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📍40 meters deep off the coast of Indonesia
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The red panda is so unique, it has no close relatives. It's the only living species in its genus AND family.

Mola's are the world's heaviest bony fish growing as large as 5,000 lbs

Leucistic wild animals—which have partial loss of pigmentation but, unlike albinos, usually retain dark eyes—suffer from severe sunburn and high skin cancer risk due to a lack of protective melanin. 

Recently spotted in Texas, this horizontal "rainbow" of colour occurs when the sun or moon is over 50 degrees above the horizon and an arc of light passes thru a very specific kind of cloud (Cirrus clouds made up of ice crystals parallel to the ground), at just the right angle.