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 Liked video 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 Hermit Crab Using A Discarded Doll Head For A Shell
#2 This Lava Pit Looks Like It’s Sucking The Souls Of The Damned Into Hell
#3 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
#4 Wasps Build Nest Around A Discarded Child’s Doll
#5 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
#6 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
#7 Mama Centipede Protecting Her Babies
#8 Cymothoa Exigua Is A Type Of Parasite That Enters Fish’s Gills, Eats Their Tongue, And Then Replaces It
#9 Husks Of Dead Flowers In My Garden. Look Like Skulls/Plague Masks
#10 Devil’s Fingers Fungus
#11 So Many Bees In The Wall That Their Honey Is Leaking Through An Outlet
#12 Smiiiittttttthhhhhers
#13 This Busy Owl Killed 70+ Lemmings And Surrounded His Nest With Their Fresh Corpses
#14 Snake Head Caterpillar
#15 Antarctic Worm Species Called Eulagisca Gigantean
#16 This Tree In Nebraska Was Struck By Lightning And Burning Afterwards A Day Later
#17 A Centipede That Was Devoured By A Viper, Ate Its Way Out
#18 Lizard Growing Another Foot On It’s Tail?
#19 Fireants Create A Floating Island Of Themselves To Ride Out The Houston Flooding
#20 These Reticulated Pythons Self-Segregated Themselves Based On Color Just After Hatching
#21 Was About To Show My Kids That Cicada Shells Aren’t Gross And Scary When
#22 Caribou (Rangifer Tarandus) Bull Showing Antlers That Are Shedding Velvet, North America
#23 A Beehive Built Around Wind Chimes At My Friend’s House
#24 This Gecko With Three Tails
#25 The Sheepshead Fish Has Human-Like Teeth
#26 Ant On My Porch Carrying The Head Of His Vanquished Enemy
#27 Wingless Fly Penicillidia That Attaches To Bats’ Heads And Never Leaves Its Body
#28 A Landslide In Taiwan
#29 My Mussel Contained A Tiny Half-Eaten Crab
#30 My Cousin Caught A Lobster With Double Pinchers. Both Claws Work