See the blooming of common snowdrop flowers
Time-lapse video of common snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) flowers blooming, filmed over two days.
Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Vadim Chalmovich/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn how eccrine glands in the skin secrete sweat through pores in the skin's surface, from which the sweat evaporates, removing heat from the body.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Media Editor: Lauren Sims
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.We have questions about hurricane season. Britannica editor John Rafferty has answers.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The location, importance, and mechanisms of photosynthesis. Study the roles of chloroplasts, chlorophyll, grana, thylakoid membranes, and stroma in photosynthesis.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Plants, ranging from the simple liverwort (a bryophyte) to the flowering plants (angiosperms), have evolved structures enabling them to colonize the land of almost any habitat.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Gymnosperms dominated the plant world until they were replaced by the more advanced flowering plants known as angiosperms.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about the unusual seed dispersal of the squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).
