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The Earth by Floppyjacky
About sharks: sharks swam in the ocean 450 million years ago, 220 million years before the age of dinosaurs even began there are around 375 species of sharks, sharks are found all over the world,



What lives in the ocean:
Where does grass grow under water? Sea grass grows in shallow waters and is the only ocean plant with flowers in the ocean in warm waters dugongs graze on it.

Which fish uses a rod to catch fish? The angler fish has a long spine on its head to attract prey- like someone with a fishing rod. How do dolphins stand up?: A dolphin’s tail is really strong it can even lift itself up with its tail.


Why do crabs run sideways?:crabs have their skeletons on the outside, as a hard shell that covers the bodies animals like that have exoskeletons.

The world of endangered animals


Tigers:The tiger Is classified as a carnivorous animal and Is a member of the Felidae family.



Panda’s:The panda is classified as a carnivorous animal and is a member of the procyonidae family the male stands up five feet tall , and weighs up to 265 pounds.




The eastern barred bandicoot is one of Victoria’s most endangered species of animals it was formerly widespread throughout the grass lands and grassy wood lands of western Victoria.



Tasmanian devils:A long time a go the aborigines thought the sound of a Tasmanian devil was the screeches of a devil but later on they discovered it was an animal.A tassie devil is a very powerful creature.



Echidnas: Echidnas are mammals they have many pointy spines to poke and it could turn into a ball to move quickly and escape from prey it also digs a burrow and it eats insects.

Did you know that the regal horned lizard scares off predators with a strange weapon- its owen blood. it uses muscles to burst tiny blood vessels in and around its eyes it can squirt a stream of blood up to 1m(3 ft)to frighten its attacker.

Wonders of the
World

There are many wonders in the world but I am not talking only about the seven wonders I mean structures built long ago here are a few I chose a long with a few others.


1.First the pyramids that the Egyptians built. The pyramids were used for the pharos to bury themselves in with lots of the pharos possessions.



2.the great wall of china was built by Qin Shi Huangdi the first emperor of china it was built over 2 thousand years ago.

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i like dogs cause most of our pets are dogs so i'm close to all of it and i like birds too cause we have them too and i like dolphins too and seal lions and tigers,lions,bats hehehe sorry if it's too many

Big cats exist in an entirely separate world from their relatives, the domesticated house cat. Although all cats fall under the Felidae family, members of the Panthera genus—which includes lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards—are known for their speed, sound, and predatory nature.

The ferocious side of big cats—embodied by the mighty roar of a lion—is offset by their natural grace and swift pace. The cheetah can run at the breakneck speed of 70 miles an hour (113 kilometers an hour), with just one foot touching the ground per stride. Snow leopards have the ability to jump well over 50 feet (15 meters) in a single leap, and other leopards can easily scale trees.

Unlike their indoor relatives, who purr when happy or sad, members of the Panthera genus can roar, thanks to thick vocal cords and a flexible larynx that produces a roaring sound when the cats exhale. Cheetahs are the exception to the rule, whining or growling when afraid. Adult lions, whose roar can be heard up to five miles (eight kilometers) away, are known by their tails, which end in a distinctive tuft of hair.

Big cats are currently threatened due to poaching and habitat destruction. The lion, now confined to Africa and selected parts of India, has been classified as vulnerable because of a loss of habitat and inbreeding, which leads to decreased genetic diversity. Also in danger are tigers, snow leopards, and Amur leopards, although cheetahs and jaguars are not out of harm’s way.

Iberian Lynx

With a population of just 84 to 143 adults in isolated pockets of Spain and Portugal, the Iberian lynx is classified as "critically endangered" on the 2008 Red List.

The lynx depends on rabbits for more than 80 percent of its diet. But as European rabbit populations continue to decline due to disease, so do lynx.

Accidental deaths due to road traffic and snares set for rabbits--along with disease, illegal shooting, and increasingly fragmented habitat--are also contributing to lynx declines. —Photograph by O. Alamany and E. Vicens/Corbis

Tasmanian Devil

Not considered a conservation concern on the previous list, Australia's Tasmanian devils have seen their numbers drop by more than 60 percent over the past ten years due to a fatal, infectious facial cancer.

(Related news: "Tasmanian Devils Named Endangered Species" [May 21, 2008].)

The devil is now listed as endangered on the 2008 Red List. Uninfected populations are being isolated to aid in disease management and future repopulation efforts. —Photograph by Ian Waldie/Getty Images

Caspian Seal

Once thought to have numbered more than a million, the Caspian seal population has dropped by about 90 percent over the past hundred years, earning it a shift from "vulnerable" to "endangered" on the 2008 Red List, released in October.

The seal lives in the Caspian Sea, an enclosed body of water that borders Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The species has been affected by disease, increasing pollution, and accidental deaths due to fishing nets. —Photograph by Simon Goodman/University of Leeds/Caspian International Seal Survey/courtesy IUCN

Rameshwaram Parachute Spider

Restricted to a handful of plantations on the island of Rameshwaram and the nearby mainland of India, the Rameshwaram parachute spider is a critically endangered tarantula on the 2008 Red List of Threatened Species.

