you literally captured whats called “ball lightning” which is the rarest form of lighting
its so rare that we dont even know how it forms other than by heat, static electricity, and humidity
lightning is stored in the balls
Is this really ball lightning?!!?!? I’ve always wanted to see it, I feel like I just saw a real unicorn omg omg this is amazing
Yes. It is “bal lightning” and for preference, the purple ones are stunning.
my nana saw one twice, in the 70s, before they were acknowledged to exist, and the story was told in my family like you would tell about your uncle seeing bigfoot. I’m glad she lived to see them “proven.”
Brie got to see one too! My family is cool, but I’m LEFT OUT.
Today the Department of Awesome Camouflage is wondering if there’s any creature more impressive than the Lichen Katydid(Markia hystrix), an insect that looks like it’s actually made out of delicate lichen. It looks more like something out of a fairytale than a real-life insect, but that’s simply because the natural world is so freaking awesome!
Lichen Katydids are native to Central and South America. Wildlife photographer David Weller captured this mesmerizing footage of a Lichen Katydid somewhere in the Cartago Province of Costa Rica carefully making its way across some vegetation that looks like it might’ve grown from its own body :
baby fish hiding under the bell of a jellyfish and using its stinging threads as protection from circling predators. this “floating safe house” will provide the fish with protection and food until they’re big enough to venture out on their own. (source)
Those “leaves” around it in the third gif are fish as well! Cornetfish (not a typo, not cometfish) imitate strips of seaweed in order to avoid predators.
There aren’t any stinging cells up under the jellyfish’s bell, so they hide under there, which keeps predators from spotting and eating them. I mostly see what look like baby jacks, plus a couple of filefish in that second gif.
A+ content important I would also suggest soft goth things such as
blackbird euphorbia (maybe tender here maybe niagara goths can have u)
black negligee bugbane
chocoholic bugbane (tbh all bugbane is prolific and spoopy and wonderful)
hellebore black swan maybe also tender?
black truffle cardinal flower
the ever fave heuchera obsidian
britt marie crawford ligularia FAVE JURASSIC LOOKING BB
and obv purple smokebush for soft goth smoke monster vibes
thank the dark goddess for you! Saving this post!
Black pearl pepper is another good one, I can attest that they look really cool in person. Aside from being ornamental, the little peppers are edible, and I think decently hot? I haven’t tasted them though so idk about that part
Black Pearl plants are EXTREMELY drought hardy and the peppers taste great, yes! I love mine even though I’ve given it less than stellar care; I’ve had it for…almost 10 years I think!
These pictures are so cute and so is the article.
Black Mondo grass also.
Also this is a tropical moat places but bat flower/ Tacca chantieri
Bat flower
OMG I’ve wanted a black garden since my gothy little 13 year old Heart thought of it! One dayyy!!!
Fun fact: snakes belong to the lizard family (Squamata), and evolved from what can be scientifically called lizards. So by all means, they are legless lizards – one of many lizard groups that lost their legs, in fact.
Tuataras on the other hand may look a lot like lizards, but they’re not. They’re Rhynchocephalians, an ancient group of reptiles that appeared even before lizards evolved and experienced great diversity, but now are represented only by the two species of tuatara surviving in New Zealand.
Kangaroos are animals that seem like they should be cryptids but it’s an entire species.
A kangaroo standing straight up is so deeply unsettling. It’s like you’re a furry who wished for anthropomorphic animals to be real and then it happened and you’re like NO DO NOT LIKE.
Kangaroos are dumb cause females only breed with the ones with the most muscles/testosterone so the entire species is roid raging itself to extinction
Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs.
So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly – not spazz themselves into miscarrying.
So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs!
The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS
this post just got so much better
THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST
aNOTHER FUN FACT: in nature, jackals will fill the roll of the service dogs. they protect the cheetahs by yipping when predators approach such as hyenas or lions. it’s a symbiosis of sorts. in return, the cheetahs will leave like half of what they kill for the jackals since they’re so light weight and can’t eat very much all at once.
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