nature with dilyn

TIL that hawk moths pollinate night blooming flowers 🥹🌙

#hawkmoth #moth #biodiversity

Rainbow lorikeets are beautiful parrots that live in Australia. They’re typically monogamous and mate for life!

#rainbowlorikeet #animals

The image shows a diffuse blue reflection nebula in Monoceros. Filament-like wisps of gas and dust glow ethereally against deep black space. Bright white-blue stars sparkle, casting faint halos. A larger bluish knot sits lower left, in addition to other two knots above, where dark dust lanes absorbing light stand out. Cool blue, indigo and black tones dominate, punctuated by distant red and yellow star points, evoking a serene cosmic birthplace.

#WorldScienceDay for Peace and Development.

Science lets us understand the wonderful universe we live in.

It allow us to find answers to emerging challenges so we can create a more just and fair global society.

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #ScienceDay #Science

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Did you know that 85% of the earth’s bacteria live deep beneath the earth’s surface in rocks, sediments, and aquifers??? #bacteria #nature

June beetles get their name from when they’re most active — in June!

#junebeetles #wildlife #nature

Incredible

TIL that invertebrates make up 97% of all animal species!!!!

#invertebrates #animals #biology

Radiolarians are microscopic ocean drifters with skeletons made of silica! They also happen to be beautiful.

#radiolaria #microbiology

Diatoms are incredible and I never even knew about them. They are microscopic algae that make 20-50% of the oxygen on the planet!!!! ✨They also happen to be STUNNING!
#diatoms #microbiology

He says hi back 💙💙💙

Definitely!!!!

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They sure are

Correct!

Tardigrades are also known as water bears or moss piglets and they can survive extreme conditions in many places on planet earth!
#tardigrade #microbiology

Same!!!

Saigas are incredible animals who survived the ice age! They used to live alongside mammoths and saber toothed cats!

#saiga #animals #wildlife

Jane Goodall will always be one of my top role models. From her groundbreaking discoveries with chimpanzees in Gombe to her lifelong fight for animals, forests, and our shared planet, she worked hard to transform how we see the natural world.

Rest in peace, Jane.

#janegoodall #nature #wildlife

How to differentiate crocodiles vs alligators:
-U shaped snout for alligators, V shaped snout for crocs
-bottom teeth more visible for crocs
-alligators are usually darker in colour, crocs more tan or green
-crocs are saltwater and freshwater dwellers, alligators are freshwater specialists

Meet the secretary bird: the bird of prey with an eagle like body and stilts for legs!!
#secretarybird #wildlife #biodiversity

The dumbo octopus 🐙 is a deep sea dweller - often found 3 - 4 km below the surface of the water!!!
#octopus #marinebiology #wildlife

Stoats will sometimes leap, twist, and tumble in an odd dance to distract prey like rabbits before pouncing! 😬
#stoat #biodiversity #conservation

The chambered nautilus is sometimes called a living fossil because it’s barely changed in more than 480 million years - long before dinosaurs were here!

#chamberednautilus #wildlife #biodiversity

Goblin sharks are deep sea dwellers, living 1200 meters below the surface, and can detect electric fields from prey!!! #goblinshark #shark #nature #biodiversity

The Hainan gibbon is the rarest ape on earth with fewer than 40 individuals existing! Fortunately, their numbers have been slowly increasing since the 1970s.
#conservation #wildlife #biodiversity

The reddish-gray mouse lemur is a primate but is only about the size of your hand!!!

#reddishgraymouselemur #wildlife #nature

They travel so far!

Did you know there is a caterpillar that lives in the arctic and takes up to 7 years to become a moth??? I present to you: the arctic woolly bear moth
#wildlife #moth #caterpillar

Polar cods have proteins in their blood that act like anti-freeze and can live under sea ice at temperatures as low as -2 celcius!!!!
#polarcod #wildlife #biodiversity #nature

I would too!!!