Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Train Track Veggie Market
Uploaded on Jun 23, 2011
"This is hard to believe, but it is true. They have it down to a science."
Friday, October 25, 2013
Hottest Place on Earth - Dallol, Ethiopia
"During the early 1960s, an American mining company conducted a geological survey of the Danakil. It was in Dallol the team measured the record average temperature of 96° Fahrenheit (35°C). The daily high will frequently eclipse 115°F (46°C)."
via Sometimes Interesting
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Hand Feeding & Playing With A Friendly Platypus
Published on Oct 13, 2013
http://www.cutecreaturesgreatandsmall...
"This beautiful platypus loved playing in the water and loved a tickle! She was so friendly and ate food right out of my hand! There is only one place you can do this in the world and that's at Healesville Sanctuary."
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
18-Foot Long Oar Fish
via the Associated Press
"A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of an 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish. Jasmine Santana of the Catalina Island Marine Institute needed more than 15 helpers to drag the giant sea creature with eyes the size of half dollars to shore Sunday. Staffers at the institute are calling it the discovery of a lifetime. 'We've never seen a fish this big,' said Mark Waddington, senior captain of the Tole Mour, CIMI's sail training ship. 'The last oarfish we saw was three feet long.' Because oarfish dive more than 3,000 feet deep, sightings of the creatures are rare and they are largely unstudied, according to CIMI. The obscure fish apparently died of natural causes. Tissue samples and video footage were sent to be studied by biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara..."
"A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of an 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish. Jasmine Santana of the Catalina Island Marine Institute needed more than 15 helpers to drag the giant sea creature with eyes the size of half dollars to shore Sunday. Staffers at the institute are calling it the discovery of a lifetime. 'We've never seen a fish this big,' said Mark Waddington, senior captain of the Tole Mour, CIMI's sail training ship. 'The last oarfish we saw was three feet long.' Because oarfish dive more than 3,000 feet deep, sightings of the creatures are rare and they are largely unstudied, according to CIMI. The obscure fish apparently died of natural causes. Tissue samples and video footage were sent to be studied by biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara..."
Friday, October 11, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Saturday, October 5, 2013
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