Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts

Friday, March 4, 2011

Bamboo wallpaper

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Bamboo wallpaper

Friday, May 30, 2008

The world's last 'lost' tribes spotted at the Amazon rainforest!!!

The remarkable picture above shows one of the world's last 'lost' tribesreact as experts hover above. It has been photographed for the first time in virgin forest at the Amazonrainforest.

With their skin painted orange or black and brandishing bows and arrows the tribe in the Envira region on the Brazil-Peru border look ready to take on unwelcome visitors. According to Metro, their language, population and society remains unknown.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Strange Crawling Fish Discovered off Ambon Island, Indonesia!!!

The fist-sized fish, which crawls instead of swims, that has flat face and forward-looking eyes like human was spotted off Ambon Island, part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, by Indonesian divers. It uses its leg-like pectoral fins to burrow into crevices.

According to University of Washington expert Ted Pietsch, the strange creature could represent a new family of fishes.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Giant marine life found in New Zealand's Antarctic waters

Picture shown the giant starfish found in the Ross Sea. Fisheries scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles, 2-foot-wide starfish, large sea spiders and huge sea snails.

The survey was part of the International Polar Year program involving 23 countries in 11 voyages to survey marinelife and habitats around Antarctica. The program hopes to set benchmarks for determining the effects of global warming on Antarctica, researchers said.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

New species of salamander found in Costa Rica

This is probably one of the three new species of salamanderthat found in the pristine La Amistad National Park in Costa Rica. The colourful amphibians, cousins of the humble newt, were found during an expedition led by Dr Alex Monro, of the Natural History Museum, to the remote forest.