Imagine how uninteresting our lives would be without mini-beasts and butterflies.
Gardens would be without curiosities, discoveries would be limited to the obvious, and the magical world of colour and flowers – curated by the miraculous – would be non-existent.
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In the Jungle of Sulawesi, an island in the Indonesian archipelago, a gruesome discovery was made that has forever changed our point of view. 2019, two scientists from Sydney, Australia, were on a getaway, happy snapping the fauna and flora of the jungles in Sulawesi, when they happened upon a butterfly frenzy like none they had seen before.
Caterpillars don’t make cocoons, nor do they sprout wings, grow a proboscis and curly head-wear from a body that shrunk in size on a two-week hiatus from eating so much food.
It is far more miraculous, exciting and mind-boggling – how a caterpillar becomes something entirely other than itself.
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Nudibranchs are not only brilliantly adorned harlequin shapeshifters and chemical manufacturing killing machines – These oceanic wonderments have other exciting abilities no one thought possible. Learn why these gorgeous, colourful slugs are considered Pokémons of the sea.
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Theres’ a Disco in The Sea, and You’re invited! –
Down below, where you hardly ever go – the world of a Nudibranch is a cornucopia of colour.
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A celebration of Nudibranchs. Sea slugs that are brilliantly coloured, strangely beautiful and defy biological convention.
Find out what makes a Nudibranch seem more like Pokémon than a slug.
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Sharing the story of this particular species, because of their profound uniqueness – might help change the perception of those not too keen on bugs. Hopefully, you will be inspired, like me, to rethink your relationship with insects and spiders and put down the can of RAID.
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They have been dubbed “genius” by Sir David Attenborough in his narration of Porche.
Scientists believe that Jumping Spiders are brilliant, likely because of their wildly sophisticated eyesight.
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“More Extraordinary Than a Flying Pig”,- Says Christopher Meehan, Biologist and Natural Historian.
How could it be that a solely carnivorous animal could adapt to eating an almost entirely vegetarian diet?
A spider whose namesake is that of a black Panther defies the logic of biology and eats almost an entirely vegetarian diet.
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Unlike any other spider species, the Jumping spiders have a vision so advanced it is equivalent to a cat or small dog and has the same design as a Galilean telescope, a single tube with a lens on each end. Only three species of animal have this type of eye; a falcon, chameleon, and the Jumping spiders.
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