighbors’ houses. They were all dead … I decided to leave … . (because)
most of my family was in Wum … I got my motorcycle … A friend whose
father had died left with me (for) Wum … As I rode … through Nyos I
didn’t see any sign of any living thing.”