The spider likely numbers fewer than 500 individuals, as its woodland habitat is being destroyed as plantations are converted into tourist destinations.

In the very beginning of earth's history, this planet was a giant, red hot, roiling, boiling sea of molten rock - a magma ocean. The heat had been generated by the repeated high speed collisions of much smaller bodies of space rocks that continually clumped together as they collided to form this planet. As the collisions tapered off the earth began to cool, forming a thin crust on its surface. As the cooling continued, water vapor began to escape and condense in the earth's early atmosphere. Clouds formed and storms raged, raining more and more water down on the primitive earth, cooling the surface further until it was flooded with water, forming the seas.

It is theorized that the true age of the earth is about 4.6 billion years old, formed at about the same time as the rest of our solar system. The oldest rocks geologists have been able to find are 3.9 billion years old. Using radiometric dating methods to determine the age of rocks means scientists have to rely on when the rock was initially formed (as in - when its internal minerals first cooled). In the infancy of our home planet the entire earth was molten (melted) rock - a magma ocean.

Since we can only measure as far back in time as we had solid rock on this planet, we are limited in how we can measure the real age of the earth. Due to the forces of plate tectonics, our planet is also a very dynamic one; new mountains forming, old ones wearing down, volcanoes melting and reshaping new crust. The continual changing and reshaping of the earth's surface that involves the melting down and reconstructing of old rock has pretty much eliminated most of the original rocks that came with earth when it was newly formed. So the age is a theoretical age.

When Did Life on Earth Begin?

Scientists are still trying to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of earth: When did "life" first appear and how did it happen? It is estimated that the first life forms on earth were primitive, one-celled creatures that appeared about 3 billion years ago. That's pretty much all there was for about the next two billion years. Then suddenly those single celled organisms began to evolve into multicellular organisms. Then an unprecedented profusion of life in incredibly complex forms began to fill the oceans. Some crawled from the seas and took residence on land, perhaps to escape predators in the ocean. A cascading chain of new and increasingly differentiated forms of life appeared all over the planet, only to be virtually annihilated by an unexplained mass extinction. It would be the first of several mass extinctions in Earth's history.
Where do Gemstones come from?

Scientists have been looking increasingly to space to explain these mass extinctions that have been happening almost like clockwork since the beginning of "living" time. Perhaps we've been getting periodically belted by more space rocks (ie. asteroids), or the collision of neutron stars happening too close for comfort? Each time a mass extinction occurred, life found a way to come back from the brink. Life has tenaciously clung to this small blue planet for the last three billion years. Scientists are finding new cues as to how life first began on earth in some really interesting places - the deep ocean.

Checking the Fossil Record

Geologic History of Earth
What is Plate Tectonics?
Extreme Weather
The Moon
The Sun
Solar System

Scientists have studied rocks using radiometric dating methods to determine the age of earth. Another really cool thing they've found in rocks that tells us more about the story of earth's past are the remains of living creatures that have been embedded in the rocks for all time. We call these fossils. It has been the careful study of earth's fossil record that has revealed the exciting picture about the kinds of creatures that once roamed this planet. Fossilized skeletons of enormous creatures with huge claws and teeth, ancient ancestors of modern day species (such as sharks) that have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years, and prehistoric jungles lush with plant life, all point to a profusion of life and a variety of species that continues to populate the earth, even in the face of periodic mass extinctions.

By studying the fossil record scientists have determined that the earth has experienced very different climates in the past. In fact, general climactic conditions, as well as existing species, are used to define distinct geologic time periods in earth's history. For example, periodic warming of the earth - during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods - created a profusion of plant and animal life that left behind generous organic materials from their decay. These layers of organic material built up over millions of years undisturbed. They were eventually covered by younger, overlying sediment and compressed, giving us fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum and natural gas.

Alternately, the earth's climate has also experienced periods of extremely cold weather for such prolonged periods that much of the surface was covered in thick sheets of ice. These periods of geologic time are called ice ages and the earth has had several in its history. Entire species of warmer-climate species died out during these time periods, giving rise to entirely new species of living things which could tolerate and survive in the extremely cold climate. Believe it or not, humans were around during the last ice age - the Holocene (about 11,500 years ago) - and we managed to survive. Creatures like the Woolly Mammoth - a distant relative of modern-day elephants - did not.

Read about a really exciting recent find of a perfectly-preserved, frozen Woolly Mammoth! This was a particularly exciting find because it wasn't a fossil that scientists found, but actual tissue, which still has its DNA record intact.

Also, read more about the Ice Man - another frozen tissue sample of a human being who was frozen into the high mountains of France. He was just recently discovered as thousands of years of ice pack have finally melted from around his body.

