Sea Monster

was “the sea monster” ever living in the sea?

valley in southern Utah has a secret past that create vibrant paleontology experts. The fossil up to the surface because of erosion that took place millions of years the remains of ancient sea monster who used to swim in the ocean in the interior of the continent in North America.
Sea monster is plesiosaurus, giant reptile meat eater that lived during the dinosaurs. At the time, plesiosaurus live in the water environment and are on top predators.

Approximately 100 million years ago, North America riven by the sea in the land connecting what is now the gulf of Mexico and the arctic Ocean. National Monument Grand Staircase-Escalante in southern Utah, the area was filled with slopes and the beautiful valley, first became part of the west coast of the sea. Sediments from the sea in the North American Continent that condense into a layer of rock known as shale or Mowry shale Thermopolis. Sediment is rich with oil and save fossil ancient beings.

Wind and water erosion that formed the unique geological forms of the Grand Staircase also open the shale layers. Paleontology experts who explore the wild region of 1.7 million Acre (687 hectares) to find fossil remains of plesiosaurus and other ancient marine life in the shale. Fossil that helps give a picture of diversity of life that fill the sea and the dense guide how plesiosaurus life and death. (source: kompas)

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Pac Man Frogs

Where can you find "Pac Man" Frogs?

From the Amazon horned frog is very voracious. They will eat almost all before them through the primary forest in the rain-cavernous Amazon. This frog has been reported in the village: he bite people with his wide jaw and sharp teeth. To protect their feet and fingers, the population in the villages there, using the bot with a special shoe.

The aggressive nature and cause vulturine get horned frog frog nickname "Pac Man". Rounded a large consumer and width, length about 8 inches (20 centimeters) that can fill a small plate.

They hunt prey with a snarl, they move the body forward-backward to hide the body of them in the soft soil and the leaves fall in the primary forest. Only the eyes and horns disguise their similar looks from the rod surface. They lunge from behind the scrim, the mouth opens wide, to steal the victim is not aware of the danger ago swallow intact-intact. Insect, spider, other frogs, snakes, lizard, and small mammals are the main food is frogs. But sometimes they are voracious glutton: sometimes Pac Man frog found dead with a prey that is too large concern in their throat. (source : kompas)

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Sigiriya

Where is Sigiriya?

In the high plains in the north of Sri Lanka there is a granite stone at 500 feet (150 meters), higher than the surrounding forest. Solid red rock called "Lion Mountain" that dominates the landscape there.

Stone is a central concern in Sigiriya, the capital of King Kassapa I in the century-5. King of the castle be built on a stone that encircle the city in addition to the basic stone. Sigiriya well as terraced gardens and the irrigation channel detail, including the canal, the water under the container land, and water fountains.

Sigiriya other views are stunning from the giant stone lion, which was built in the bottom of one corner of the rock. A ladder to the top of the mountain was in between the lion and the paw to the mouth. Now the only remaining leg-foot and some of the first rung of the lion.

Approximately half way on the stone wall there is a mirror layer of shine and smooth. Wall is covered in graffiti of visitors who come to the location of the century to century, and 6-to-14. Many form of poetry that any posts and any posts, including the oldest in the Sinhalese language.

Nearly two dozen paintings from the walls of the remaining 500 original paintings that decorate the walls is a giant stone. Wall-painting is known as "The Maidens of the sky"-to show her feminine figure that many people believed is a reflection apsara (figures from heaven). Painting a wall is painted with a coloring agent mixed with wet clay and make the area was obtained international recognition for its natural beauty and the unique skills of the technical of he painters.

Sigiriya into a monastery after Kassapa Buddhists died, but eventually abandoned. That place has become debris in the year 1895 when the archeologists found the United Kingdom, HCP Bell.

Sigiriya in many parts of the restoration has been in place and the hundreds of thousands of people visit each year. Sigiriya made Cultural Heritage by the United Nations in 1982. (source : kompas)

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Sargasso Sea

Where is location of Sargasso Sea?

In 1492, in the first voyage to the new world, Christopher Columbus sailed to the waters filled with seaweed, fish, turtles, and crabs. Tame marine life that he observed and the number of birds around the lake convince the traveler that he was near land.

Columbus appeared to be disappointed. They are still many weeks before meet the land: Columbus has sailed through the Sargasso Sea. "Sea" is actually more accurately referred to as the sea currents as revolve or at least point vortex center. Sargasso Sea was formed by water flow system similar ring that rotates clockwise in the Atlantic Ocean from the West Indies to the Canary Islands. Part of the ring in calm that many islands seaweed that float, called sargassum, a place of shelter diverse wild life.

Flow ring Sargasso Sea supply nutrition to the Oasis of the seas. Plankton and seaweed growing together to create a place to eat at the feast stir in the flow that is not used by the sea, fish, turtles and other sea creatures as a place to raise children and take refuge predator.

