Platymma tweediei, often called the (Malaysian) fire snail, is the largest land snail in Peninsular Malaysia, living exclusively in the mountainous forests there
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This is the world's largest quartz crystal cluster on display. it was discovered in 1985 at the bottom of a 45 metre deep cave in the Otjua mine near Karibib in Namibia. It weighs 14,100 kg and took three years to excavate and remove
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A peculiar visualization of gravity on different planets
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Some of Buster Keaton's most amazing stunts
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Called the pioneer of the Perceptual Art movement, artist and sculptor Michael Murphy works with anamorphosis. This is one of his most famous works, "The Immigrant"
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Richard Sidey is a wildlife filmmaker based in Wanaka, New Zealand. This is a footage of a close encounter he had with a humpback whale in Antarctica
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The mottled wood owl is called like this for a precise reason
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Images that produce an illusory motion when scrolling or moving are caused by small, involuntary eye movements generating a ghost image on our retina to overlap with the image on the page
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Bismuth is a brittle metal with a dark hue, often with an iridescent oxide tarnish from yellow to blue. The spiral structure is the result of a higher growth rate around the outside edges than on the inside edges
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Seljalandsfoss is a waterfall in Iceland that drops 60 m (197 ft) and is part of the Seljalands River that has its origin in the volcano glacier Eyjafjallajökull
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How scientists grew plants in lunar soil using samples collected during the Apollo missions to the moon. The first time plants have been sprouted and grown on Earth in soil from another celestial body
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An albino tree is unable to produce chlorophyll & survives by obtaining sugar through neighboring trees' roots
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This is an animation of traffic flows simulated on different kinds of four-way junctions, showing how traffic flow can be optmized. It was recorded in a game called Cities: Skylines, a more realistic take on SimCity.
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The Swedish torch was invented by Finns and it became known in Europe during the 1600s. Compared to a campfire, it is more compact, and therefore several small heat sources can be distributed over an area
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Conophytum pageae is a succulent plant originating from Cape province of South Africa. The name "conophytum" is derived from the Latin conus (cone) and Greek phytum (plant)
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Like other reptiles, box turtles must hibernate during cold winter weather: the right term is brumation. They burrow deep under the soil and leaves, sometime in October usually emerging in April/early May.
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Unlike other mammals, camels' red blood cells are oval. This makes them better at withstanding high osmotic variation without rupturing when drinking large amounts of water: a 600kg camel can drink 200 L of water in 3 minutes
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How this spider uses the elasticity of its threads to lift considerable weights (and use an empty shell as its home)
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The Bagger 288 bucket-wheel excavator can excavate 240,000 tons of coal or 240,000 cubic meters of overburden daily, comparable to a soccer field dug to a depth of 30 meters (98 feet)
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Wolves shed the insulating undercoat during spring, and as autumn approaches, the undercoat thickens. This cycle is driven by hormone levels that rise in the spring with longer days and decrease as day lengths shorten in the fall.
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