Our solar system consists of an average star we call the Sun, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. It includes: the satellites of the planets; numerous comets, asteroids, and meteoroids; and the interplanetary medium. The Sun is the richest source of electromagnetic energy (mostly in the form of heat and light) in the solar system. The Sun's nearest known stellar neighbor is a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.3 light years away. The whole solar system, together with the local stars visible on a clear night, orbits the center of our home galaxy, a spiral disk of 200 billion stars we call the Milky Way. The Milky Way has two small galaxies orbiting it nearby, which are visible from the southern hemisphere. They are called the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. The nearest large galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way but is 4 times as massive and is 2 million light years away. Our galaxy, one of billions of galaxies known, is traveling through intergalactic space.

The planets, most of the satellites of the planets and the asteroids revolve around the Sun in the same direction, in nearly circular orbits. When looking down from above the Sun's north pole, the planets orbit in a counter-clockwise direction. The planets orbit the Sun in or near the same plane, called the ecliptic. Pluto is a special case in that its orbit is the most highly inclined (18 degrees) and the most highly elliptical of all the planets. Because of this, for part of its orbit, Pluto is closer to the Sun than is Neptune. The axis of rotation for most of the planets is nearly perpendicular to the ecliptic. The exceptions are Uranus and Pluto, which are tipped on their sides.
Composition Of The Solar System
The Sun contains 99.85% of all the matter in the Solar System. The planets, which condensed out of the same disk of material that formed the Sun, contain only 0.135% of the mass of the solar system. Jupiter contains more than twice the matter of all the other planets combined. Satellites of the planets, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and the interplanetary medium constitute the remaining 0.015%. The following table is a list of the mass distribution within our Solar System.

* Sun: 99.85%
* Planets: 0.135%
* Comets: 0.01% ?
* Satellites: 0.00005%
* Minor Planets: 0.0000002% ?
* Meteoroids: 0.0000001% ?
* Interplanetary Medium: 0.0000001% ?

Interplanetary Space
Nearly all the solar system by volume appears to be an empty void. Far from being nothingness, this vacuum of "space" comprises the interplanetary medium. It includes various forms of energy and at least two material components: interplanetary dust and interplanetary gas. Interplanetary dust consists of microscopic solid particles. Interplanetary gas is a tenuous flow of gas and charged particles, mostly protons and electrons -- plasma -- which stream from the Sun, called the solar wind.

Solar wind diagram

The solar wind can be measured by spacecraft, and it has a large effect on comet tails. It also has a measurable effect on the motion of spacecraft. The speed of the solar wind is about 400 kilometers (250 miles) per second in the vicinity of Earth's orbit. The point at which the solar wind meets the interstellar medium, which is the "solar" wind from other stars, is called the heliopause. It is a boundary theorized to be roughly circular or teardrop-shaped, marking the edge of the Sun's influence perhaps 100 AU from the Sun. The space within the boundary of the heliopause, containing the Sun and solar system, is referred to as the heliosphere.

The solar magnetic field extends outward into interplanetary space; it can be measured on Earth and by spacecraft. The solar magnetic field is the dominating magnetic field throughout the interplanetary regions of the solar system, except in the immediate environment of planets which have their own magnetic fields.
Terrestrial Planets The Terrestrial Planets
The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like the Earth's. The planets, Venus, Earth, and Mars have significant atmospheres while Mercury has almost none. The following diagram shows the approximate distance of the terrestrial planets to the Sun.

Inner Planets

Jovian Planets The Jovian Planets
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as the Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets, because they are all gigantic compared with Earth, and they have a gaseous nature like Jupiter's. The Jovian planets are also referred to as the gas giants, although some or all of them might have small solid cores. The following diagram shows the approximate distance of the Jovian planets to the Sun.

Outer Planets

Solar System Animation

* Formation of the Solar System.

Views of the Solar System

Milky Way Our Milkyway Galaxy
This image of our galaxy, the Milky Way, was taken with NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer's (COBE) Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE). This never-before-seen view shows the Milky Way from an edge-on perspective with the galactic north pole at the top, the south pole at the bottom and the galactic center at the center. The picture combines images obtained at several near-infrared wavelengths. Stars within our galaxy are the dominant source of light at these wavelengths. Even though our solar system is part of the Milky Way, the view looks distant because most of the light comes from the population of stars that are closer to the galactic center than our own Sun. (Courtesy NASA)

Our Milky Way Gets a Makeover Our Milky Way Gets a Makeover
Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms.

This artist's concept illustrates the new view of the Milky Way, along with other findings presented at the 212th American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis, Mo. The galaxy's two major arms (Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus) can be seen attached to the ends of a thick central bar, while the two now-demoted minor arms (Norma and Sagittarius) are less distinct and located between the major arms. The major arms consist of the highest densities of both young and old stars; the minor arms are primarily filled with gas and pockets of star-forming activity.

