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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.