We could perhaps fool you and claim you"re viewing a long-lost Jackson Pollock canvas, but it was Mother Nature who painted this blackfoot paua (aka rainbow abalone) shell. And modern art it ain"t: Fossils from similar marine gastropods date back at least 65 million years.
A shell of many colors
Today in History
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World Environment Day
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Mangrove Conservation Day
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Cable car station, Graubünden, Switzerland
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Saint Nicholas Day in Verbier, Switzerland
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Eastern grey kangaroos in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park
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Wallabies at sunrise, Australia
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Work out on your way to work
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Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, California
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Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile
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Maldives
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World Bee Day
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Pups of the prairie
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Night view of the RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach, California
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Global commerce in motion
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Midwinter freeze
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Observing a squirrelly day
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A species no longer at risk
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La Geria wine region, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
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It s superb owl Sunday
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Perseid meteor shower over Oregon
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Daiichi Tadami River Bridge, Fukushima, Japan
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Welcome to my neck of the woods
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Shhh, the movie is about to start
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A hint of spring
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Endangered Species Day
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Christmas Eve
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Lavender field, Hertfordshire, England
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European Day of Parks
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Celebrating Labor Day
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It s Star Wars Day
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