Yasemin

🦦Friendly woman who loves conversations about life and travel 🇺🇸

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"I feel the beauty between the air and the water."🩵

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"Golden hour hits different when the view is this good 💛"

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It's so nice to walk with the dog when the flowers are in bloom🐶

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This mushroom can make people see tiny humans

Eating undercooked Lanmaoa asiatica can cause vivid hallucinations of miniature people or elf-like figures. Scientists still don't know what causes these visions or why so many people report seeing the same tiny figures

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These chonky birds are called Eurasian bullfinches

Male bullfinch has bright pink-red chest, while the female has a soft gray-brown chest. They form strong lifelong pairs and are often seen eating and spending time together

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These are all biomes within Alberta, a single Canadian province

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Indonesian pit viper looks like a living sapphire

A rare blue color morph of the white-lipped island pit viper, this venomous snake is found in eastern Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands. Its vivid turquoise scales are the result of a natural genetic variation

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Workers accidentally discover hidden cave in Romania sealed for millions of years

Movile Cave is home to a unique ecosystem where life survives without sunlight, relying on chemicals instead of photosynthesis and supporting dozens of species found nowhere else on Earth

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This truck driver has built over 1700 homes for stray animals

Brazilian truck driver Leomar Aparecido Miguel uses his days off to build and donate wooden shelters, giving stray dogs and cats a safe place to sleep

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Not all deserts are hot

Antarctica is the world's largest desert, receiving even less precipitation than many of the hottest deserts

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Yellowstone wolves have been known to raise rival pups as their own

Instead of killing orphaned pups after taking over a pack, some wolves adopt and care for them. The pups are treated like family and help strengthen the pack as they grow

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Climate change could impact one of the ocean's smartest animals

A new study found young bigfin reef squid exposed to higher CO₂ levels developed smaller brains, raising concerns about the future of marine life.

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Not all owls live in trees

Burrowing owls make their homes underground, often using abandoned burrows left behind by prairie dogs and other animals

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A new summer trend in China has pets relaxing on giant winter melons

The melons stay naturally cool for hours, giving cats and dogs a refreshing place to lie down

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This bird completely transforms for the breeding season

Male ruffs grow spectacular feather collars in unique colours and gather at leks to compete for the attention of females

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Dorito's eyes made the internet think she wasn't real

They were actually caused by complications from ocular FIP, but after months of treatment she recovered and found her forever home

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Golden-handed tamarin looks like it's wearing tiny golden gloves

Native to the Amazon rainforest, this small primate spends most of its life in the treetops, where it searches for fruits, insects, tree sap and small animals while living in tight family groups

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A black olive tree with a naturally hexagonal branching pattern

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Today I learned there is a fish that looks like a Venom symbiote and produces its own light to hunt

The scaleless black dragonfish is a deep-sea predator that uses bioluminescence to lure prey and survive in the pitch black depths of the ocean