This is the junction of Iguazú and Paraná rivers, where three countries have their borders: Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Crystal clear see-through caterpillar looks amazing
Meet Jewel Caterpillar, a member of Acraga coa moth species. Doesn’t it look amazing?
Eventually, this beautiful creature turns into this moth.
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“Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
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This is not photoshopped; it’s for real
When seeing this image for the first time, you would perhaps immediately identify it as ‘photoshopped’. But this tiny dragon-like creature is real. Glaucus atlanticus is a species of small-sized blue sea slug, described in Wikipedia as follows.
The normal size of this species is up to 3 cm. It is silvery grey on its dorsal side and dark and pale blue ventrally. It has dark blue stripes along the edge of its foot. It has a tapering body which is flattened and has six appendages which branch out into rayed cerata. Its radular teeth bear serrated teeth on their blades.
And this is the image Wikipedia gives for the creature.
A tree took the shape of a house to shelter itself from wind
In a coastal town in Denmark, there is a tree which took the shape of a house to shelter itself from wind. According to the photographer,
This old pink house is situated at the old dunes, a few hundred meters from the west coast, a very windy place were there isn’t much that can grow. So the tree can only grow where it has shelter.
I am not sure whether this tree was trimmed by the house owner, but in case it was not, this tree is a perfect case for Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory.
dead tree and the story of 20 photos in five years
It is the art of patience, inspiration and photography which gives life to a dead tree. Kevin Day has been photographing this tree for over 5 years on different days, through different seasons and in different lighting conditions. The result is the story of a dead tree in 20 shots as appears below.
Giant Bloodsuckers! Oldest Fleas Discovered
The most ancient fleas were five to 10 times the size of modern bloodsuckers.
These ancient bloodsuckers are the oldest fleas ever found, and the oldest example of bloodsucking parasites in the fossil record, study researcher André Nel of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris told LiveScience.
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These early fleas lacked the strong hindlegs of modern fleas, Nel said.
"Their biology and behavior was certainly different, more like that of a louse creeping among the fur and feathers of the hosts," said Nel, who, along with his colleagues, analyzed nine fossil specimens of the fleas discovered in outcrops in China.
The fleas lived in the Mesozoic era, a chunk of geologic time extending from 250 million years ago to 65 million years ago and includes the Jurassic period. They were giant compared with today's fleas, with one female specimen's body longer than 0.8 inches (2 cm), said study researcher Diying Huang, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Science in Nanjing, China. Modern fleas don't get much larger than 0.1 inches, or 3 mm, in length.
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The fleas' size and tough mouthparts would have made it easy for them to feast on large hosts — even dinosaurs.
"Their long siphonate dentate mouthparts may easily penetrate dinosaur skin," Huang told LiveScience.
The fossils, which reside in the collections of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, fill in some of the gaps of flea evolution, Nel said. The first fleas evolved from ancestors that fed on plant fluids. Some then evolved from plants to animals, becoming bloodsuckers. These parasites lost their wings and developed grasping legs to cling to fur and feathers.
At some point still not pinpointed in the fossil record, Nel said, fleas evolved amazingly strong hind legs, which can catapult them 50 to 100 times their body length.
The Jurassic bloodsuckers are detailed Wednesday (Feb. 29) online in the journal Nature.
source : http://news.discovery.com
A plant that tweets to you when it needs water!
How many times you have felt guilty because you forgot to water your plant and it went dry? How about your plant reminding you that it needs water? Well, that has been arranged now; it is called Botanicalls and comes as a DIY kit.Botanicalls Kits let plants reach out for human help! They offer a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates to your mobile phone. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love. It comes as a kit so that you can hone your soldering skills (or teach someone else) while you build a line of communication between you and your houseplant! You can see the status updates of @pothos on its tweet page.
The DIY kit comes pre-programmed, but you can customize your own messages. You only have to supply the plant, network connection, ethernet cable and power outlet. The end product is a leaf-shaped electronic chip with two metal prongs that go into the plant’s soil.
The DIY kit comes pre-programmed, but you can customize your own messages. You only have to supply the plant, network connection, ethernet cable and power outlet. The end product is a leaf-shaped electronic chip with two metal prongs that go into the plant’s soil.
