1401
Watch how the Australian Bat Clinic cares for orphaned baby bats: feeding, grooming, attending to their medical needs, and making them feel warm and safe by wrapping them like a baby bat burrito [full video: buff.ly/2vuwTLq]
1402
Butterflies & moths aren't the only insects that spin cocoons. Some chrysomelidae leaf beetles (instead of a silky & fabric-like substance) use a process with a foamy secretion which vaguely resemble a 3D printing process
[source: buff.ly/2Zl6RcG]
1403
There's a place in China where the mountains are like trees and the trees grow like branches [read more: buff.ly/2nrjTpf]
1404
Eucalyptus flowers have no petals, but instead decorate themselves with the many showy stamens and they are enclosed in a cap known as an operculum. This picture taken by Peter Nydegger perfectly captures their peculiar beauty
[read more: buff.ly/2KyXSPS]
1405
Macro photography gets amazing details of the animal world, like this wasp blowing a water bubble reflecting a rose, captured by photographer Lim Choo How
[source: bit.ly/2gLzrky]
1406
Retweet if you were part of one of those tiny first 4 bars.
[source: buff.ly/3jWsfiC]
1407
Dr Tatiana Erukhimova from TAMU Physics explains the basic principle of a gyroscope using the classic bike spinning wheel and a rope
[read more: buff.ly/3Thf1g8]
[📹 TAMU Physics & Astronomy videos: buff.ly/3Qm5YJ2]
1408
This isn’t a painting, it’s an unedited photograph. Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park [source, read more: buff.ly/2G9ef3q]
1409
How Bryan Snyder captured an alligator lizard fighting back from inside the belly of a kingsnake
[source, read more: bit.ly/2wdYP4N]
1410
Ever imagined how big black holes can be? They are true monsters of the cosmos: in this video Alvaro Gracia-Montoya made a comparison of their size
[full video, HD: buff.ly/3JS2jkc]
1411
A considerable portion of an owl body volume is made up by feathers: as a consequence, the length of their legs is never correctly estimated [read more: buff.ly/2vwNukL]
1412
This BMW was presented at CES 2022 to showcase a technology that enables a car to change its exterior colour, using an all-electric iX to debut this innovative paint changing technology
[source, read more: buff.ly/3EVlSnF]
1413
The Incas never invented the wheel, never figured out the arch, and never discovered iron. But they were masters of fiber. They built ships out of fiber, armors, weapons and even bridges. This is the last Incan suspension bridge, made entirely out of grass ow.ly/RX9R50EfXiU
1414
Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together. It is biologically similar to grafting & such trees are called gemels. This is an example (Bükk National Park, Hungary) where one tree was cut [read more: buff.ly/3B6xodW]
1415
The Veluwemeer Aqueduct in Harderwijk, The Netherlands, is a 25-meter long water bridge and an architectural beauty, allowing 28,000 vehicles to pass under it daily
[read more: bit.ly/2xCKvnP]
[📹 buff.ly/3IvofCW]
1416
Ocean sponges are multi-cellular animals that don’t walk or swim. They eat by filter-feeding. How powerful are their filters? With the help of non-toxic fluorescein dye, we can see how highly effective ocean sponges are as filters of ocean water [source: buff.ly/2HTzuoQ]
1417
Chameleons have the most distinctive eyes of any reptile. Each eye can pivot and focus independently, allowing the chameleon to observe two different objects simultaneously
[read more: buff.ly/2q4wcW1-]
[source: buff.ly/3HjhktS-]
1418
This clip from a 1961 documentary shows how a map was made, using tellurometers, punch cards, stereo plotting machines tracing scale maps from aerial photographic plates
[full video: buff.ly/3vCqsUi]
1419
The complete human nervous system dissection
In 19th-century Philadelphia, an anatomist dissected and mounted this human nervous system. Now researchers are trying to figure out whose remains are stretched out in a glass case
[source, read more: buff.ly/3bYUB8B]
1420
Java mouse-deer are capable of breeding at any time during the year. Additionally, female mouse-deer have the potential to be pregnant throughout most of their adult life, and they are capable of conceiving 85–155 minutes after giving birth [read more: ow.ly/YkUe30nmY9v]
1421
Population growth from 10,000 BCE to today
[video by Robert Rohde, HD: buff.ly/3egX55U]
1422
Five metronomes are set to 176 bpm and placed on a Foam Core board. When empty cans are placed underneath, the board is free to move from side to side and the metronomes are able to influence each other into synchronization [read more: buff.ly/2tXDdKH]
1423
Aliens? Unknown mysterious sea creatures?
They're just upside-down dried out Aloe Ferox (or Cape Aloe) leaves which the sea washed ashore, captured by photographer Jan Vorster on the Stilbaai shore, South Africa
[read more: buff.ly/3FHD5EK]
1424
Zeugma is a 2,200 year old city located in modern Gaziantep Province, Turkey and it's one of the largest mosaic museums in the world. In 2014, this magnificent mosaic depicting the nine muses was discovered
[read more: buff.ly/3C9zQCe]
1425
Though the great argus is not as colorful as other pheasants, its display surely ranks among the most remarkable. The male dances before the female with his wings spread into enormous fans buff.ly/3iVzfKV [📹️ Mel Cutler: buff.ly/3enphhH]
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