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Zoomed-out view of an Inachis.Butterflies are characterized by their scale-covered wings. The coloration of butterfly wings is created by minute scales.
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Bothriechis lateralis is a venomous pitviper species found in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama.[1] No subspecies are currently recognized.
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Spangles mating
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Major features of the solar system, distances of centers of the planets to a modified logarithmic scale. Terrestrial planets are 10 times enlarged.
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Troides magellanus
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Papilio ulysses.
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Hydrangea macrophylla blossoms are either pink or blue, depending on a pH-dependent mobilization and uptake of soil aluminium into the plants.
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F-117A painted in "Gray Dragon" experimental camouflage scheme.
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Fishes - Marine Products - Blue Fin Tuna - Weighing Scale
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Theclinae
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Coal tipple at Blue Heron
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Celastrina neglecta(BUTTERFLY)
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The Blue mosque
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EUREKA, Calif. - A Blue Lake Fire Department firefighter assists a volunteer victim during a mass rescue drill on April 13, 2011. U.S. Coast Guard Group/Air Station Humboldt Bay teamed up with more than 24 state, local and industry partners to conduct the largest full-scale mass rescue exercise in regional history. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin Metcalf. (1200919) ( Mass Rescue Exercise near Humboldt Bay )
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Left half of the ceiling, after restoration
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Larvikite.
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Mine 18 display
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Entrance to Mine 18
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The depot (right), Company store (left)
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Psilocybe zapotecorum mushroom
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High-precision test of general relativity by the Cassini space probe (artist's impression): radio signals sent between the Earth and the probe (green wave) are delayed by the warping of space and time (blue lines) due to the Sun's mass.
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Blue Lake Ashi ship Lake Ashi (芦ノ湖, Ashino-ko?), or Hakone Lake, Ashinoko Lake, is a scenic lake in the Hakone area of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshū, Japan. It is a crater lake that lies along the southwest wall of the caldera of Mount Hakone, a complex volcano.
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1997/10/13 Mars´ Inner Core - This figure shows a cross-section of the planet Mars revealing an inner, high density core buried deep within the interior. Dipole magnetic field lines are drawn in blue, showing the global scale magnetic field that one
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Iguana is a genus of lizard native to tropical areas of Central and South America and the Caribbean.(A few species of iguanas like the Fiji Banded Iguana are however found outside the New World). The genus was first described by Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in his book Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena in 1768. The genus Iguana includes two species: the green iguana (a popular pet) and the lesser Antillean iguana. The word "Ig
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False-color Cassini radar mosaic of Titan's north polar region. Blue coloring indicates low radar reflectivity, caused by hydrocarbon seas, lakes and tributary networks filled with liquid ethane, methane and dissolved N2
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Buildings between montonhas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Topkapı Palace
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2005/01/22 Saturn´s moon Tethys battered and grooved The battered surface of Tethys (1060 kilometres across) seen here has a neutral hue, and is a mosaic of two Cassini-Huygens ´footprints´. Three images taken in the red, green and blu
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In the late 18th-century painting The Old Plantation, African-Americans dance to banjo and percussion.
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Prumnopitys is a genus of conifers belonging to the podocarp family Podocarpaceae. The eight recognised species of Prumnopitys are densely-branched, dioecious evergreen trees up to 40 metres in height. The leaves are similar to those of the yew, strap-shaped, 1-4 cm long and 2-3 mm broad, with a soft texture; they are green above, and with two blue-green stomatal bands below. The seed cones are highly modified, reduced to a central stem 1-5 cm long bearing several scales; from one to five scales