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40 Times Mother Nature Proved To Be Scary As Hell (WARNING: This List Might Be Too Scary For You)
Sun is shining, birds are chirping, and the living is easy. We’d like to think of nature this way. But it moves in mysterious ways and it’s called Mother Nature for a reason.
You see, upon a closer look, things are hella odd and creepy out there. Think of it as a horror movie of its own league starring sci-fi-like creatures, unusual anomalies, bizarre plants and animals, and sightings that push you to the brink of saying "I’m out."
Bored Panda has compiled a spine-chilling fresh list for your next nightmare. Get ready for sweaty palms and don’t say I didn’t warn you. Before you are done and safely out of this whole ordeal, there’s part 1, part 2, and part 3 waiting one click away. No NOPEs allowed after this point.
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#1
I Watched This Guy Fight Off A Bird 10 Times His Size. This Was His Victory Pose For A Good 10+ Minutes As The Bird Perched On A Power Line, Defeated
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#2
Whales Sleeping
#3
Bald Eagle Size vs. Grey Wolf, Caught On Trail Cam
Our planet is populated with both odd and amusing plants and animals. Some of them have been surrounded by myth and misunderstanding, and some we still know little about. David Attenborough’s series “Natural Curiosities” has revealed the remarkable evolutionary traits behind some of the most mystical wonders of the natural world.
Some of the quirky animals include flamingos, who survive in hot volcanic lakes by filtering out microscopic algae; salamanders that can regrow entire limbs; problem-solving crows that design intricate tools; and hippos, who secrete a vivid red mucus that acts as sunscreen.
#4
Bees Killing A Murder Hornet By Raising Their Temperature In Order To Cook It Alive
Christophe Beunens 5 years ago
This is a bit like Murder on the Orient Express : The whole family is guilty
#5
Your Chances Of Getting Killed By A Group Of Frogs Are Low But Never Zero
#6
I Heard Some Noise On The Roof This Morning
In an interview with Radio Times, David Attenborough recounted the particularly peculiar case of a greenfly that’s nearly all female. “Inside they are already pregnant. And inside the baby that’s inside the mother there’s another one. So you’ve got three generations all in one animal.” As bizarre as it sounds, that’s a very common insect we don’t really think of much.
#7
Then There Was This Guy
#8
I Think I Found The Entrance To The Spider-Verse
#9
I Noticed Some Shrimp Missing...
#10
What, Exactly, Was The Sequence Of Events That LED To This?
#11
Here’s A Possum Yelling At A Bald Eagle
#12
I Was In The Middle Of A Zoom When I Noticed This
#13
Nature Is Scary As Hell
The Sandbox Tree also known as the "Dynamite Tree" grows exploding fruits. When fully mature, they explode with a loud bang and fling their hard, flattened seeds at speeds of up to 150 miles per hour and distances of over 60 feet. The shrapnel can seriously injure any person or animal in its path. As bad as this is, the exploding seed pods are only one of the ways that a sandbox tree can inflict harm.
The fruit of the sandbox tree is poisonous, causing vomiting, diarrhea and cramps if ingested. The tree sap is said to cause an angry red rash, and it can blind you if it gets in your eyes. It has been used to make poison darts.
I Liek To Cute 5 years ago
Wow. The person who said nature is beautiful has CLEARLY never seen this tree!
#14
The Harpy Eagle's Huge Talons Can Be As Large As A Bear's Claws, And Its Legs Can Be Almost As Thick As A Man's Wrist
Margaret Wells 5 years ago
Seeing pics like this makes me wonder why we didn't realise birds evolved from dinosaurs years ago
#15
My Mom Found This Skull With A Chrysalis Inside The Eye Socket
#16
This Ice Looks Like An Eye
#17
Tick Season Is Here, Make Sure To Check Every Spot
#18
Sphynx Cat With No Eyes
djinnjeannie 5 years ago
I leapt back from the screen in horror. Not much makes em do that. I’m sure it’s a lovely enough cat but it’s nightmare inducing.
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Missy Moo Moo 5 years ago
I've got a sphynx, lovely kitten. Yes this cat looks scary, but the poor thing! Deserves even more love xxx
Michelle Muirhead 5 years ago
Poor soul, It looks like inbreeding at its worst. This should not be allowed.
Bobbie Wilson 5 years ago
This is what people do with these fancy breeds..You dont see what always comes out, breeders dont want you to know.
Candice Ravel 5 years ago
Some cats can have a genetic condition where their eyelashes essentially grow on the inside and can cause a lot of pain and eventual blindness. Removing their eyes, while tough to look at, is actually pain free once healed after surgery. Can't remember if it's called entropion or something else. Can happen in certain dog breeds as well.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Lovely. F**k the breed up until they get a horrible painful affliction, then blind them and call that a good solution. People are f*****g monsters.
