Caño Cristales is a river located in Northern Columbia, with a length of almost 100 km and a width of under 20 meters. If you look at it, you’d be tempted to think this is some sort of illusion or photographic trick, but you’d be wrong. It’s quite remote, and you can get there only by [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined Canada is the second largest country on the face of the Earth, but USA’s northern neighbor has a lot to brag about. Out of all the natural lakes in the world, more than 50 percent are situated in Canada. According to wikipedia, More than 60 percent of the [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
National Geographic captured perhaps the most complex tree crown ever to be caught on film. They had to “stitch” together 84 images in order to get it all to fit, and what a result it is! Definitely one of the most amazing pics I’ve seen. Michael Nichols took the picture, which you can find in [...]
Monday, January 11, 2010
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) published some quite awesome pictures showing that Antarctica isn’t the lifeless frozen wasteland most people believe it to be; ice fish, octopus, sea pigs, giant sea spiders, rare rays and gorgeous basket stars all thrive in the extreme temperatures in Antarctica’s waters. Well, thrive is perhaps a too strong word, [...]
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Every year, around this time of year, more than 100 million determined crabs take to the streets in a massive attempt to get to their spawning grounds as soon as possible; as a result, they literally flood the streets in Christmas island, covering the streets and forcing rangers to divert traffic and use some quite [...]
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Mother nature sure has some weird whims sometimes. In 15 minutes of vengeance filled chowing, this frog managed to eat the whole snake. Australian Wildlife Rescue Service volunteer Fay Paterson discussed these pictures taken by Ian Hamilton in Australia’s Daily Mercury . He explained that the snake in case was a non-venomous species who often eats [...]
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Boy 2009 passed quite quickly, but it didn’t go without a blast, that’s for sure ! I’m gonna show you some really amazing stuff that happened during 2009, most of which you probably have no idea of, and this is the first one from that series. 4th place (honorable mention): Mayon, Philippines It may have happened just [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
Yeah, that’s a lion trying to open a car door with it’s teeth; picture taken in Johannesburg, South Africa via The Telegraph
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Despite the fact that it’s the 2nd most common mineral in the Earth’s continental crust, quartz is a true wonder of nature. Composed of the two most common elements in our planet’s crust (oxygen and silicone), quartz fascinated both scientists and common people since ancient times. At a molecular level, it forms extremely complicated (and [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
First of all, it has to be said that this once common burial practice in Tibet is pretty hard to ‘digest’ for our ‘civilized’ world, and there’s a big chance you’ll find the pictures shocking. As adepts of Buddhism, Tibetans believe the single most important part of a person is its spirit, and after death, [...]
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