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Photographed: 2008-07-28
Original title: The tree's eyes (2710810851).jpg
Two knots and a split in the bark can become a face before you have time to decide what you are looking at. The strange part is how much of your brain believes the first impression.
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Photographed: 2006-08-05
Original title: Foxfire: bioluminescent fungi on rotting tree bark
Some fungi can turn decaying wood into a source of light. The chemistry is real, but the reason for the glow is a more complicated mystery.
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Photographed: 2025-09-09
Original title: Chlorophyllum molybdites-fairy ring.jpg
A circle of mushrooms looks arranged, almost deliberate. Under the grass, a slow-moving organism has been drawing the pattern for far longer than the mushrooms have been visible.
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Photographed: 2026-07-05
Original title: American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis) Banff.jpg
Researchers changed their clothes, their walk and even the person wearing the mask. The crows still knew which face meant trouble.
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