While nature is often viewed as picturesque and stunning, there are also horrors that are sometimes better left unexplained and avoided.
In an article on Bored Panda, readers were encouraged to submit images that they feel capture nature in its most remarkable form – and the incredibly bizarre, and often horrifying, shots may well leave your skin crawling.
These memorizing images feature scary animals, including a five-legged frog found in one amateur photographer’s neighborhood, as well as the creepiest bat alive.
But those are not the only horrors of nature; users also shared other shocking moments, such as when frogs took over someone’s toilet after a flood and what a puffer fish’s bones look like after it dies.
Arachnophobes should also proceed with caution, as well as anyone with a particularly sensitive stomach…
In the neighborhood: One user on Reddit shared a five-legged frog that lives by their home and has become a popular animal for people in the area to look for


Insane: A pet owner shared the natural transformation of a gecko after the lizard ate its tail before regrowing another one

Majestic: One picture captured seaweed in the ocean that mirrored that of tentacles


New friends? Some people got unwanted surprises in their bathrooms when they found frogs and snakes in their toilets

Scary: One of the creepiest bats in the world is the Hammerhead bat, which has a face that some say looks similar to that of a donkey


Humanlike: Some plants take on the features of humans, including this plant that looks like it has tiny hands (left) and Xylaria Polymorpha, which is a fungus commonly known as ‘Dead Man’s Fingers’ (right)

Insane: Scallops actually have both teeth and eyes in case people didn’t know. One person captured a closer look


Strange: One frog was very proud of itself after it captured a large spider (left). But while the picture on the right also looks like an animal, it is actually a fungus that mirrors that of a creature hatching out of an egg

More than it can chew: One Black Swallower died after it attempted to consume a fish that was four times its own body size


Traumatic: One gardener captured the terrifying moment they pulled out a skull from the ground while another person found a post covered in worms and other insects, apparently trying to escape from floodwaters


Crawly critters: Users captured terrifying shots of bugs including one image of a spider surrounded by bugs it got on its web (left) and a flock of some kind of insect in Rome, Italy, one evening (right)

Sad: One poor snake was unable to fight of the number of ticks that was covering its long body

Hard core: If anyone was ever curious, one person posted a picture of the bones of a puffer fish after it dies


Time to move out: Some people took the time to take pictures of large spiders they found around their homes

Unexpected: One picture shows the fascinating inside of a goose’s mouth after it opened its beak wide

Work of art? A deer head that remained under water for a year washed up and revealed how the bone turned a shiny black

Heart pounding: One person found a chair out on their patio covered in an army of wasps


Bizarre: After a large storm, a puffer fish got trapped in a tree so someone took a picture (left). In another image, someone captured what it looks like when snapdragon plants dry up and leave behind what looks like a skull

Master of disguise: One type of spider has the ability to wrap its body around a tree limb and match the wood