The artist's concept also includes a new spiral arm, called the "Far-3 kiloparsec arm," discovered via a radio-telescope survey of gas in the Milky Way. This arm is shorter than the two major arms and lies along the bar of the galaxy.

Our sun lies near a small, partial arm called the Orion Arm, or Orion Spur, located between the Sagittarius and Perseus arms. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Andromeda Spiral Galaxy, NGC 4414
The majestic galaxy, NGC 4414, is located 60 million light-years away. Like the Milky Way, NGC 4414 is a giant spiral-shaped disk of stars, with a bulbous central hub of older yellow and red stars. The outer spiral arms are considerably bluer due to ongoing formation of young, blue stars, the brightest of which can be seen individually at the high resolution provided by the Hubble camera. The arms are also very rich in clouds of interstellar dust, seen as dark patches and streaks silhouetted against the starlight. (Courtesy NASA/STSCI)

Planet Obliquity Obliquity of the Eight Planets
This illustration shows the obliquity of the eight planets. Obliquity is the angle between a planet's equatorial plane and its orbital plane. By International Astronomical Union (IAU) convention, a planet's north pole lies above the ecliptic plane. By this convention, Venus, Uranus, and Pluto have a retrograde rotation, or a rotation that is in the opposite direction from the other planets. (Copyright 2008 by Calvin J. Hamilton)

Solar System The Solar System
During the past three decades a myriad of space explorers have escaped the confines of planet Earth and have set out to discover our planetary neighbors. This picture shows the Sun and all nine planets of the solar system as seen by the space explorers. Starting at the top-left corner is the Sun followed by the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (Copyright 1998 by Calvin J. Hamilton)

Solar System Sun and Planets
This image shows the Sun and nine planets approximately to scale. The order of these bodies are: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (Copyright Calvin J. Hamilton)

Jovian Planets Jovian Planets
This image shows the Jovian planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune approximately to scale. The Jovian planets are named because of their gigantic Jupiter-like appearance. (Copyright Calvin J. Hamilton)

Largest moons and smallest planets The Largest Moons and Smallest Planets
This image shows the relative sizes of the largest moons and the smallest planets in the solarsystem. The largest satellites pictured in this image are: Ganymede (5262 km), Titan (5150 km), Callisto (4806 km), Io (3642 km), the Moon (3476 km), Europa (3138 km), Triton (2706 km), and Titania (1580 km). Both Ganymede and Titan are larger than planet Mercury followed by Io, the Moon, Europa, and Triton which are larger than the planet Pluto. (Copyright Calvin J. Hamilton)

Solar System Diagram of Portrait Frames
On February 14, 1990, the cameras of Voyager 1 pointed back toward the Sun and took a series of pictures of the Sun and the planets, making the first ever "portrait" of our solar system as seen from the outside. This image is a diagram of how the frames for the solar system portrait were taken. (Courtesy NASA/JPL)

Solar System All Frames from the Family Portrait
This image shows the series of pictures of the Sun and the planets taken on February 14, 1990, for the solar system family portrait as seen from the outside. In the course of taking this mosaic consisting of a total of 60 frames, Voyager 1 made several images of the inner solar system from a distance of approximately 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) and about 32° above the ecliptic plane. Thirty-nine wide angle frames link together six of the planets of our solar system in this mosaic. Outermost Neptune is 30 times further from the Sun than Earth. Our Sun is seen as the bright object in the center of the circle of frames. The insets show the planets magnified many times. (Courtesy NASA/JPL)

Solar System Portrait of the Solar System
These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever "portrait" of the solar system taken by Voyager 1, which was more than 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) from Earth and about 32° above the ecliptic. Mercury is too close to the Sun to be seen. Mars was not detectable by the Voyager cameras due to scattered sunlight in the optics, and Pluto was not included in the mosaic because of its small size and distance from the Sun. These blown-up images, left to right and top to bottom are Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Courtesy NASA/JPL)

Sun and Planet Summary

The following table lists statistical information for the Sun and planets:

Distance
(AU) Radius
(Earth's) Mass
(Earth's) Rotation
(Earth's) # Moons Orbital
Inclination Orbital
Eccentricity Obliquity Density
(g/cm3)
Sun 0 109 332,800 25-36* 9 --- --- --- 1.410
Mercury 0.39 0.38 0.05 58.8 0 7 0.2056 0.1° 5.43
Venus 0.72 0.95 0.89 244 0 3.394 0.0068 177.4° 5.25
Earth 1.0 1.00 1.00 1.00 1 0.000 0.0167 23.45° 5.52
Mars 1.5 0.53 0.11 1.029 2 1.850 0.0934 25.19° 3.95
Jupiter 5.2 11 318 0.411 16 1.308 0.0483 3.12° 1.33
Saturn 9.5 9 95 0.428 18 2.488 0.0560 26.73° 0.69
Uranus 19.2 4 17 0.748 15 0.774 0.0461 97.86° 1.29
Neptune 30.1 4 17 0.802 8 1.774 0.0097 29.56° 1.64
Pluto 39.5 0.18 0.002 0.267 1 17.15 0.2482 119.6° 2.03

* The Sun's period of rotation at the surface varies from approximately 25 days at the equator to 36 days at the poles. Deep down, below the convective zone, everything appears to rotate with a period of 27 days.

