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The Kuroshio Sea, the main tank of the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. Today is World Oceans Day.

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Mauritius kestrel (Falco punctatus), Ebony Forest Reserve Chamarel, Mauritius. In 1974, this Mauritius endemic was the rarest bird in the World. Due to ground-breaking conservation work the population rose to 800, but has now slumped to possibly 400 birds. In 2023, the Government of Mauritius declared the Mauritius Kestrel as its national bird.

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National Museum in Wrocław, Poland.

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Ceiling of the Oratory of Saint Mary Queen and Mother, Málaga, Spain. The church was constructed in 2008 and is host of the Confraternity of the Sorrows. The paintings in the ceiling, done with acrylic paint, are work of Raúl Berzosa Fernández and were executed in different phases between 2008 and 2014. The 140 square metres (1,500 sq ft) surface is dedicated to the Coronation of the Virgin.

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Clouds over the Greater Caucasus Range, along with fog and atmospheric mist. The landscape represents geological features from different geological epochs: Triassic, Jurassic, and the Oligocene. View from Mount Asbestnaya, Republic of Adygea, Caucasus Mountains.

Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Photo art based on a picture of a rolling gate at blast furnace 5 in the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyThe original shot used the creative technique of intentional camera movement. This image was mirrored and recomposed to achieve the symmetry effect.

Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

A European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) in flight at Pfyn-Finges, Switzerland. This image was created by merging three successive photographs of the same bird's flight.

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Nymphs of Chromacris speciosa, Paulo César Vinha State Park, Espírito Santo, Brazil.

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Fresh water collecting in the valleys between sand dunes in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil. A layer of rock beneath the sand prevents the rain water from dissipating during the rainy season, resulting in a broad expanse of lagoons.

Julius Dadalti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

This stained glass window (1880) located in the Cathédrale Saint-Louis (La Rochelle, France) depicts Joan of Arc. Today is St. Joan's feast day.

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Kishū Kumano iwatake tori by Hiroshige II, a Japanese woodblock print in the ukiyo-e style, depicting the harvesting of iwatake mushrooms (Umbilicaria esculenta) near Kumano in the Kishū Domain.

Hiroshige II (1826-1869), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Bicycle parked in front of a graffitied building façade with doors, in a street near Kloveniersburgwal, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.