Many seamen from early times it is the worry sargassum will twist and tangle their ship, an incorrect understanding of the Sargasso Sea gives the position as the mystical home of the monster and the cow. Seaweed there is not thick enough to cause dangerous, but a reputation as a marine in the mysterious sea still survive because of this location in the heart of Bermuda Triangle. (source : kompas)

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Roof of Africa

Where is 'Roof of Africa'?


Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, often referred to as 'roof of Africa'. With the high peak that reaches 19,330 feet (5,892 meters), the peak that has beautiful scenery is the highest point on the continent. However, another area which is located more to the north and sometimes also get the same surname.

Ethiopian plateau in the north end of the Great Rift Valley. Plateau region is formed night altitude Africa region, the average is located at an altitude of 5,000 feet (1,500 meters).

Millions of years ago, when the valley was first formed, he cut across the highlands of Ethiopia into two large. The western sea Semien Mountains including Ras Dashen peak with a height 15,158 feet (4,620 meters) and is the highest peak in Ethiopia. Lake Tana, source of water for the Blue Nile River, also located there. Most of the southeast is the Bale Mountains.

Great Rift Valley aft 3500 miles (5600 kilometers) from the Red Sea to the south to Mozambique. The establishment of a separate Arab Africa and the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. As the geology of the active, plates Africa, Somalia and Arabia are still be far from one another. If this division continues to occur, plates Somalia may finally be separated from Africa and the rift that will be the sea. (source : kompas)

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Temple of Heaven

Where is 'Temple of Heaven' ?

Culture and history of China is an integral part of the Beijing summer Olympics. One of the many architectural and religious property in the capital city of China is the "Temple of Heaven."

Buildings, roads, altars, and park in the temple complex that holds the important role of dynasties in ancient China. Community known as China Tiantan, a complex built in the year 1400 during Ming Dynasty. 22 Kaiser make offerings on the site as part of their divine role as a leader and leader of a spiritual empire.

The extent of complex 680 Acre (275 hectares), over twice the size of City. Surrounded by walls of long, curved at one end of heaven existed and shaped square at front as the representative of the world, the Temple of Heaven is a site of worship in the world.

In the modern era, Tiantan park has been changed to become a favorite for locals and visitors. Temple complex that was opened to the public the first time in 1912, set in 1998 as World Heritage. Structure is the most incredible Altar round, Golf Heaven Empire, and the Prayer Room for Good Harvest. (source : kompas)

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Polar bear

Is the Polar bear going to extinct?

Polar bear is one of the largest predators on earth. A strong swimmer and hunters and sinuous single, marvelous creature that is adapting well to the arctic life. However, with so many amazing nature, polar bears may be in the extinction.

During the last 30 years, the effect global warming has caused a decrease in the number of polar sea ice in the summer between 15% to 20%. Polar bears use the ice in the arctic as a place to breed, raise their children, and hunt their primary food: seals. The ice melt in the polar ice is forming on the autumn and the ice melting earlier in spring. This cut the time to look for bears to eat and multiply.

Polar bears accumulate most of the fat body each spring with the seals that eat the amount of decrease in line with the declining number of polar ice. As a result, polar bears eat less and to 10% more compared with the lean 20 years ago. The ability of children through the polar bear the first year of life they come down from 65% in the annual 1980s to only 43% at this time.

This, plus other factors, encourage Fish and Wildlife Service United States ask that polar bears are included in category "threatened extinction" under the Act endangered species is the U.S.. If the polar bear gets official status of "threatened", they can become important icons in the global warming. (source : kompas)

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Sinker Hole

Where is the 'Sinker Hole "?

A large swath in the Bering Sea is located in the border areas between the United States and Russia. A small portion of the sea outside the boundaries both in the State. "Hole" that forms is not uniform are called pit sinker.

Hole in the sinker is the area that is one of the regions in the world's most rich fish, especially Alaska fish Pollock. Value of the fishing industry in the Bering Sea Pollock each year worth 1 billion U.S. dollars. Pollock fish meat is used for bread layer, steak frozen fish, imitation crab meat, and snack fish and potatoes.

In the year 1984, commercial trawl tiger from six countries taking 1.45 million metric tons of Pollock hole sinker. During the next decades the fishing industry Pollock to take the fish over the limit and back-up band is nearly at sea can not be restored again in 1994.

Situation that encourages the birth of the Convention on Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources. Representatives from China, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Korea, the U.S. and meet every year to set the size of the harvest Pollock at sinker hole and manage backup Pollock fish in there.

Their efforts to start bringing results. 2008 catch limit of 800,000 metric tons, lower than the commercial catch and the desired state convention participants. But they can catch the number of projects increased to 1.2 million metric tons in 2010. (source : kompas)

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