Look down beneath your feet. Have you ever wondered what you’re really standing on? What is the Earth made of?

If you could take the entire planet, sort it out into its various elements into piles, you’d have the following: 32% iron, 30% oxygen, 15% silicon, 14% magnesium, 3% sulfur, 2% nickel, and then much smaller piles of calcium, aluminum, and other trace elements.

Obviously, we don’t breath an iron atmosphere or swim in oceans of silicon. The elements of Earth are layered in the planet.

We live on the outermost layer of Earth, called the crust. This varies in depth between 5 and 75 km. It’s mostly made of silicates, with a tremendous amount of oxygen mixed in. In fact, 47% of the Earth’s crust is oxygen. The thickest parts of the crust are under the continents, and the thinnest parts are underneath the oceans.

Beneath this crust is the mantle, which goes down to a depth of 2890 km. It’s the largest layer on Earth, and mostly consists of silicate rocks rich in iron and magnesium. Volcanoes are places where this mantle wells up through the crust.

Below the mantle is the core, which is broken up into two parts: a solid inner core with a radius of 1,220 km, and then a liquid outer core that goes out to a radius of 3,400 km. Scientists think that the core consists mostly of iron (80%), which pulled together into the middle of the planet during the formation of the Earth, 4.5 billion years ago.

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Tiger
Name: Tiger, Panthera tigris

Description: Large ferocious feline mammal. Orange-fawn coat with irregularly crossed black stripes, white belly.

Location: Asia; India, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Siberia.

Special Features:
# Grow up to 10 feet in length
# Can weigh over 500 pounds
# No mane
# Tail is ringed with black
# Can eat up to 40 pounds of meat in a day
# Adult tigers are solitary
# Largest of all living cats
# Endangered species

Diet: Carnivorous eating deer, pig, wild cattle.

Neat Fact: Only 1 in 4 tiger cubs from white parents are born white.

Around the world, in places as diverse as Homestead, Florida and Yonaguni, Japan stand monuments and ruins whose origins are shrouded in mystery. Nobody knows exactly why Stonehenge was built, how a set of manmade ruins came to be submerged deep in the ocean or who commissioned a giant carved granite set of post-apocalyptic instructions for rebuilding society on a remote hill in Georgia.

Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse

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(images via: Wired)

On a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia stands one of the world’s most bizarre and mysterious monuments. But it wasn’t created during ancient times. Known as the ‘Georgia Guidestones’, this stone structure of five 16-feet-tall, 20-ton slabs of polished granite is inscribed in eight languages – including Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Hindi and Swahili - with instructions for dazed post-apocalyptic survivors attempting to rebuild civilization. It’s oriented to track the sun’s east-west migration year-round, and has holes that allow gazers to locate the North Star. The Georgia Guidestones were commissioned by an anonymous group, whose identity remains a mystery.
Lake Michigan Stonehenge

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(image via: io9)

A group of researchers using sonar to look for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan got quite a surprise when they found what appears to be an ancient Stonehenge-like structure 40 feet beneath the surface of the water. Some of the stones are arranged in a circle and one appears to show carvings of a mastodon. The formation could be as much as 10,000 years old, which is coincident with the post-Ice Age presence of both humans and mastodons in the area. Michigan already has petroglyph sites and standing stones.
Underwater Ruins in Japan

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(images via: Hottnez)

On the southern coast of Yonaguni, Japan, lie submerged ruins estimated to be around 8,000 years old. Though some people believed that it was carved by geographic phenomena, it’s now confirmed to be man-made as the intricate stairways, carvings and right angles suggest. It was discovered in 1995 by a sport diver who strayed too far off the Okinawa shore with a camera in hand.
Submerged Wonders of Alexandria, Egypt

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(images via: WebUrbanist)

From WebUrbanist: “Off the shores of Alexandria, the city of Alexander the Great, lie what are believed to be the ruins of the royal quarters of Cleopatra. It is believed that earthquakes over 1,500 years ago were responsible for casting this into the sea, along with artifacts, statues and other parts of Cleopatra’s palace. The city of Alexandria even plans to offer underwater tours of this wonder.”
The Mysterious Stones of Baalbek

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(images via: National Geographic)

The largest Roman temple ever constructed stands in ruins not in Greece or Rome, but in Baalbek, Lebanon. The temple was destroyed under Byzantine Emperor Theodosius but 6 of its original 54 columns still stand. Despite their beauty, the ruins at Baalbek have rarely been visited during recent decades due to war, but luckily this majestic archeological site has escaped harm. No one knows what made this site so special to the Romans, prompting them to quarry, move and assemble so many stone blocks.
Three Buried Ancient Megalithic Stone Circles

