The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

The Mushroom That Became A Flying Saucer At Sunset

5:02 AM  , , ,  

Singapore
15 October 2013

An amazing thing happened at sunset today...

First view of this evening's sunset - A remote mushroom cloud with pink, purple and blue streaks  which gradually blossomed into another spiral mushroom cloud...

Doesn't this look like rock formations?

Delicious bubble gum-coloured wisps...

Minutes later, this huge left-angled shadow was formed. How often do you see an upward-casted shadow?

This shadow became a taller and thinner diagonal as the sun sank lower behind this huge cloud mass...

Upon zooming, see the fascinating wind-blown streaks?

This mountain top seems to be forming a cap...

Which morphed into a flying saucer which disappeared into the dark of twilight...



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Fair Weather Clouds

1:41 AM  , ,  

Singapore
24 August 2013

Cirrocumulus stratiformis clouds faraway up in the sky which foretell fair weather for the next half day...



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New Moon Shining Through

9:58 PM  , ,  

Singapore
10 August 2013

A new moon shining through with the Earth casting a shadow over it...



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Balmy Breeze By The Waterway

11:32 AM  , , , ,  

Punggol Waterway 
North-East, Singapore 
March 2013


An orb-weaver awaits inverted on its web...

A nasty-looking Leucauge Argentina (Silver Leucauge) glares at curious passers-by... 


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An Encounter With The Wolves

11:03 PM  , ,  

North-East, Singapore
September 2013

Among the dozens of wolves spotted...
 Every item on the ground is a potential playground...

The courting ritual between the male and the female with the male waving his front legs up in a dance...

 A close-up of a female with her more muted earth colours...

A few other interesting friends on the pebbles - a Caelifera (Grasshopper), a pair of Diplopoda (Millipedes), an Acisoma Panorpoides (Trumpet Tail) Male...

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