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Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
Sphynx cats are often born with genetic defects, but this is horrible and tragic beyond words. This poor little angel is probably the result of irresponsible, ignorant breeding.
glowworm2 5 years ago
Actually, this kitty was born with both eyes and developed FHV. One of the symptoms of FHV is eye ulcers. The only option was to remove his eyes. First one in 2014 and then the other in 2018.
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Patrick Vincent 5 years ago
Yeesh...Event Horizon, great film, very disturbing....
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Poor plucked chicken kitty! Betcha they’re a real loving and cuddly cat too.
Leslie Cully 5 years ago
Poor baby! To remove that much tissue, he must've had a terrible infection. I had a one-eyed Sphynx cat, and the side of her face with no eye was just smooth.
Shinomi Chan 4 years ago
Seen this before. Poor baby. Would flinch if I saw this coming at me at night tho xD
Anthony Torres 4 years ago
Is it blind, or just has no eyes and they just cut the eyes out, that would be pretty vicious tho
Kat Khatib 5 years ago
Aaaawwww. Poor kitty. Definitely something ya don't or won't see every day.
Tina Stalcup 5 years ago
This is a first I've ever seen! Perhaps it was born without eyes? Terrifying but amazing at the same time.
Patricia Brown 5 years ago
poor creature. I don't understand why people breed for defects that weaken the animal.
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 5 years ago
He wasn't born like this. This is not caused by breeding. The cat had FHV
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Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 5 years ago
No, he wasn't. He had FHV which caused this.
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AnnieLaurie Burke 5 years ago
Aww, a poor little blind kitty! He would be fun to have tucked under your arm for Halloween.
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
Poor cat but it looks like something that would guard a gate in hell.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Really? I think those poor kitties are darn ugly even with eyes.
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Slune 5 years ago
Ban this inhuman breeding! Hitler used to experiment with humans with similar results!
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 5 years ago
This wasn't because of breeding. He had FHV.
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Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 5 years ago
He wasn't born this way. He had FHV.
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Unusual outcome of enucleation- I've never seen it done with the socket like that
pebs 5 years ago
Maybe the poor animal is born like this. No sign of intervention. They should avoid these bad genetics experiments that result in unfairly suffering animals. Just because some decerebrate can say "How cute".
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nickymiST.elliefreak 5 years ago
Fake Fake Fake Fake, sorry, gotta say its fake. If it had no eyes, they would not look like that. And I know that bc my friends dog lost an eye.
Tessa Thompson 5 years ago
*Any* cat with empty eyesockets like that is going to look freaky as hell. WHY didn't the vet sew the cat's lids shut?
pebs 5 years ago
To me it looks like the poor inbreeded animal is born without eyes. You don't see any trace of an intervention.
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Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
christ this is disturbing. what series of events led to this?
Cupcake168 5 years ago (edited)
Poor creature! This breed is animal cruelty, anyway. But this makes me really sad.
Wreathy 5 years ago
aAll cats are wrinkled under their skin. Some just as not as much as the sphinx breed, but nevertheless they're wrinkly. How do you think Mama cats pick up their kittens by the neck? :)
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#19
Cabbage Field In Japan
#20
If I Saw This In My Bathroom Corner, I’d Burn My House Down
#21
My Friend Traveled To India. She Posted A Photo This Morning With The Caption "It's Going Well"
#23
This... Bothers Me In So Many Levels
#24
The Scaly-Foot Snail Ingests The Toxic Magma-Fumes Of Hydrothermal Vents And Grows A Coat Of Organic Iron Plates
#25
Dried Frog And The Spider
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
This would be awesome for that girl's "Dead stuff collection" a few articles over!
#26
A Rare Mutation Causing The Tentacles On The Octopus To Branch
#27
Duet
#29
A Storm Literally Picked Up And Moved This Road
SilverLining 5 years ago
This happened in the lake District UK. Just purely from the force of the water
#30
Deep Sea Worms Viewed Under Electron Microscope
#31
The Door I Had To Get Through Last Night To Get To My Room
#32
Teeth In A Squid Suction Cup
#33
10,000 Year Old Skull Of An Extinct Giant Irish Elk Found By This Farmer
Joseph O'Reilly 5 years ago
yall why is everybody saying that the Earth is 5,000 years old? It's waaaaaaaaay older than that, and basing its age off of a calendar based in religion is quite likely to not be scientifically accurate. Please, for the love of all that is correct, stop saying the Earth is younger than we can soundly prove it is
#34
Ants Squirting Acid At An Enemy
#35
Got Home From Work To Find This Tarantula Hawk Wasp Carting Off A Huntsman Spider
#36
Lacarria Masoniae Growing From An Opossum's Carcass
#37
The Amount Of Growing My Snail Has Gotten Done In Under A Year. From A 4cm Shell To A 17cm Shell
#38
A Human Foot After A Baby Diamondback Snake Bites It
Thomas Es Thomas 5 years ago
Oh you'll lose that toe. I always wonder when I'm at the shoe store and I find a box with two shoe sizes, one smaller than the other. Then I see people like this.
