Not everything in nature is as beautiful or as hilarious as we’re mostly used to. It has a dark side, too, and I’ll completely understand if this list by Bored Panda forces you to build a pillow-fort in your living room and avoid going outside for a week.
From a mama centipede protecting its babies to a wasp colony building a nest around a discarded doll, these pictures feature some of the scariest things Mother Earth has to offer. Scroll down to test how brave you are, and vote for your favorite entries.
#1 This Lava Pit Looks Like It’s Sucking The Souls Of The Damned Into Hell
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#2 Hermit Crab Using A Discarded Doll Head For A Shell
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#3 Wasps Build Nest Around A Discarded Child’s Doll
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#4 This Frog Was Found All Dried Up And Withered Outside The Store In The Morning. The Store Manager Said, “Let’s Try Splashing Some Water On It,” And Holy Sh*t It Came Back To F*cking Life
Image source: 9999monkeys
#5 An Abandoned Hornet’s Nest My Dad Found In His Shed That He Hadn’t Been In For A Couple Years. The Head Is Apart Of A Wooden Statue It Fused With
Image source: CountBubs
#6 Mama Centipede Protecting Her Babies
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#7 Somebody Responsible For The Lake Found The Fox (Which Drowned) In The Ice, Cut Him Out And Put Him Back On The Ice To Keep People Off The Ice
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#8 Cymothoa Exigua Is A Type Of Parasite That Enters Fish’s Gills, Eats Their Tongue, And Then Replaces It
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#9 Husks Of Dead Flowers In My Garden. Look Like Skulls/Plague Masks
Image source: TAHTPB
#10 Devil’s Fingers Fungus
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#11 Smiiiittttttthhhhhers
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#12 So Many Bees In The Wall That Their Honey Is Leaking Through An Outlet
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#13 Antarctic Worm Species Called Eulagisca Gigantean
Image source: Grim_Reaper_O7
#14 Snake Head Caterpillar
Image source: yongchiunhuei
#15 This Busy Owl Killed 70+ Lemmings And Surrounded His Nest With Their Fresh Corpses
Image source: Christine Blais-Soucy
#16 A Centipede That Was Devoured By A Viper, Ate Its Way Out
Image source: Xavier Bonnet
#17 This Tree In Nebraska Was Struck By Lightning And Burning Afterwards A Day Later
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#18 Lizard Growing Another Foot On It’s Tail?
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#19 Fireants Create A Floating Island Of Themselves To Ride Out The Houston Flooding
Image source: jumbodung
#20 Was About To Show My Kids That Cicada Shells Aren’t Gross And Scary When
Image source: Snarcasm101
#21 These Reticulated Pythons Self-Segregated Themselves Based On Color Just After Hatching
Image source: SkylerRaye
#22 Caribou (Rangifer Tarandus) Bull Showing Antlers That Are Shedding Velvet, North America
Image source: Mark Raycroft
#23 A Beehive Built Around Wind Chimes At My Friend’s House
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#24 The Sheepshead Fish Has Human-Like Teeth
#25 Wingless Fly Penicillidia That Attaches To Bats’ Heads And Never Leaves Its Body
Image source: Piotr Naskrecki
#26 This Gecko With Three Tails
Image source: Osshhhh
#27 Ant On My Porch Carrying The Head Of His Vanquished Enemy
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#28 A Landslide In Taiwan
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#29 The Battle
Image source: Jose Garcia
#30 My Mussel Contained A Tiny Half-Eaten Crab
Image source: jaredjeya
#31 My Cousin Caught A Lobster With Double Pinchers. Both Claws Work
Image source: aperull
#32 A Venus Fly Trap Getting A Huge Meal
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#33 Spiked Skeleton
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#34 Arachnids Aren’t Safe From Cordyceps Fungus Either
Image source: Hovie1
#35 Battle-Scarred Hippo
Image source: _waffleiron
#36 Lamprey’s Mouth
Image source: blickwinkel
#37 Millions Of Fire Ants Floating In Flooding From Harvey
Image source: TheScaryNature
#38 Lightning Struck This Fishing Rod
Image source: BubbleBoyB
#39 This Crab Claw Grew Another Smaller Claw
Image source: damn_u_scuba_steve
#40 Brave Patriot Bald Eagle Takes Down Wimpy Canadian Goose
Image source: frozen-silver
#41 Gecko Eats His Own Tail
Image source: HPLovecraft1890
#42 Fatal Blow
Image source: PaganelStudio
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