Discovery of Crocodile, Bat fossils...

National Geographic carried an interesting article about some discovered fossils of Crocodile, bird, sloth and bat species during an underwater cave dive in the Dominican Republic.

(the jutted out snout of the crocodile | image:nationalgeographic.com)



Read the full article by Brian Handwerk here...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110927-crocodile-fossils-found-underwater-cave/

The video :

Safeguarding the Children of our future!

Thankful by Josh Groban

There's so much to be thankful for!

Sri Lankan Wild life: New species of dolphin discovered ...

Sri Lankan Wild life: New species of dolphin discovered ...: New species of dolphin discovered Researchers hav...

Water Splashing event!!

20 Green Methods; in 20 minutes!

earth911.com carries an interesting post by Mary Mazzoni sharing 20 things you could do to save our planet. The ideas are simple yet very effective, ranging from opting for an unplugged party, taking care of your car, using your shades to using an iamgreen application on your smart phone.
Read the article here:
http://earth911.com/news/2011/08/31/20-more-green-things-in-20-minutes/

Volcanic Mud Bath ; Volcan del Totumo, Colombia

Some of you may remember Anderson Cooper's photo of himself covered in Mud, while on vacation! This is the video footage of his trip to Volcan del Totumo in Colombia, famous for the volcanic mud pool.

Also, I came across a very interesting article written for 'Intelligent Travel' of the National Geographic. You can read the post written by Alison Ince here
http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2010/03/08/colombia/

Kseniya Simonova... in action!

The lovely and talented Kseniya Simonova..performing her amazing art skills...! Added with brilliant curves, strokes and shading..all with sand, this Ukranian artist is definitely one of the kind.

Unite.For Children.

The Von Trapp Family Singers - Edelweiss

Biogas pilot project, Uganda | UNICEF

Malshan Photography: The Nut

Malshan Photography: The Nut

Tadaa!! The World's first 111 Gigapixel pic!

Received this in an email, today!

The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens.
It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 mega pixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes.
 
The converting of 102 GB raw Data by a computer with a main memory cache of 48 GB
and 16 processors took 94 hours.
 
The picture is the largest in the world. Zoom in to see any particular building/object

http://www.sevilla111.com/default_en.htm 

 

Oceans..A few facts

Largest Ocean :
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean covering one third of the Earth. At its widest point it stretches up to 19,800km, almost halfway round the world !

Smallest Ocean :
It's the Arctic Ocean covering about 14,056,000 sq. km.

Coldest Ocean :
The Arctic Ocean. Most of the year, it stays frozen & solid. In some places the ice can measure up to 1.5km thick. The Arctic is also dotted with thousands of icebergs.


Warmest Ocean :
The Indian Ocean is the warmest as well as the third largest ocean in the world. The temperature of the surface water can reach 35.6 degrees Centigrade!

(I did say a few, right? :) )

Reference:100 Questions and Answers ; The Sea and Sealife, Wikipedia
Images : kidsgeo.com

Liquid Cremation Machine.

Inventors create a liquid cremation machine

A St. Petersburg, Florida funeral home is installing a new machine that uses fluids instead of fire in the cremation process. (reported by WFLA's Josh Green)



 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44373234#44373234

The adventures of the Black Stallion!!

I used to LOVE this drama as a child.. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon the opening/intro on youtube!