The Flying Saucer At Sunset

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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

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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?

Firefly Fairyland In Urban Singapore

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Punggol
North East, Singapore
January 2014

In a deserted corner of Punggol, Merlion Wayfarer found what she never expected to see in 21st century urban Singapore - Fireflies...


It was on a night trek that she noticed some flashing "lights" in bush. It was a path that she had walked by before in the day, but had not paid much heed to the nondescript bushes.

Yet, tonight... the shrubs before her was transformed into a fairyland of mystique little creatures. It was a truly magical feeling when one flew and landed on her palm...

 


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