The More You Know....

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Successive close-ups of the scales of a Peacock butterfly wing.

Shown from left to right, top to bottom: (second row) a closeup of the scales of the specimen at top, high magnification view of colored scales (different species); (third row) electron micrograph of a patch of wing (~×50 magnification), the scales close up (~×200); (last row) a single scale (×1000), microstructure of a scale (×5000).

 

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That's a huge butterfly.

 

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Thin section of bamboo (10x)

Dooley needed this info to help him grow bamboo. Shoulda consulted the Internet.

 

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Cethosia biblis (butterfly) dried wing scales (20X)

 

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Dooley needed this info to help him grow bamboo. Shoulda consulted the Internet.

RIP, Dools.

 

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I know everyone has been curious to see what a mouse kidney looks like under magnification, so here ya go!

Mouse kidney section (60X)

 

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A sycamore lace bug

 

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These are fractures in thick ice on Ellesmere Island, Canada.

 

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Coral polyps can reproduce asexually, forming cloned buds that separate from the “parent.” They can also release sperm and eggs into the ocean. Fertilized eggs develop into larva, which float off to start a new colony.

 

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Groce.

 

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Passion Flower

 

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A new species of crab, called the yeti crab for the bristles covering its arms, was discovered off the coast of Costa Rica. The yeti crab cultivates gardens of bacteria on its claws as its main food source, occasionally waving its arms to stir up the water around the bacteria and therefore ensure its gardens always have fresh supplies of oxygen and sulphide.

 

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I feel itchy!

 

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Eye of a tokay gecko

 

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If completely compressed, the entire human race could fit inside a sugar cube—atoms are that empty.

 

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Hermit crabs will use whatever shell they can find, including this blown glass shell.

 

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The contents of a mere scoop of seafloor mud

 

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Grand Canyon

 

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Hermit crabs will use whatever shell they can find, including this blown glass shell.

That is awesome.

 

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This is a Barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma). His head is transparent and the eyes are inside the transparent part so he can look straight up.

 

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Lenticular Clouds above Washington.

I really want to visit Washington....looks beautiful!

 

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Glaucus atlanticus or the Blue Ocean Slug, is an insanely cool looking nudibranch. They only grow up to around 3cm, and inhabit many temperate and tropical oceans around the world.

 

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Milky Way above the Himalayas

 

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The collision between the Antennae galaxies, which are located about 62 million light-years from Earth, began more than 100 million years ago and is still occurring.