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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
#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
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
really scary cause the spider isn't dead, just paralyzed and will be slowly eaten alive by the wasp's babies
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Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
Yep. Lives in the Southwestern U.S. of A. Seen em in action.
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Elea Bell 5 years ago
What, the wasp? It's also New Mexico's state insect!
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I usually find insects and arachnids fascinating, but the level of "NOPE" in this photo far outweighs that.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
some hunstman live in colony up to 300, that is the most scariest thing. Imagine taking of some bark and then 300 of these crawls over you...a nightmare!
Keisha Washington 5 years ago
Is there a minute in any day that Australia isn't trying to make me burn down the house?
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
I hate the cold but if I came home to this my a*s would move to the arctic so damn fast
Shaun Coleman 5 years ago
Holy c**p! I am ever glad my parents chose Canada instead of Australia!
Robin Tapper 5 years ago
Why are those things even on the planet? God, you've got some explaining to do!
alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
F****n' Australia. Lures you in with the cute marsupials and then scares the begesus out of you with the creatures from your nightmares
Eulalie Grace 5 years ago
We were considering a trip to Australia. Got our passports and everything. Nope.
Lydia Forrest 5 years ago
What's scarier. The wasp or the fact that spider was in your house?!
XxInstantKarmaxX 5 years ago
it just got more horrific the spiders actually still alive it's just paralyzed. The wasp will lay its eggs in the spider's body so its babies have fresh meat as soon as they hatch
Christine Cameron-Dow 5 years ago
Er - I know huntsman spiders are massive, but just how big is that wasp?
WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
Huntsman spider. Tarantula wasp. Why not tarantula spider huntsman wasp? The things that pop into my head....
Kittie Lacker 5 years ago
Is it just me of does the first parts of the spider's legs look like human hands..?
Sancho Cruz 5 years ago
Not a shoe big enough to attempt.. even if successful the mess alone would be just as horrifying
Lydia Forrest 5 years ago
Is the wasp scarier than the fact that spider was living in your house?
Rachel Arteiro 5 years ago
(rest of the title) Then I turned right back and went back to work in order to buy a new house... someplace far
MaryEllen Molnar 5 years ago
Could be worse...those thousands of baby spiders it had could be running behind them wondering where Mom was going..😊
Johanna-Nicollette Kidd 5 years ago
Steroids are an animals vest friend, judging be the size of that
Lana Jig-maker 5 years ago
I'm leaving my house for the whole day at least. I know now, I'm just a visitor
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
"Just clearing out my garage. Nothing to see here. Good day neighbor."
Sarah Laurent 5 years ago
You got home from work and you saw... THIS ?!?!? OMG ! That's effing scary !
Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago
Eh, if that's a door hinge behind them, at least they're not goddamn giant
#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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