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Closing out Shark Week 2026 with a goblin shark under the stars enjoying a seafood molcajete.

Found this eastern box turtle in my older sister's backyard snacking on a wild pear fruit. Because I had my bulldog inside, I let it eat first before I relocated it to a surrounding forest away from roads.

Video taken from my trip to Ten Thousand Islands

These fish were seen just off the dock of my hotel

Based on several articles I've read about basking shark anatomy, I found the appearance of their skull to be rather eerie. It's fascinating to realize their cranium is small compared to their jaws and gill rakers. No wonder people mistook the rotting corpses of these animals for sea monsters.

Not gonna lie, I ALMOST DID NOT SEE this guy when I was walking back home. A foot long individual and just a few inches away from me at my neighborhood front gate. I stood guard when I saw someone walking his pitbull (I kept the dog from approaching any closer and warned its owner of the snake; I also saved the snake from sliding into the road or anyone's yard). I was thankfully able to find a long stick to drive it away from the front gate so it won't bite anyone or get run over by passing cars. Nobody was bit. This was also my second encounter with any venomous snake in the wild (first venomous species encounter in the wild was with a juvenile ring-neck snake, which is mildly venomous).

Last night was my first time eating dungeness crab and honestly, I give it a 10/10 star rating. Its lightly sweet taste to me is on par with snow crab.

I sometimes snack on these wild raspberries that grow near my local gym. Luckily, they haven't been sprayed with any pesticide. The blackberries are mature raspberries that have a pretty sweet flavor. The red immature berries taste more tart, sour and have a slight bitter aftertaste. The raspberry leaves make pretty good herbal tea as well, plus, getting around the thorny branches was a little tricky.

Hey folks. I found some boletes growing around a preschool just a 5 minute walking distance outside of my neighborhood. Any idea what bolete species these could be? I've read most boletes are edible, but have a rather bitter taste and to avoid poisonous bolete species known to have red, blue or purple colors.

I took these snapshots of some sharks at the Georgia Aquarium back in June 2017 when I was a volunteer. Pics 3 and 4 show their green sawfish.

Curiously, does anyone know what species of dung beetle this could be? I found it crawling on a sidewalk just a few steps away from my local physical therapy building.

I found all of these mushrooms in my neighborhood. I was wondering are these edible or toxic? I believe the one with the scaly stem (4th picture) is toxic and the flat tops are in the Agaricus family.

Hey folks. Can anyone please help me correctly identify these mushroom species I found? I think the one with the scaly stem (4th picture) might be toxic. I believe the first three pics could be field mushrooms in the Agaricus family.