This green turtle chose an unlikely friend for his nap- a moray eel. Green turtles can rest for up to 11 hours each day. 🔎

At the Equator, the daytime period always lasts about 12 hours, regardless of season, and the Sun always rises and sets vertically. The high zenith at solar noon makes these regions the warmest overall on the planet. 🔎

This large reef fish is wholly unafraid of divers, and is usually found in pairs. 🔎

Sunk for decades, this living wreck is host to trumpet fish, blue tangs, surgeonfish, angelfish, eels and many more species. 🔎

A squamate and a theropod dinosaur taking a nap. 🔎

The American flamingo’s preferred habitats are similar to those of its relatives: saline lagoons, mudflats, and shallow, brackish coastal lakes. They frequent Curaçao’s salt flats. 🔎

Green iguanas have a white photosensory organ on the top of their heads called the parietal eye. This “eye” has only a rudimentary retina and lens and cannot form images, but is sensitive to changes in light and dark and can detect movement. 🔎

The green iguana is a large lizard and is the largest species in the iguana family. On islands such as Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba, and Grenada, a green iguana’s colour may vary from green to lavender, black, and even reddish brown. 🔎

Even in the middle of summer, snow settles here at the Moosbach lake in Tirol. 🔎

The troupial, national bird of Venezuela, inhabits dry areas like woodlands, gallery forest, dry scrub, plains, and open savanna, where they forage for insects, a wide variety of fruit, small birds and eggs. 🔎