View the blossoming of the common snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) flower

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A light micrograph is used to capture footage of the tiny tardigrade, or water bear.

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The banded sand snake (Chilomeniscus cinctus) is adapted to burrowing, and “swims” beneath the sand. The sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes) uses a different method of locomotion—sidewinding—to move along the sand's surface. Both snakes are found in North American deserts.

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Learn about Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), found on Komodo Island and a few other islands of Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands.

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The perfect absorbers of solar radiation are black objects, yet plants, which depend on efficient mechanisms of absorbing solar radiation, are overwhelmingly green. Speculation of why this is so ranges from random chance to the possibility that the radiation-absorbing properties of chlorophyll are adequate to provide for the energy needs of Earth's plants.

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Bryophytes, such as mosses and liverworts, are the most primitive plants.

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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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Time-lapse video of common snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) flowers blooming, filmed over two days.