14+ Photos That Show What Life is Like Behind The Scenes

This is what it looks like under an electron microscope, which brings us the closest we can get to rusty metal without needing a tetanus shot.

According to National Geographic, if a lizard's tail only gets partially removed, its regenerative abilities can sometimes get a little out of whack and produce an extra tail or two.

And that's because we're actually looking an an albino raccoon. It really is amazing how hard it is to recognize without its distinctive colors.

According to Forbes, these are known as mammatus clouds and although they're commonly considered a herald of tornadoes, hail storms, or unusually strong winds, this isn't necessarily true.

Sadly, the real stuff lacks that bright green glow that we often see in cartoons. It just kind of looks like a muddy swamp.

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Wyoming almost seems unreal due to its array of colors, but this is actually what it looks like.

Research has shown that in certain parts of Switzerland, it's not unheard of for ice crystals to rain from the sky and for thin clouds of pure ice to form.

According to Livescience, that's how long ago this massive creature and its 18 mouth tentacles came to rest in what is now China.

In fact, this isn't even the bulkiest a space suit can get. The ones that NASA issues apparently have a lot more parts to it than this slimmed-down Russian model.

Its real name is Caleana Major and it's apparently found in eastern and southern Australia. It's good to remember that not all of that country's wildlife is so terrifying.

As Houstonia reported, this is done to make room for a new host's stem cells before a heart transplant. Once these stem cells grow, they can ensure that the heart pumps blood with a much lower risk of the body rejecting it.

As FastCompany reported, it was created by Stephen von Worley, who used it, in part, to find out where you can go the longest distance without seeing one.

The answer is a patch of grassland between Meadow and Glad Valley, South Dakota. That point is a 145 mile drive from the nearest McDonald's.

This particular one is in Antwerp, Belgium, but similar buildings have been reported in Boston, San Antonio, and New York City.

These ice sheets that look like a sea of broken glass were found in Lake Michigan when temperatures were starting to climb back up after an intensely deep freeze.

Although the resulting big bubble looks pretty cool, it's still probably better to lay a coaster down first.

For the uninitiated, this is what an elephant's tail looks like up close. It's a lot hairier and coarser than most of us are used to seeing.

As some have noticed, the stripes that show on its skin make it closer in color to a zebra than many of its feline cousins.

And that period where the snow is finally starting to give way is also as about as close as this open-air enclosure gets to having a skylight.

Namely, it's a cactus with no actual cactus parts. Those all decomposed, which left only the spines behind.

This also has the effect of making it look like some kind of prickly alien life form.

According to NASA, this massive shadow moved across the earth at about 1,200 miles per hour and also shows why different parts of the world experience eclipses differently.

The publishing information is apparently in ink so the sighted can file it away and the Braille is printed on both sides.

Given how it's spaced on this page, the reason for that seems self-explanatory.

There aren't a lot of ways we could possibly make a butterfly more beautiful, but somebody just found one.