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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

SOME OF THE BEST NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PICTURES OF 2015 - They include a TERRIFYING PENGUIN, a woman swimming with jelly fish, aurora borealis, and luminescent plankton

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You thought they were all cute and adorable, until you saw this penguin:
Snack attack: A member of National Geographic's Your Shot community captured this photo with a GoPro on Antarctica's sea ice. 'I studied the movements of the penguins for weeks,' Berry writes. 'They walked in the same area almost every day. We would get maybe a dozen or less going by. The day this was taken there were over 60 penguins. It was a bit of luck involved too.'
Snack attack: Clinton Berry, a member of National Geographic's Your Shot community, captured this photo with a GoPro on Antarctica's sea ice, about six miles from Casey Station after studying the moments of the penguins for several weeks to find where they walked

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Wobbly shot: Jellyfish Lake on Eil Malk, one of the Rock Islands of Palau in the Western Pacific is home to rare golden jellyfish which are harmless to humans and spend much of their lives following the sun as it makes its daily progress across the sky
Wobbly shot: Jellyfish Lake on Eil Malk, one of the Rock Islands of Palau in the Western Pacific is home to rare golden jellyfish which are harmless to humans and spend much of their lives following the sun as it makes its daily progress across the sky
 
Rise and shine: Your Shot member Ernie Vater took this photo along along the frozen shores of Lake Superior at the Apostle Islands National Lake Shore near Bayfield Wisconsin. You can only reach the location by walking across a frozen Lake Superior, which does not happen often. Access was limited to only 9 days this past winter
Rise and shine: Your Shot member Ernie Vater took this photo along along the frozen shores of Lake Superior at the Apostle Islands National Lake Shore near Bayfield Wisconsin. You can only reach the location by walking across a frozen Lake Superior, which does not happen often. Access was limited to only 9 days this past winter

Moon dance: Aurora Borealis is seen chasing across the dark night sky on Iceland earlier this year
Moon dance: Aurora Borealis is seen chasing across the dark night sky on Iceland earlier this year

 Cracking up: Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia is the world's deepest and oldest, and was snapped by Alexey Trofimov
Cracking up: Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia is the world's deepest and oldest, and was snapped by Alexey Trofimov
Under the sea: Your Shot member Jeff Hester captured this incredible moment at Cabo Pulmo, a marine park off Mexico's Baja California peninsula, showing his wife swimming underneath a huge shoal of fish
Under the sea: Your Shot member Jeff Hester captured this incredible moment at Cabo Pulmo, a marine park off Mexico's Baja California peninsula, showing his wife swimming underneath a huge shoal of fish
 
Glow-rious: While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran, Your Shot member Pooyan Shadpoor came across the luminous scene in the photo, saying that the 'magical lights of [the] plankton ... enchanted me so that I snapped the shot'
Glow-rious: While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran, Your Shot member Pooyan Shadpoor came across the luminous scene in the photo, saying that the 'magical lights of [the] plankton ... enchanted me so that I snapped the shot'

Source
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3370645/Swimming-jellyfish-glowing-ocean-terrifying-photograph-penguin-taken-National-Geographic-release-pictures-2015.html


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