Link of the day- Greg du Toit photographs lions, bustards, waterbuck and zebras

Link of the day today is this article and its gallery of 11 stunning photographs of watering-hole wildlife-

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2870439/Snapper-lies-in-wait-for-animals.html

The photographer is South African wildlife photographer Greg du Toit, who spent 3 months submerged in a watering hole to catch photographs of lioneeses drinking, managing to catch malaria, bilharzia and a number of other horrible diseases and parasties in the process...

Image of the day- the natural world down a microscope

Links to two image-series today- both courtessy of The Sun newspaper. The first is a beautiful series of images of living organisms and natural phenomena (baby starfish, soap bubles, snail eggs, a fly larva and several others). You can find the article here-

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2819061/Pictures-from-under-the-microscope.html

most of the images are in a gallery linked from that article.

The second image series is an article and a further succession of 6 images of planet Mars-

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2807544/Pictures-of-Mars-reveal-astonishing-beauty.html

Image of the day- Nature "red in tooth and claw"

Hello. Welcome to Weirdbeautiful. Today's image is a striking photo of tigers feeding in Northern China-

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2810635/Big-cats-look-roar-ly-hungry.html