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(images via: Environmental Graffiti)

In southern Turkey, just north of the border with Syria, are three megalithic stone circles several thousand years older than the “first” stone circle built at Stonehenge. Strangely, these ancient stone circles were built by a hunter-gatherer society. It had previously been believed that the workforce required to construct a megalithic stone circle couldn’t be organized until human society reached the village stage of development. The three stone circles at Göbekli Tepe were deliberately buried for reasons unknown. Some people believe that Göbekli Tepe and the surrounding region were the historical basis behind the biblical Garden of Eden.
Easter Island

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(images via: Wikipedia)

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua, is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, most famous for its monumental statues which were created by the Rapanui people. The statues, called moai, were part of the ancestral worship of the island’s settlers and were carved between 1250 and 1500 CE. The heaviest moai erected weighs 86 tons, illustrating how great a feat it was for the Rapanui to have created and moved them. Nearly half of all remaining moai are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were moved to stone platforms around the island’s perimeter.
Stonehenge

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(image via: witcombe.sbc.edu)

Perhaps the world’s best known monument is Stonehenge, located in the English county of Wiltshire. It’s composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and is believed to have been built around 2500 BC but has been revised and remodeled over a period of more than 1400 years. Though theories and speculation abound, no one knows what the original purpose of the prehistoric monument was and it remains one of the earth’s greatest mysteries.
Machu Picchu

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(images via: Rediscover Machu Picchu)

Machu Picchu is the most well-preserved city of the Inca empire, hidden in the Peruvian Andes high on a steep mountain with a flattened top, a location that helped it escape notice by Spanish conquistadors. It was forgotten for centuries by the outside world, and re-discovered by archeologist Hiram Bingham in 1911. The stones of this city fit together so tightly a knife blade can’t fit between them. Modern research suggests that Machu Picchu was built around 1450 CE as a retreat by and for the Inca ruler Pachacuti and that it was actually relatively small by Inca standards.
Great Zimbabwe Ruins

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(images via: 10-us)

Few people know that the modern-day African country of Zimbabwe was actually named after stone ruins that lie all over the countryside. The ‘Great Zimbabwe Ruins’ are some of the oldest and largest structures located in Southern Africa and at its peak, the ruins of Great Zimbabwe are estimated to have housed as many as 18,000 inhabitants. The Great Zimbabwe ruins span 1,800 acres and were constructed starting in the 11th century without the use for mortar. No one knows for sure why the site was eventually abandoned.
Peru’s Chavín de Huantar Ruins

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(images via: EcoWorldly)

While not as famous as the ruins at Machu Picchu, the Chavín de Huantar Ruins of Peru are also a fascinating World Heritage Site containing ruins and artifacts originally constructed by the Chavín, a pre-Inca culture, around 900 BC. The site served as a gathering place for people in the area to assemble and worship. It’s unclear why the Chavín culture disappeared, though some believe that the Chavín de Huantar ruins offer clues as to why some civilizations vanish. Most theories about the Chavín center on difficult environmental conditions including earthquakes, while others involve power struggles with other civilizations in the same region.
Coral Castle, Monument to Lost Love

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How did one five-foot-tall, 100-pound man build an intricate rock garden using pieces of coral that weighed several tons each? Coral Castle, in Homestead, Florida, was Latvian immigrant Ed Leedskalnin’s monument to a lost love. He began building it in 1923 after being jilted by his fiance in Latvia just days before their wedding, and dedicated his life to completing it. Construction continued even after his death in 1951. Experts are puzzled as to how Leedskalnin, who had only a fourth-grade education, could have built Coral Castle by himself. One engineer claims that even Albert Einstein couldn’t figure it out.

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101 Tiger Facts



1. Tigers are the largest of the big cats.
2. Wild tigers are at the very top of the food chain.
3. There were originally eight subspecies of tiger, the
Javan, the Bali, the Caspian, the Indochinese, the
Sumatran, the Bengal, the Siberian, and the South
China tiger.
4. Unbelievably three of the eight subspecies are now
extinct. The Bali tiger met its demise in the 1940's,
the Caspian in the 1970's and the Javan in the 1980's.
(Yes you read that right--the 1980's!)
5. The latin names for the subspecies are:
pantheris tigris amoyensis The South China tiger
pantheris tigris altaicia The Amur (Siberian) tiger
pantheris tigris sumatrae The Sumatran tiger
pantheris tigris corbetti The Indochinese tiger
pantheris tigris tigris The Bengal tiger
pantheris tigris balica The Bali tiger
pantheris tigris virgata The Caspina tiger
pantheris tigris sondaica The Javan tiger
6. The South China tiger is believed to be the antecedent of
all tigers.

