Black and white lamb Battenberg, a four-week-old Texel cross lamb, would not have been found among the snow if it weren’t for his unusual markings

Black and white lamb Battenberg.
Battenberg is four week-old lamb whose black and white markings saved his life. The Texel cross lamb was born on a Welsh farm during heavy snow. Farmer Richard Griffiths only spotted the lamb because of his striped face. A lamb’s unusual markings saved his life – because his half-black face helped a Welsh farmer spot him in his snow-covered fields. The two-faced lamb was named Battenberg by the farmer’s young sons, who say his stripey face reminds them of the cake. His front right leg and back left legs are black – while the other two are white.
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Fabulous Pink lake Hillier

Pink lake Hillier
Mysterious, surrounded by many legends, Lake Hillier stretched serenely and majestically on the Australian coast. A miracle lake on the Middle Island, is a part of the archipelago, and consists of hundreds of small islands. They stretch for miles along the southern coast of Australia. The entire island Hillier is a unique conservation area. The width of the lake is just 600 meters away and it has brilliant pink color of surface. Thanks to the Lake Hillier, wooded median island gets a lot of unusual colors. Pink water surrounded on all sides by bright green gum trees, separated from the blue hue of the ocean only by white sand strip.
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Mysterious crater was discovered in 1951 by geologist Vladimir Kolpakov. Patomskiy crater

Patomskiy crater
Located in Irkutsk region of southeastern Siberia, the crater is a cone-shaped hill, consisting of crushed limestone. The diameter of it up to 180 m and a height of 40 meters at the top – whether the meteor crater, or volcanic origin. The locals call it “Fire Eagle’s Nest.” Noteworthy, it was geologist Vladimir Kolpakov, who discovered the Mysterious crater in 1951. To date, it is still one of the most mysterious objects in the natural world. In size and appearance it looks like a lunar crater. According to studies of Siberian scientists, the crater formed during the 300-350 years since the end of the beginning of the 15th or 16th centuries. Several scientific expeditions have been sent to the crater, but the nature of its origin remains a mystery.
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The Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. Ladybower Reservoir Portal to other worlds

Ladybower Reservoir Portal to other worlds
Undoubtedly, it is the best association with this picturesque place. However, the funnel reservoir is not a miracle of nature, it’s human technological interaction with nature. Of course, the impressive sight, like the gateway to hell, has become a popular tourist location. Ladybower is a large Y-shaped reservoir, the lowest of three in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. Built between 1935 and 1943 by the Derwent Valley Water Board, it took a further two years to fill (1945).
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Stone wonders of Russia. Orenburg Camel Hill

Stone wonders of Russia.
Camel Hill (Verblyuzhka Mountain, Russian – Верблюжка) is located in the Orenburg region, 9 km south-east of the village Vostochny on the left bank of the East ephemeral stream Aschisu. It is an outlier quartzite rock up to 20 meters. Double-humped camel is one of the most original natural sculptures and a symbol of the Orenburg Ural steppes. For a long time the wind blew the soil, and the mountain, composed solid rock into a twenty-meter quartz boulder that resembles a lying camel.
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Red and white half moon Betta fish. Multicolored Siamese fighting fish

Multicolored Siamese fighting fish
Siamese fighting fish, or Betta splendens is a popular species of freshwater aquarium fish. Betta is known as the Siamese fighting fish because males are extremely territorial and will fight to the death if put into the same tank where the weaker male cannot escape from the territory of the dominant fish. They recognize other Betta fish by sight and if a male Betta is shown his reflection in a mirror, it will cause him to flare his fins and engage in intimidating displays before trying to attack his own reflection. The name of the genus is derived from ikan bettah, taken from a local dialect of Malay. The wild ancestors of this fish are native to the rice paddies of Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam. If only one couple is in the aquarium — male and female, normally they have dull coloring with a touch of basic color-red, blue, green or pink with brown oblong strips running along the body from head to tail, and only during the spawning, both are painted in bright colors. The male Betta splendens depicted on the wallpaper desktop core themes Windows 7 Beta.
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Double Rainbow consists of a bottom — brighter, and above, less bright, for a short period. The first is called primary, the second — sideline. Multiple rainbows

Multiple rainbows
Admiring the rainbow we sometimes notice that it has a twin – another arc, modest, slightly prominent. And some have seen just three or four rainbows at the same time. But such cases are very rare. Double Rainbow consists of a bottom – brighter, and above, less bright, for a short period. The first is called primary, the second – sideline. Both rainbows face each other with red edges of the arc so that the main rainbow red edge was on the convex side. Secondary rainbows are caused by a double reflection of sunlight inside the raindrops, and appear at an angle of 50–53°. As a result of the second reflection, the colors of a secondary rainbow are inverted compared to the primary bow, with blue on the outside and red on the inside. The secondary rainbow is fainter than the primary because more light escapes from two reflections compared to one and because the rainbow itself is spread over a greater area of the sky. The dark area of unlit sky lying between the primary and secondary bows is called Alexander’s band, after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it.
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Located in the Olympic Village in Sydney Abandoned ship has turned into Floating Forest

Abandoned ship has turned into Floating Forest
Everything in life is cyclical, and sometimes it happens that the death of one is the birth of something new. The same happened with the British steamship SS Ayrfield, abandoned for many years. Located off the coast of the Olympic Village in Sydney, its rusty body during this time has become a true mangroves. The second name of the ship — The Floating Forest. The ship, built in Britain in 1911, was used by the Australian government for the U.S. troops stationed in the Pacific during World War II. Sold in 1950 and used to transport coal from Newcastle to Sydney, its fate changed in 1972. Someone decided not to send it to Sydney Homebush Bay, and it remains in the Olympic Village in Sydney to this day.
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Rising above the surrounding forest, tepuis are almost vertical walls, and many of them rise to more than 1,000 m above the jungle. The Lost World exists in reality

The Lost World exists in reality
Tepuis is flat mesas on the Guiana Highlands in South America, particularly in Venezuela. The language of the Pemon people who live in the Gran Sabana, the word tepuis means “House of the Gods” – because they are very high. Tepuis are separate mountains, so they can find a great variety of endemic species of plants and animals, some of which are found only here, in tepuis.
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