1. Caribou Huddle
Humans are not the only creatures bothered by mosquitoes and flies. They harass caribou so much that earlier this month, about 300,000 of the animals huddled closely together in Northwest Alaska to avoid being bitten and parasitized.
To avoid the flying pests, caribou move inland and into higher elevations where there are fewer winged menaces. This forces them closer together in groups called aggregations, which reduces each individual's exposure in terms of relative numbers of bugs and body area open to harassment.
2. Birth of Gigantic Iceberg
A process more than a decade in the making reached its climactic moment this week, when a giant iceberg finally broke away from the floating end of a Greenland glacier - and a passing satellite captured the drama on camera.
3. Storm Socks New York
Former NFL player Dhani Jones posted this photo of a ghostly column of rain over Queens, New York.
Meteorologist George Wright said it looks like a rain shaft, a term meteorologists use to refer to a heavy downpour coming from a single thunderstorm.
4. Shimmering Aurora
The handful of wintertime residents at an isolated Antarctica research station recently got a break from austral winter's 24-hour darkness when a shimmering aurora blazed to life over their lonely outpost in the middle of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
5. Aquarium Sees First Fur Seal Pup Birth
Ursula, a 14-year-old Northern fur seal, gave birth to a healthy seal pup at the New England Aquarium in Boston [USA].
Top image: Caribou Huddle (left) and Birth of Gigantic Iceberg, taken 1 1/2 hours image #2 above (right).
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