7. The tiger is the most endangered species of big cat. Of
the remaining tiger subspecies the South China tiger is
the most critically endangered with only around sixty
living in Chinese zoos and approximately twenty in the
wild (although none have been spotted for over twenty
years). This puts this subspecies at the very top of the
endangered species list.
8. Wild tigers do not live in Africa, they are spread out
across Asia and are thought to have originated from
Southern China.
9. A captive tiger can live up to twenty years, while a wild
tiger can expect to live ten to fifteen years.
10. Tigers are an umbrella species, which means to save the
wild tiger we must also commit to saving its habitat
and prey.

11. Due to the cold winters of Southern Russia and
Northern China the Siberian tiger is the largest of
the subspecies with an average length of 9ft 8' and
an average weight of 540 pounds, it has the thickest
fur and roams the largest territories.
12. The Bengal tiger is found in India and around the
Nepal/China border, it is the second largest of the
subspecies weighing in at around 480 pounds,
and is 9ft 5' long (average).
13. The Indochinese tiger is found across most of Southeast
Asia, it is 8ft 8' long and weighs in at 380 pounds
(average).
14. The South China tiger is found only in Southern China,
it is 8ft 1' long and weighs in at 336 pounds (average).
15. The Sumatran tiger is the smallest remaining
subspecies, with an average length of 7ft 8' and a
weight of 250 pounds, this is due to the fact that its
small territories are restricted to the Islands of
Sumatra.
16. The heaviest recorded tiger was a Siberian weighing in
at an amazing 1,025 pounds.
17. The Bengal tiger has the largest population with around
3000. Next is the Indochinese with approximately
1000-1500, then the Sumatran with 500-1000, then the
Siberian with 230-400 and last and unfortunately least
the South China tiger with around 60-80.
18. It is impossible to count how many tigers are left in the
wild but experts estimate there to be less than 6000.
19. The tigers saliva is antiseptic and comes in handy for
cleaning their wounds.
20. An adult wild tiger is a solitary animal and will establish
its own territory, which can cover over 100 square
miles.
21. A tiger marks its territory by spraying surrounding
trees and bushes with urine, dropping prominently
placed scat, and leaving deep scratch marks on tree
trunks.
22. In the scent of the tigers urine and scat is a code which
can only be deciphered by other wild tigers. The
message not only acts as a warning to trespasses, but
will also supply all the information needed for a would
be mate.
23. A males territory can overlap several females
territories.
24. A tiger will circumnavigate its territory every few days.

