Winnie the Pooh Cloud
During a children’s charity event in Dorset, England, the guests saw all of a sudden the cloud of Winnie that looked as if he were smiling and relaxing after a feast of honey.

Our planet always knows how to surprise its inhabitants: it displays fireworks, whirls out sparkling fishes, and builds huge mountains.

Bright Side collected 23 shots that prove nature has a very rich imagination.

Mud Storms

Mud Storms
Mud storms occur when lightning appears in a volcanic plume.

’’Magic Circles’’ in Namibia

’’Magic Circles’’ in Namibia
Investigators of this mysterious phenomenon suggest that it’s the ’’masterpiece’’ of desert termites.

The Giant’s Causeway

The Giant’s Causeway
This is a result of the eruption of an ancient volcano in Northern Ireland. It created a terrain that’s covered with 40 000 tightly contiguous basalt pillars.

Lenticular clouds

Lenticular clouds
These clouds in northern Georgia, USA are a rare natural phenomenon.

Catatumbo Lightning

Catatumbo Lightning
Lightning flashes appear over water 140-160 nights a year, for ten hours a night, and up to 280 times per hour.

Christmas Island Red Crabs

Christmas Island Red Crabs
Each year, about 43 million land crabs move in masses to the ocean to lay their eggs. Local authorities close most of the roads for a week so as to not interfere with the migration.

Great Blue Hole

Great Blue Hole
The gigantic underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize is more than 300 meters in diameter and 124 meters deep.

Undulatus Asperatus Clouds

Undulatus Asperatus Clouds
These clouds are called undulatus asperatus, or rough waves. This type of cloud, with a rather mysterious form, was recently included in the classification by the head of the Cloud Appreciation Society.

Lake Natron, Tanzania

Lake Natron, Tanzania
This saltwater lake, which is fed by hot springs, is the only place that looks exactly like a flamingo.

The Spotted Lake

The Spotted Lake
The Canadian Spotted Lake is the world’s greatest reserve of magnesium sulfate, calcium, and sodium.

The ’’Door to Hell’’, Turkmenistan

The ’’Door to Hell’’, Turkmenistan
This is a fire at a gas mine that broke out in 1971. It was due to the researchers’ negligence and still hasn’t ceased.

Spherical Boulders in New Zealand

Spherical Boulders in New Zealand
Due to the erosion of the shore’s argillaceous rocks, spherically-shaped boulders come out.

Flammable Ice Bubbles

Flammable Ice Bubbles
These are methane bubbles caught in an ice trap in Abraham Lake, Canada.‎

Frozen flowers

Frozen flowers
In the calm waters of lakes and seas, where the surface has just started freezing up (about −22°C), appear ice crystals of wondrous beauty.

Black Sun

Black Sun
Upwards of 50,000 starlings flock in the skies into huge twittering flocks. This phenomenon has also been called a ’’rumble.’’

Sailing stones of the Death Valley

Sailing stones of the Death Valley
In a deserted valley in the USA exists a unique geological phenomenon: fragments of rocks move along the smooth ground without any help, leaving long traces behind.

Underwater Crop Circles

Underwater Crop Circles
Off the coast of Japan, deft pufferfish males create perfectly aligned circles with chiseled edges. These works of art are designed to fascinate and attract females.

Migrating Monarch Butterflies

Migrating Monarch Butterflies
Covering thousands of kilometers, massive flocks of butterflies briskly move from Canada to the south of the United States.

The Blooming Desert

The Blooming Desert
In the years when Chile is more rainy than usual, the Atacama Desert is covered with flowers and herbs.

Mammatus Clouds

Mammatus Clouds
Such clouds are very rare; they mainly appear in tropical latitudes. They are bound with the formation of a tropical cyclone.

Bioluminescent waves on the beaches of the Maldives

Bioluminescent waves on the beaches of the Maldives
Some phytoplankton species are capable of luminescence.

Rainbow Eucalyptus

Rainbow Eucalyptus
This happens because eucalyptus peels in different sections. Each piece of the bark gradually gets blue, purple, orange, and then maroon.

Sardine Run

Sardine Run
From May to July, billions of sardines run to the North along the East coast of South Africa.

Winnie the Pooh Cloud

Winnie the Pooh Cloud
During a children’s charity event in Dorset, England, the guests saw all of a sudden the cloud of Winnie that looked as if he were smiling and relaxing after a feast of honey.