#39
This Snake That Has Both Eyes In One Socket
#40
Honey Combs In Spare Unit Of My House. This Is The 5th Time The Bees Are Back. Two Separate Colonies One On Either Side Of This Unit. Both Are Inside The Wall
#41
Tarantula Infected With Cordycipitaceae
#42
Wolf Eel Head Found In Tide Pool
#43
The Wood Pattern Of This Burned Tree Looks A Lot Like Spaghetti
#44
The Face In The Moth
#45
Skeleton Of A 28ft Anaconda
#46
It Hailed Last Night
#47
This Wasp Wearing 3 Dead Wasps As A Hat
#48
This Snail With A Wasp Nest On It
#49
This Guy Found A Centipede On His Zipper
Christophe Beunens 5 years ago
It was trying to mate with the zipper - same color, same nr of feet. Perfect match
#50
Snake In A Vehicle
#51
Hooves Of A Newborn Horse
#52
Little Tick Parasites Big Tick
#53
Just Another Day Down Under. My Mum's Partner Found This Brown Snake Under His Toilet Lid
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
That was lucky he saw it before he got bitten. Very venomous snake there.
#54
This Is One Of The Largest And Potentially Heaviest Frogs (Up To 3 Kg In Very Large Individuals)
They are noted to be particularly aggressive. They are threatened by capture for human consumption, habitat loss, pollution, introduced species and the frog killing fungus that's currently going around the world.
#55
Preserved Intestinal Worms
#56
GF Found That Fungus Infected (Dead) Spider In Our Shed
#57
Coyote Munch’n On A Squirrel
#58
That's A Hard Pass For Me
#59
Fish I Found In The Amazon River
Your Mother 5 years ago
It's blinky from the simpsons, but with four eyes! Was this by a nuclear power plant?
#60
A Ball Of Mud I Stepped Full Of Surprises
#61
Went Fishing And Caught This
#62
Almost Tripped Over This Large Eel That Choked On A Fish, Died And Then Washed Ashore In Mexico
#63
Borrowed My Neighbor’s Truck He Never Drives To Haul Some Stuff. Wanted To Be Nice And Bring It Back Filled Up Since It Was Almost Empty When I Got It
engineer_nope.avi 5 years ago
"Hey Dave, I got your car pumped up plus some honey to go with it."
#65
I Caught A Turtle That Desperately Needs A Pedicure
#66
I Got A Little Bit Stuck In My Teeth
#67
What I Find In My Toilet Bowl After A Week Long Vacation
#68
Whelp, Found Out What That Scratching Noise Behind The Wall Was
#69
Dead Parasite Emerging From A Cockroach Found In A Customers "Clean Clothes" Pile
#70
A Close Up Look At An Elephants Tail
#71
Got The Smoker Out Of Storage
#72
This Is The Skull Of An Elephant. Previously The Cavity In The Skull Was Mistaken As A Eyehole And Thus The Elephant Skull Became The Basis Of The Myth Of The Legendary Creature, Cyclops
#73
This Unlucky Fly That Impaled Itself On My Cactus
#74
Weird Squirming Living Lovecraftian Nightmare On Our Lawn Chair This Morning
#75
A Dried Stingray
#76
Pug's Skull
Christophe Beunens 5 years ago
Unfortunately, this is not mother Nature at work, but a human creation, by breeding. These animals suffer, because we associate their big eyes as "beautiful"
#77
Might Be A Good Idea To Try The Next Stall
Terje Nygård 5 years ago
Give it a nice little spin :) Pull the toiletpaper as hard as you can !
#78
Looks Like A Centipede, But Very Strange
Toujin C'Thlu 5 years ago
It's a house centipede. They're freaky-looking, but actually good to have around, since they prey on other household pests like silverfish.
#79
There’s A Very Well Camouflaged Copperhead Snake In This Pic
#80
Sceloporus Occidentalis (Western Fence Lizard) And Those Look Like Dessicated Eggs
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Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
I wish more of these had explanations. Some of them were completely confusing.
