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?

Bukit Timah Nature Reserve - Where Lizards Roam

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Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Central, Singapore
March 2014

Bukit Timah, being a nature reserve, is always full of surprises. Each visit turns up new finds, some interesting, some fascinating, and always refreshing...

Varanus nebulosus (Clouded Monitor) : This terrestrial lizard can be distinguished from its water-based cousin by its Its colouration comprising yellow spots on a brown-grey base...

A Cyclosa Spider hidden in the "debris" on its web...

The Nintendo-sounding male Dicrurus paradiseus 
(Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo), a male with its beautiful tail...

The serene quarry view with its azure-blue water...

Flora with an interesting base...

A Tetragnathidae (Big-Jawed Spider) with a messy leaf-strewn web...

A real Cyclosa Spider on its web - See the difference?

Summiting at 463.63m one degree north of the Equator...

A not-so-usual hideout for an Argiope (St Andrew's Cross Spider) - A leaf instead of its web...

A fast-moving Salticidae (Jumping Spider) wanders about the railings...


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