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The Super Guppy is a large cargo aircraft that is used for hauling outsize cargo components. It is the only airplane in the world that has carried a complete S-IVB stage, the 3rd stage of the Saturn V rocket [📹 engineering_enigma: buff.ly/3PcIcPK] Join @World&Science ✅️

When it comes to eating, it's literally a (very) fast food for bald eagles. See this one grabbing a fish and elegantly swallowing it in mid air. [📹 Mark Smith: buff.ly/42BkiTO] Join @World&Science ✅️

(⚠️ Warning: This video contains content that some may find disturbing ) 🦌Deer are herbivores and are classified as ruminants because of their rumen, which helps them digest tough plant matter like cellulose. But if food is scarce or they lack minerals such as calcium and phosphorus, they may eat meat. Watch this one eat a snake 🐍 Join @World&Science ✅️

🍴Commonly know as Venus fly trap, these carnivorous plants eat way more than just flies. This is a venomous black widow spider caught in the surprisingly strong trap. [📷 carnivorousplantsjourney: buff.ly/3P7vm8f] ✅Join @World&Science ✅️

Nothing to see here. Only a seagull riding another seagull, mid-flight 🦅 World & Science 👈

Cars parked beside Lake Erie in Hamburg, New York were encased in ice. This happened Saturday, March 18, into Sunday morning 📹Richard Hulburd

​​Water on a grease fire: Water is denser than oil, sinking right to the bottom under the grease fire, it instantaneously boils, going from liquid to gas in less than a second water vapor molecules leave the pan quickly taking the grease/fire outwards. World & Science 👈

Guard bees protecting the hive entrance from intruders. They can use alarm pheromones to call for reinforcements if there is trouble. You can see foragers arriving with full pollen baskets. World & Science 👈

​​This Black Heron is fishing, it uses its wings to make an umbrella to reduce glare and create greater visibility. It’s also a possible trap for fish that want to hide in the shade This behaviour is called “canopy feeding” Video Source: Here World & Science 👈

​​Blue whales are the largest known animal to have ever lived on Earth. For perspective it’s tongue weighs about weighs 4 tons, 100 people could fit inside its mouth, yet the largest thing it can swallow is a grapefruit, which is why they feed on plankton and small fish. World & Science 👈

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​​The Glasswing butterfly, blending into its background, with transparent wings which have nano structures that reduce haze and reflectance. This omnidirectional anti-reflection is enabled by small nanopillars on the transparent sections. Read More World & Science 👈

​​According to an index developed in 2015, Earth is not the most habitable planet found yet. Kepler-442b, a rocky near-Earth-sized exoplanet that is 1206 light-years away from Earth, has a rating of 0.836. On the other hand, Earth has a rating of 0.829. More Reading World & Science 👈

​​Lighting a candle using its own smoke See that white smoke when the candle goes out. That’s paraffin wax vapour. It’s the unburned fuel particles, including unburned carbon, this fuel trail is flammable as seen here it can be ignited. World & Science 👈

​​Cystisoma is a crustacean that lives between 600-1000 m deep in the ocean. Its body is totally transparent: only its eyes are pigmented. This one has a brooding pouch full of orange eggs. World & Science 👈

​​The incredible camouflage of this phasmid World & Science 👈

​​In the forests and scrublands of Madagascar, there are tortoises covered in stars, yellow lines radiate from the center of each dark plate on their shells, hence the name- radiated tortoise. These tortoises are critically endangered. World & Science 👈

​​Watch these stamens move This is the Sparmannia africana flower, the rapid movement is an adaptation for effective pollination. It allows more pollen to be deposited on the agitator, usually an insect Video Source: Chris Howell World & Science 👈

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