Curry on... 5 years ago
Nature is beautiful most of the time, ugly some of the time, and definitely deadly a lot of the time.
Cupcake168 5 years ago
I'm living in Germany, and very often I feel like it's quite boring here. But sometimes I'm just grateful for all we have and for all we have not, as well.
Nancy Massi 5 years ago
I made this mistake of looking at this at 2:30 in the morning. I still can't sleep.
Baby Panda 5 years ago
That was super interesting but also scary as fck. Anyway thanks for the warning in the caption. That saved me, as I scrolled down in slow motion and held my breath for every new pic.
Chris Watson 5 years ago
Surprised at finding so many interesting things. This has given me some energy to learn more about these awesome creatures and plants. Thank you BP.
Lisbeth Guz 5 years ago
Nightmare inducing but really interesting. Thanks to those that provided explanations
CbusResident 5 years ago
But 'mother nature' or 'gaia' 'loves us'! Or, this planet is clearly 'designed for us'! - This didn't even get into what some tropical parasites will do to humans. You know what else 'mother nature' or 'gaia' or some supposed deity 'designed' for us? The Coronavirus, AIDS, anthrax, Ebola, e.coli - many other horrible things.
Sterrinatu 5 years ago
I love and hate these. I have a serious fear of spiders so I know there are usually some terrifying spider ones. But the rest are so fascinating!
Ana Vaquer Perez 4 years ago
I made it through all of them. I’m proud of myself! But I will NOT be sleeping, eating, brushing my tears or hair, or any activity where I might encounter this for a while..
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Nature is wonderful, in many ways, we have so much beauty, be thankful for , and beware of a great many also !!!
Julie Hanford 5 years ago (edited)
maybe its just cause i want to be a marine biologist, but most of these were not "Scary As Hell," just 2% scary & 98% COOL! baby spiders are freaky though when theres that many
beth arledge 5 years ago
This story almost made me vomit for real. How do I get it off my page?
Charlotte A. 5 years ago
I think very few of these qualify as "scary". Cool and fascinating, mostly. (But spiders... spiders always scary. Except when cute. Like Lucas.)
Ilir Ajdini 5 years ago
Remove this from your site! Don't you ever show, nowhere, that disgusting picture of that dog's mouth! As well as some other terrible things 🤮
Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
I wish more of these had explanations. Some of them were completely confusing.
Curry on... 5 years ago
Nature is beautiful most of the time, ugly some of the time, and definitely deadly a lot of the time.
Cupcake168 5 years ago
I'm living in Germany, and very often I feel like it's quite boring here. But sometimes I'm just grateful for all we have and for all we have not, as well.
Nancy Massi 5 years ago
I made this mistake of looking at this at 2:30 in the morning. I still can't sleep.
Baby Panda 5 years ago
That was super interesting but also scary as fck. Anyway thanks for the warning in the caption. That saved me, as I scrolled down in slow motion and held my breath for every new pic.
Chris Watson 5 years ago
Surprised at finding so many interesting things. This has given me some energy to learn more about these awesome creatures and plants. Thank you BP.
Lisbeth Guz 5 years ago
Nightmare inducing but really interesting. Thanks to those that provided explanations
CbusResident 5 years ago
But 'mother nature' or 'gaia' 'loves us'! Or, this planet is clearly 'designed for us'! - This didn't even get into what some tropical parasites will do to humans. You know what else 'mother nature' or 'gaia' or some supposed deity 'designed' for us? The Coronavirus, AIDS, anthrax, Ebola, e.coli - many other horrible things.
Sterrinatu 5 years ago
I love and hate these. I have a serious fear of spiders so I know there are usually some terrifying spider ones. But the rest are so fascinating!
Ana Vaquer Perez 4 years ago
I made it through all of them. I’m proud of myself! But I will NOT be sleeping, eating, brushing my tears or hair, or any activity where I might encounter this for a while..
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Nature is wonderful, in many ways, we have so much beauty, be thankful for , and beware of a great many also !!!
Julie Hanford 5 years ago (edited)
maybe its just cause i want to be a marine biologist, but most of these were not "Scary As Hell," just 2% scary & 98% COOL! baby spiders are freaky though when theres that many
beth arledge 5 years ago
This story almost made me vomit for real. How do I get it off my page?
Charlotte A. 5 years ago
I think very few of these qualify as "scary". Cool and fascinating, mostly. (But spiders... spiders always scary. Except when cute. Like Lucas.)
Ilir Ajdini 5 years ago
Remove this from your site! Don't you ever show, nowhere, that disgusting picture of that dog's mouth! As well as some other terrible things 🤮
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