Machu Picchu: Before And After Photos
Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres northwest of Cusco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca [...]
Soviet Large Hadron Collider
Everybody has heard about the Large Hadron Collider, which recently launched at CERN. But that’s about its Soviet analogue few people know. Accelerator itself, or rather what was left of him is in Protvino, Moscow Region. Protvino was founded as a workers’ settlement simultaneously with the construction of a proton accelerator in 1960.Now they live [...]
Siberian Winter Swimming
Would you do this at – 36C? I would never do it, I simply couldn’t. But these people from a local club in Krasnoyarsk went swimming in the Yenisei River on December 12, while the air temperature was -36C. The Yenisei River goes through portions of northern Russia and Mongolia before depositing into the Arctic. [...]
Brute Force Of Nature
Towering above the landscape that surrounds it, this huge boulder is a graphic display of the awesome force created by an erupting volcano. The 1,000-ton rock, which stands more than 50 feet high, tumbled to the valley floor after the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland earlier this year. The giant stone was released [...]
Artists Create World’s Largest Sand Sculpture
Measuring a total of 22.43 meters in height, this detailed sand sculpture, created at the Zhoushan Sand Sculpture Festival, in China, has been acknowledged as the world’s tallest sand sculpture. Officials from the Guinness Book of Records arrived in Zhoushan, on Wednesday, September 29, and after careful measurement, confirmed the sand masterpiece will be going [...]
Flying giants: Incredibly rare display as manta rays leap 9ft out of water into the air
They could be mistaken for strange-looking birds but these creatures are actually manta rays, leaping a staggering nine feet in the air. The plucky animals, which measure just over three feet wide, demonstrate their acrobatic skills by bursting out of the water. Once airborne they to flap their impressive fins in what looks like an [...]
Can You See Me? | Animal Camouflage: Leaf Mimics
Nature is fascinating, and some of Nature’s best work—or evolution rather—is illustrated by a group of animals that have evolved adapted to mimic leaves. Leaf mimics employ a heightened form of camouflage to evade detection from predators or prey. These animals make use of extraordinary color patterns, in addition to modified exoskeletons, skin, scales, and [...]
Seven Of The World’s Weirdest Plants
September 9, 2010 by ivana
Filed under Nature, Photography
Everyone should be familiar with the genus Dionea or “Venus Fly Trap” above, but the vegetative world is home to plenty stranger, and while perhaps not as adrenaline-pumping as Crustaceans or as gruesome as Amphibians, plants provide food, shelter and oxygen for the entire kingdom Animalia, so they certainly deserve the spotlight once in a [...]
Underground Sea
The Moravian Karst is a karst landscape and protected nature reserve to the north of Brno in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, located near the town of Blansko. This region is also home to one of the most important single geological features in the Czech Republic, the Macocha Abyss, a gorge 138 m [...]
One Of The Most Beautiful Places On Earth?
Navagio Beach, or the Shipwreck, is an isolated sandy cove on Zakynthos island and one of the most famous beaches in Greece. It is notable because it is home to the wreck of the alleged smuggler ship Panagiotis, it is often referred to as ‘Smugglers Cove’.
