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Night shift first: lesser long-nosed bats and moths do the pollinating in the dark 🦇 Then bees and white-winged doves take the morning shift before the blooms close for good.

SAGUARO: The ONE NIGHT FLOWER 🌵🌙 Each spring, the giant saguaro's white blooms open after sunset — and wilt by the next afternoon. Less than 24 hours for a bat, a moth or a bee to find them. The desert doesn't do encores. #Saguaro #Cactus #Nature 📸: SaguaroNPS via Wikimedia Commons

Every corner of the globe has its own rhythm. 🌍🎶 Experiencing the timeless art and tradition of street performers in India. Quick Travel Trivia: Does anyone know the traditional name of this gourd flute instrument being played? 👇 📍 India #Travel #IncredibleIndia #Culture #Wanderlust

Flip it over and the show disappears — the underside is dull brown with eyespots, like a dead leaf 🍂 In flight it flashes blue-brown-blue, so predators keep losing it mid-chase

This butterfly is not blue 🦋💙 There's zero blue pigment in a blue morpho's wings. Microscopic scales bend the light until only blue bounces back — grind the wing to powder and it's just… brown. Nature's greatest magic trick? 👇 #Butterfly #Nature #Science 📸: Alias 0591 via Wikimedia Commons

the Gothic abbey on a tidal island. Europe's biggest tides (up to 15 m) surround it twice a day. Victor Hugo said the sea rushes in 'at the speed of a galloping horse' 🐎

MONT SAINT-MICHEL, Normandy, France 🇫🇷

The chamber is 310 metres long with a ceiling 120 metres high — and the name means "meeting place of the spirits" 👀

He MEANT to do that 😱🪂 Not an accident — this is a planned BASE jump into Majlis al-Jinn, Oman, one of the largest cave chambers on Earth. He leaps through a hole in the roof and freefalls into the dark… on purpose. Would YOU jump? 👇 #ExtremeSports #BASEjump #Oman 🎥: Quest Films via Wikimedia Commons

Why pink? Humpback dolphins are born dark grey and lose pigment as they age — blood vessels under the pale skin flush PINK, especially when they're active 🩷 The Oman dolphin is very likely one of these.

A PINK dolphin 🩷🐬 Spotted this week off Qantab Beach in Muscat, Oman — swimming alongside its regular grey podmates. Experts haven't confirmed the species yet… Real, or too good to be true? 👇 #PinkDolphin #Oman #Wildlife 📸: Leonard Reback via Wikimedia Commons

THE LAST GENERATION TO SEE FIREFLIES? ✨ That claim went viral this week — and scientists say it's not true. Not YET. Fireflies really are disappearing: a study of 24,000+ surveys found them declining. The surprising culprit? Our lights. Their glow is how they find each other — and city lights are drowning out the signals. 2,000+ species still light up summer nights around the world. When did YOU last see one? 👇 #Fireflies #Nature #Wildlife 📸: Zsolyomi via Wikimedia Commons

TOMORROW NIGHT: look up 🌠 The Orionids peak — pieces of Halley's Comet, burning up at 66 km/s #️⃣ #Orionids #MeteorShower 📸: Jim Vajda via Wikimedia Commons

FT: PSG 4-2 BARÇA. Somebody's perfect run died at the Parc des Princes tonight — Barça's 11-0 start is over. This game DELIVERED 🍿🔥"

Wild fox fact 🧭 Scientists found foxes may use Earth's magnetic field as a rangefinder when they pounce — they mostly jump facing northeast, and it works 73% of the time vs 18% in other directions

Built in 1633 by the King of Mengwi — and the lake's water still feeds the irrigation for Bali's rice fields today 🌾

A temple that FLOATS on water 🛕💧 This is Pura Ulun Danu Bratan in Bali — when Lake Bratan runs high, the whole temple complex looks like it's drifting on the lake. It honors Dewi Danu, the goddess of water — and it's so iconic it's printed on Indonesia's 50,000-rupiah note 💵 #️⃣ #Bali #Indonesia #Travel 📸: Konstantinos Trovas via Wikimedia Commons