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Flamingos make crop milk in their guts. It’s red, because, crab diet. They regurgitate this to young usually one parent at a time. In this instance, both parents are regurgitating at once. As not both beaks fit in babies mouth a champagne pyramid-style funnel system is employed.
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Climate Spiral: March 15, 2022 This visualization shows monthly global temperature anomalies (changes from an average) between the years 1880 and 2021.
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Gaboon Viper. They have the second-highest venom yield for any snake after King Cobra.
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Mosquito laying eggs.
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Aerial shot of a drone flying over the lava flowing at night at the 'La Palma' volcano in Spain
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A really big ant. The leaf cutter ant queen can have a size of 5 cm (2 inches), and live more than 20 years. Cultivation of fungus for food by fungus-farming capable ants was originated about 50 million years ago.
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An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle, commonly known as a "death spiral" because the ants die of exhaustion.
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How different combinations of coastal defences and wave and tide conditions affect overtopping and flood risk
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A heron using bread as bait to catch fish.
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Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.
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Mongoose are largely immune to the snake venom, only succumbing after several bites. That along with their exceptional speed and agility mean they’ll typically tire out the snake before it has a chance to kill them.
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This is the thickness of a Penguin’s inner layer of feathers to keep themselves insulated
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The inside of a wasp nest.
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Found throughout the Indo-Pacific, Ctenoides ales is a striking saltwater clam with colorful tendrils and a peculiar talent long known to divers. It produces flashes of light that at first glance look like flickers of neon or ripples of electricity. Nicknamed electric disco clam'
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The Executioner Bird (or Impaler Bird) will impale its prey on a spike, splinter, or barbed wire. This unique technique uses it to hold its prey while eating it, to store it, or to attract a partner. #birds
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To better understand pollution impact on fish organs, scientists in Taiwan added jellyfish genes to carp fish DNA and these glowing fish are the result. #science #pollution
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How a sperm is injected directly into the egg using a fine glass needle. #invitro #fertility
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Smoke is Unburned Particles of Carbon Released when the Hydrocarbon chain of Candle Wax Breaks Down
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