25. Tiger stripes are individually as unique as the human
finger print.
26. If you were to shave the fur from a tiger it would still
have stripes.
27. Tiger stripes act as perfect camouflage in tall weeds
and grasses.
28. The tigers most developed sense is its hearing.
29. A tiger can only usually expect a one in twenty success
rate when bringing down prey.
30. Tigers like to feed on pig, deer and buffalo, but will also
eat smaller prey such as rabbit and fish.
31. On average a tiger can eat up to 60 pounds of meat at
one time.
32. After a feed, a tiger will usually bury the remaining
animal carcass in an attempt to hide it from scavengers,
and then exhume it for its next meal.
33. A tiger can go two to three days without eating.
34. In a part of India called Sundeban tigers have been
known to eat man.
35. To deter these attacks villagers wear masks on the
back of their heads as attacks are always from behind.
36. A tiger can spend up to eighteen hours sleeping.
37. Tigers can swim and like to cool down by sitting neck
deep in water holes.
38. Tigers reach maturity and are ready for mating at the
age of three.
39. A male tiger can copulate up to six times an hour.
40. A female tiger will usually give birth to 2-3 cubs in the
wild, unfortunately the fatality rate for cubs can be
quite high.
41. The gestation period can range from 102-106 days from
time of conception.
42. All tigers typically show a 1:1 sex ratio at birth.
43. Tiger cubs are blind at birth.
44. A tiger cub can gain 100 grams in weight per day.
45. A cub will begin eating solid food at around 12-13 weeks
and should be completely weaned around seventeen
weeks.
46. Tiger cubs play-fight with their siblings, which enables
them to gain strength and speed.
47. It is believed that the two white dots on the back of a
tiger's ears are designed to act as a visual beacon to
enable the cubs to follow their parent.
48. A tiger cub will make its first kill around 18 months of
age.
49. Tiger cubs can stay with their mother for up to 2-3
years.
50. Male tigers have been known to kill and sometimes eat
cubs of other males before taking the tigress as its own
mate.
51. All tigers have a similar marking on their forehead,
which resembles the Chinese symbol Wang, meaning
King.
52. Tigers do not purr.
53. Usually before mating, but also as a sign of affection,
tigers make a kind of chuffing sound by expelling air
softly through the nostrils.
54. Unlike the domestic cat the tigers pupils are round.
55. The tiger's foot print is known as the pug mark, and its
measurement is sometimes the only method of
recording wild tigers.
56. Like the domestic cat the tigers claws are retractable.
57. There are five toes on a tigers forefeet and four on its
hind feet.
58. A tiger's night vision is six times greater than a
human's.
59. A tiger's canine teeth can grow up to three inches long
and would be capable of crunching through the
vertebrae of any creature on this earth.
60. Adult tigers have thirty teeth.
61. On average a tigers tail is around four feet long or half
the length of its body.
62. The tail gives the tiger extra balance when running and
is also used to communicate to other tigers.
63. The tendons in a tiger's leg are so strong that an animal
has been known to remain standing after it has been
shot dead.
64. The Sumatran tiger has the most pronounced ruff
around its neck.
65. The South China tiger has the fewest stripes.
66. The fore limbs of a tiger are more powerful than the
hind limbs for grabbing large prey.
67. In Chinese, tiger means Wu Lao Hu. In Hindi it
means Bagh, Sher. In Indonesian it means Harimau,
Macan. In Korean it means Ho Lang-ee. In Vietnamese
it means Cop. In Thai and Lao it means Seua.
In Nepalese it means Bagh. In Burmese it means Kyar.
And in Malay it means Harimau.
68. Tigers move both legs on one side of the body almost
simultaneously when they walk.
69. The South China tiger has a slightly different shaped
skull to the other subspecies, its eye sockets are deeper
and it has a slight hump on the back of its neck.
70. Most tigers are orange with black stripes and a white
underbelly and jowl.
71. A white tiger is not an albino, all white tigers are
believed to have descended from a single white Bengal
male called Mohan.
72. It is said that the South China tiger is impossible to
train, many Chinese circuses gave up after trying to
implement them into their acts.
73. The tiger is revered in Chinese mythology and is said to
have magical powers.
74. The tiger is the third animal in the Chinese zodiac.
75. Yin and Yang is sometimes represented by a Yin tigress
and a Yang dragon.
76. It is believed that when a tiger dies its spirit enters the
ground and becomes amber.
77. It is also believed in Chinese mythology that the tiger
can take human form.
78. The demise of the tiger is due to loss of habitat and the
use of tiger parts in traditional Chinese medicines.
79. Every single part of the tiger is used in traditional
Chinese medicine.
80. Tiger derivatives have been used in traditional Chinese
medicines for over 1000 years.
81. There is not a shred of scientific evidence to back up
claims that any of these remedies work.
82. Some traditional Chinese remedies are dangerous.
83. Tiger parts are also used as trophies, trinkets and aids
to ward off evil spirits.
84. In Asia illegal tiger farms operate to supply tigers for
the traditional Chinese medicine market.
85. In 1959 The Siberian tiger was declared an endangered
species and awarded protection.
86. In 1959 The South China tiger was declared a pest and
a bounty was placed on its head.
87. In 1959 there were approximately 4000 South China
tigers in the wild.

88. Between 1960 and 1984 3000 South China tiger pelts
were officially recorded.
89. Many so called tiger activists have given up on the
South China tiger.
90. Now the Chinese government is completely dedicated
to saving the South China tiger.
91. As the trade for tiger parts has now been forced
underground the incentives for poachers have greatly
increased, one tiger carcass can mean as much as ten
years pay.

92. The main users of illegal animal derivatives are, China,
Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
93. Tiger powders and potions can be bought all over the
USA, Europe and the UK.
94. There are believed to be 120 outlets selling tiger
derivatives in Australia alone.
95. Tiger populations are being cut off as their territories
shrink and the corridors which join them together are
being destroyed.
96. It is estimated that Bengal tigers are still being killed by
poachers and villagers at the rate of one per day.
97. In the 1980's public tiger slaughters were common in
Taiwan.
98. A single brewery in Taiwan imported 2,000kg of tiger
bone annually during the 1980's, the equivalent of
100-200 tiger carcasses, to produce 100,000 bottles of
tiger wine.
99. There are now more tigers in captivity than there are in
the wild.
100. We could lose the wild tiger in as little as five years
time.
101. The tiger has only one predator...MAN!102. A group of tigers is called a Streak.
103. There were believed to be 100,000 wild tigers at the
beginning of the last century.
104. There are twice as many captive tigers in the USA
than there are anywhere in the wild.
105. The tiger's stripes form what is called disruptive
camouflage, which is an illusion that appears to change
their shape and blend them into their surroundings.
106. A tiger is Diurnal, which means its peak times of activity
are dawn and dusk.
107. A tiger eats around six kilos of meat per day, but can
go as long as a week without a meal.
108. Approximately fifty humans are killed by tigers each
year.
109. The Tiger Chase is the first novel written about the
South China tiger.
110. Tigers will occasionally eat vegetation for dietary fiber, the
fruit of the Slow Match Tree being favoured.

i like about jaguar crocodile snake and comodo dragon! those animals are so cool!

lol seether that like the funniest thing ive heard all day

and my fav would have to be the tiger and the eagle and white shark i like predetors not prey

i loce the horses , the giraffes and the whales!!!