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Video by Bertie Gregory @bertiegregory | A harp seal pup takes its first swimming lesson in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec, Canada. This species has an extraordinary breeding cycle. Females give birth to pups on moving ice floes. They suckle the pup for just 10 to 14 days. During the last few days of this short period, they encourage the pup to get into the water to help them learn to swim (as seen in this video). After the swimming lessons, they abandon the pup. The females then mate with the males that have been waiting nearby, before heading north to their feeding grounds. The pups at two weeks old are left alone with nothing to eat. To see these awesome animals in action, check out my new online series "Wild_Life: The Big Freeze." Available on National Geographic YouTube and at natgeo.com/wildlife. Follow @bertiegregory for more on the series.

I had my mind blown this night with the best display of aurora I’ve ever seen. I travelled 2000 miles to stand on this beach and the universe definitely provided!! This is the view over the Vestrahorn in South East Iceland. What a night!![OC] 2950x2034 - Author: BenBushphoto on reddit

Meet David Latimer and his 58 year old bottle garden- We like David.

On Easter Sunday in 1960, David, using a ten gallon carboy, decided to make a bottle garden. He filled the vessel with compost, about 200ml of water and then delicately lowered in a spiderwort seedling (Tradescantia) using a piece of wire. He then placed the bottle near a window and let nature take over.

12 years later, David introduced another small amount of water, closed the container and it hasn’t been open since.

As you can see from the image, David’s bottle garden is thriving, but how has it flourished so much?

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River Bends Through 1,000-Foot Canyons

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photograph of the Green River flowing through deep, red rock canyons in eastern Utah. A main tributary of the Colorado River, the Green flows 730 miles (1,175 kilometers) through Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. The portion of the Green River in this image is just north of Canyonlands National Park.

Bowknot Bend was named for the way the river loops back on itself. Located in Labyrinth Canyon about 25 miles west of Moab, Utah, this river bend runs 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) in a circular loop and ends up 1,200 feet (360 meters) from where it first started. When the two sides of the river merge someday, Bowknot Bend will break off from the main channel and form a lake.

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This tiny octopus, whose body measured about five centimeters across, was spotted swimming along at a depth of 825 meters as we explored Whiting Seamount, off Puerto Rico.

Eva Green, photographed by Rebecca Miller for Jaguar, Oct 2018.