Governor Ann Richards releases a bald eagle along the Rio Grande near Lajitas, Texas in 1993. The eagle had been rehabilitated by Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists, and Ann was there to release the great bird of prey back to the sun-splashed wilds of the desert Southwest. “He looks like he’s ready to go, y’all, don’t he?” Ann said just before setting him free.
Photo taken by the Associated Press.
The Wolong area in the Giant Panda National Park on Friday released nearly three years of footage showcasing the world's only wild white giant #panda.
The white panda is seen roaming through snowfields, dense forests, and bamboo groves, occasionally pausing to forage or leisurely patrolling its territory.
Compared to when it was first discovered as a cub in 2019, the now mature white panda appears robust and agile, demonstrating excellent adaptability and survival status in the wild. #wildlife
This is the night sky on Mars—raw, unfiltered, untouched by a single streetlight.The atmosphere is so thin that every star slices through like a diamond on black glass. No haze, no glow, just infinite clarity.140 million miles from home, our little rover sits beneath a ceiling humanity has never truly seen: a universe stripped of Earth’s comforting blur.Close your eyes and stand there with it. Suddenly the cosmos stops feeling edited for our comfort. It feels brutally honest. And in that vastness, you feel perfectly, gloriously small.