5 Photos Of Nature (That Are Scarier Than Any Horror Movie)

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You Have No Idea How Big Wasp Nests Get

Wasps, like Beyonce fans, are tireless workers who will readily lay down their lives for their queen. And they also won't hesitate to stab you for looking at them wrong. As such, one English homeowner found herself suddenly short a pair of pants when she walked into her spare bedroom to find this writhing mess staring her in the face:

John Birkett/Longwood Services Pest Control"Sleeeeep ... Foreverrrrr ..."

No, these aren't some scary new breed of "fast zombie" wasps. The bedroom window had been left open, and the room hadn't been entered for several months, which seems like the real story here. If you have so many bedrooms that you completely forget about one of them for the better part of a year, maybe donate a few to charity or something. Regardless, after all was said and done, 5,000 wasps were removed from the three-foot nest. That included 700 queens, because wasps have some weird ideas about royalty.

A three-foot-wide nest is pretty impressive, but wasps can do better. Much better:

San Sebastian de La Gomera Police Department

San Sebastian de La Gomera Police Department "Better than a New York City apartment"-size better.

That's a 22-foot-wide nest which authorities found inside an abandoned home in San Sebastian de La Gomera, the capital of the Canarian island of La Gomera. Police estimated that the house was swarming with at least a few million wasps, and somehow seemed puzzled that they couldn't find the homeowner. Don't they understand? That home obviously belongs to the wasps now.

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Even Tiny Sea Fleas Are Bloodthirsty Maniacs

After a long day of soccer and trying not to get eaten by mutant kangaroos, 16-year-old Australian Sam Kanizay dipped his sore legs into the cool waters of Melbourne's Brighton Beach. It wasn't until he got out that he noticed hundreds of little punctures on his lower legs. That was cause enough for concern, but then the bleeding started. A lot of bleeding. Like, this much "a lot":

Jarrod Kanizay

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Snowy Owls Build Horrifying Death Nests

The Harry Potter movies turned snowy owls into lovable pets, but in real life, Hedwig would have probably tried to devour Neville at least once. Snowy owls routinely and easily eat animals much bigger than they are, but their favorite snack is adorable, adorable lemmings. They'll eat as many as five of those honkers in a day. Back in 2013, researchers studying snowy owls in northern Quebec stumbled upon a surprisingly grisly scene: an owl nest built from 70 lemming corpses.

Christine Blais-SoucyAnd 700 petting zoo nightmares.

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Cows Can Be Carnivorous, And It's Really Unsettling To Watch

In 2007 India, a farmer and his family lost 48 chickens in one month. That sounds like the first ten minutes of a giant monster movie, but regardless, they decided to investigate, convinced that the neighborhood dogs were to blame. What they found was something much more unsettling: The family's calf, which they had affectionately named Lal, snuck up on a chicken and ate it alive.

The local vet suggested that the cow's strange behavior was caused by a lack of nutrients in its diet, leaving it deficient in certain vital minerals. That led Lal to seek out other sources of food to get the vitamins he needed, which apparently included Vitamin Terror. Others explained that the cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism, had obviously been a tiger in his previous life. Either way, you can watch him in action if you want to do that ... for some reason.

The episode of Cow And Chicken that didn't make the cut.

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Orcas Are Messed-Up Psychopaths

Orca whales aren't as kind and gentle as they're depicted in movies like Free Willy and Free Willy 2: Tokyo Drift. They're called "killer whales" for a reason. They're aquatic sadists who seem to enjoy toying with their prey, as witnessed by this no doubt traumatized whale watching tour off the coast of Victoria, BC.

Roll.Focus. ProductionsPictured: The rudest incident ever recorded in Canadian waters.