Earth Girl

AKA Rock, Wildlife, Water, Forest, Sustainability Girl

[Nature Girl @Natureegir1]

Meet the striped pyjama squid (Sepioloidea lineolata)—a fascinating marine creature native to the coastal waters of southern Australia.

Despite its name, it isn’t a true squid at all, but a small cuttlefish known for its striking black-and-white striped “pyjama” pattern.

By day, it buries itself in the sand with only its eyes exposed, staying hidden from predators. At night, it emerges to hunt shrimp and other small prey.

If threatened, this tiny hunter can release a toxic slime, making it one of the ocean’s most surprising and unusual little predators.

[sunshine baby @sweetiddies]

how do i get people to care about the planet as much as they do this basketball game rn

[shy fawkes @butterbooter]

the pigeon doesn’t understand your disdain for it; it coos for you anyway. the tree does not know you own an axe for it; its leaves sway in the sun anyway. the starving cat eats the poison you put out. it doesn’t know how not to trust. the earth forgives you, in spite of yourself

[Cincinnati Zoo @CincinnatiZoo]

Sound on to hear a hippo conversation! Hippo snorts and grunts have been measured at 115 decibels, about the same volume as being 15 feet from speakers at a rock concert.

[Earth Girl @EarthMortal]

@openshutter21 oh yes

[Ken James @openshutter21]

I was literally praying this crow would stay still long enough for me to walk around her to get the composition of her between buttes in the brightest area and give her the most contrast.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

There are only 236 of them left on Earth. Every single one has a name.

The kākāpō is the world's heaviest parrot - a mossy green, owl-faced bird the size of a small dog that cannot fly, may live to 90 years, and only breeds every 2 to 4 years when New Zealand's rimu trees produce enough fruit to trigger the urge.

Rats. Cats. Stoats. Humans clearing forests. The kākāpō never evolved to outrun any of them.

By 1995, 51 birds remained. Scientists, rangers, and Ngāi Tahu - the Māori people who have always known this bird as taonga, a treasure—evacuated every last one to predator-free islands.

Each bird got a transmitter. Each nest watched around the clock.

This past February 14th, the first kākāpō chick in four years hatched. They named her Tīwhiri. By spring, 59 chicks had been born.

236 birds. Every name known. Every nest watched.

Who's counting down the days until the rimu trees fruit again? 🦜

#DemsUnited #Nature

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You've seen the meme: one opossum eats 5,000 ticks a season. Unfortunately, it's wrong.

When researchers dissected the stomachs of 32 wild opossums, they found zero ticks. The number came from a single lab study that got stretched into folklore, and it still gets repeated everywhere.

But the opossum doesn't need the lie. It's the only marsupial in North America. It cleans up carrion, rotting fruit, slugs, snails, and the rodents you'd rather not have around. It eats copperheads and rattlesnakes, because it's immune to their venom. And it almost never carries rabies, since its body runs too cool for the virus to take hold.

So when one waddles through the yard at night, you're not looking at a pest, you're looking at the cleanup crew that works for free.

[Earth @earthcurated]

First Wild Wolf in More Than 100 Years Enters Sequoia National Park.

A female gray wolf known as BEY03F has become the first documented wild wolf to enter Sequoia National Park in more than a century,

[Bella @natural77384672]

Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias). It is a tropical, wetland-dwelling bird native to Central and South America. Despite the name, it is not a true bittern but is the sole member of its own unique taxonomic family, Euryp ygidae. Defending with Illusions The stunning, multicolored patterns on its primary feathers resemble large, glaring eyespots or a setting sun. When threatened, it executes a "frontal display"—spreading its broad wings forward to mimic a much larger,

[Earth Girl @EarthMortal]

Orcas learn what is food from the matriarch of their pod :) Because their culture does not say that humans are a source of sustenance, they do not eat them!

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

One of the biggest mysteries to me is that orcas are the most efficient predators on Earth, yet they’ve never hunted humans in the wild. Maybe they know something we don’t

[Earth @earthcurated]

🪵Fun Fact: Wood is one of the rarest materials in the universe, known to exist only on Earth.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This is a water anole, a lizard capable of staying underwater by breathing from an air bubble trapped on its snout

[Anonymous @YourAnonOne]

Brazilian skydiving legend Luigi Cani scattered 100 million native seeds over a deforested stretch of the Amazon from 6,500 feet 🌳

[Cincinnati Zoo @CincinnatiZoo]

Today is National Black Bear Day! Orphaned sisters Juniper & Hazel are often seen playing & swimming! Seeing a black bear in the wild is an exciting & memorable experience. Learning appropriate safety techniques will minimize the possibility of conflict. https://t.co/LxFtS1LZzK

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

I've never seen another mammal mess with a Capybara. They're kind of the universally chill animals to hang around

[Earth Girl @EarthMortal]

195 lbs of trash out of the river today :)

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

The beautiful white-faced Ibis, with its colorful purple, crimson, teal, and gold feathers, is sure to brighten your day!

Photo by Leslie Scopes Anderson

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🍉🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

For anyone who has never met the Superb Lyrebird of Australia.

David Attenborough says it displays one of the most sophisticated voice skills within the animal kingdom—"the most elaborate, the most complex, and the most beautiful."

The chainsaw always brings tears to my eyes.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Photographer Christopher Paetkau captured a polar bear mother and her three cubs sleeping on muddy ground instead of Arctic ice, a heartbreaking image that was shortlisted for the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award.