The Blue Hour: A Stunning Illustrated Celebration of Nature’s Rarest Color

“The day ends. The night falls. And in between… there is the blue hour.” Blue, Rebecca Solnit wrote in one of humanity’s most beautiful reflections on our planet’s primary hue, is “the color of solitude...

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Watch a sea slug sever its own head… and survive
bgr.com - Mike Wehner • 13h
For the vast majority of animals on this planet, losing their head would be a near-instant death sentence. Creatures that have distinct heads …
BGR
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This Rare Flower Takes Years To Bloom. Someone Razed...
VICE - Heather Chen • 5h
The Malaysian forest sanctuary was also home to several wildlife species like hornbill, deer, elephants and tapirs. A forest sanctuary home to large and rare Rafflesia flowers in Malaysia has been destroyed,...
VICE
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World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Hatches Another Chick…...
Daily Paws - Chad Taylor • 13h
Turns out age and Wisdom really DO go hand in hand. A mōlī (Laysan albatross) named Wisdom recently hatched another chick on the remote Pacific island …
Bad Blood
flipped into CUTE AS CRITTERS - AND ALL THE REST CUTE OR NOT
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10 Quirky Animals of the Steppe
treehugger.com • 12h
The steppe, sometimes called the grasslands or prairie, is one of Earth's major biomes. Found in North and South American and parts of Asia and …
SAMMY
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