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Thank you, Snoop Logg...

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This little octopus is a master of survival in one of Earth’s most extreme environments—the ocean’s twilight zone. 🐙🌊

The midwater octopus (Japetella diaphana) is one of the few octopuses that has adapted to life in open water, far from the safety of rocks and reefs. With a nearly transparent body and the ability to shift to a deep orange in the blink of an eye, Japetella uses camouflage to outsmart predators in the dark.

Drifting with the currents, the midwater octopus conserves energy with a slow metabolism.

A mother midwater octopus carries her eggs in her arms, venturing deep into the midnight zone to keep them safe from hungry predators.

But Japetella faces new threats like climate change and pollution. MBARI’s cutting-edge technology is helping uncover the hidden lives of deep-sea animals like Japetella and learning how they may survive in a changing ocean.

Learn more about this and other fascinating animals of the deep on our website.

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@onenicebugperday A big handsome fellow who watched me weed from the woodpile

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Jambu Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus jambu), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, Singapore

photograph by Tony Wong

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i saved a big grumpy bug at work today

someone very rudely called them a huge cockroach [not that theres anyrhing wrong with roachies] but im pretty sure theyre a palo verde beetle

Certainly could be! I'd need location to confirm, but it is a prionine longhorn beetle :)

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Stapelia gigantea & friends, The Huntington, CA

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The güiña, also known as the kodkod, is the smallest wild cat species native to the Americas.

It is a small, terrestrial predator found primarily in central and southern Chile, and also marginally in parts of Argentina.

The güiña is classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List due to threats like persecution, habitat loss, and prey base reduction.

credit: Samuel Chidiebere

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フジフサキバガ、Dichomeris oceanis、6月23日、豊田市

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A raccoon and her curious kit peer out of a hole in a tree trunk in Parc les Saules, Quebec City. Raccoons are highly adaptable and equally at home in urban and wilderness environments.

Photo: Maxime Légaré-Vézina

Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition

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Stropharia ambigua

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A moth in the desert

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Nevada bumble bee

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Bulbophyllum purpureorhachis

A tropical African orchid that bears it's tiny flowers on flat twisted inflorescence stalks

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Fire loving mushrooms

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could i possibly request some stellers sea eagle pics... they are such delightful creatures

Steller’s Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus), family Accipitridae, Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan

photograph by Michael Pinczolits 

photograph by James Gan

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

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“Yellow Bittern”

by Vo Rin, Vietnam

The 35 Photography Awards