Monday 19 November 2012

Star Shaped Spillway, Armenia


A spillway is known in the UK as overflow channels, are structures that offer controlled release of flows from a dam or levee into an area downstream. Spillways release floods so that water does not overtop and destroy the dam; water does not regularly flow over a spillway unless there is a flood. Typically spillways are round; this particular star-shaped one is located at the Kechut Reservoir near Jermuk in Armenia. We have already done a standalone feature on the round shaped bell-mouth spillways, but I have never seen a star-shaped spillway until now.

Sunday 18 November 2012

The Incredible Honeybee’s Final Sting

The Incredible Honeybee’s Final Sting

If you have ever wondered why honeybees tend to die after stinging someone, this picture says it all. In an unbelievable capture by Kathy Keatley Garvey, a UC Davis Communications Specialist in the Department of Enomology, we are well see a bee stinging a person’s arm and then attempting to fly away as the stinger remains lodged in the victim. That trail of goo you see? It’s in reality the bee’s abdominal tissue. The incredible capture netted Garvey the first-place gold feature photo award in an Association for Communication Excellence competition. On the fortunate timing, Kathy Keatley Garvey said she was walking with a friend and a bee came close to him and started buzzing in a high-pitch. She said that’s normally a telltale sign that a bee’s about to sting, so she immediately readied her camera and snapped this image.

Saturday 17 November 2012

The Longest Truck in the World!


You can call this amazing vehicle "Road Train" A road train or road-train is a trucking concept used in remote areas of Argentina, Mexico United States, Canada and Australia, to move logistics freight efficiently. The word "road train" is most often used in Australia. In United States and Canada the terms "triples," "turnpike doubles" and "Rocky Mountain doubles" are frequently used for longer combination vehicles (LCVs). A “road train” consists of a relatively conventional tractor unit, but instead of pulling one trailer or semi-trailer, a road train pulls two or more of them. On February 18, 2006, an Australian built Mack truck with 112 semi-trailers, 1,300 t (1,279 long tons; 1,433 short tons) and 1,474.3 meters (4,836 ft 11 in) long, this road train pulled the load 100 metres (328 feet) to recapture the record for the longest road train (multiple loaded trailers) ever pulled with a single prime mover. It was on the main road of Clifton, Queensland, that 70-year-old John Atkinson claimed a new record, pulled by a tri-drive Mack Titan.



Friday 16 November 2012

Amazing Five Headed Snake


We know what you may believe, it’s a photo-shop fake, and at a first glance anyone might be tempted to believe the same way, but take a 2nd, or even a 3rd look, heck take as many looks as you want, cause this is most likely the weirdest thing you have seen lately, a five headed snake has been seen in an Indian temple at Karnataka. Even tho polycephalic snakes sound like something we have only heard in mythology, it is not as rare as you would believe to observe a two headed snake. But a five headed snake is just too amazing and weird. I am sure you would take a look at the pictures and see for yourself. Those animals with more than one head have a congenital condition called polycephaly, in lay man terms, they have various heads. From what has been documented, animals with more than one head are separated into two categories: three headed animals and two headed animals. Up until now, the only books or imaginations that mentioned five headed animals are story books. But take a look at this incredible picture of a five headed cobra found in India. Coincidently or not, Hindu epic books tell the story of such unbelievable reptiles, but once again, nothing was ever proven. Now shed your eyes below and see for yourself the wondrous and astonishing five headed snake.

World’s Longest Car: The Limousine

The Limousine has 26 wheels and can be driven rigidly or adjusted to bend in the middle around corners. This incredible car is currently in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest car in the world and even has two driver’s compartments one at each end to help with reversing. The longest car in the world is better equipped than many Hollywood mansions, including luxuries like a large Jacuzzi tub, a sun deck, a helipad, a swimming pool (with a diving board of course), a king sized bed and a satellite dish, just to name a few. While the limo isn’t actually street legal, it is mainly hired out for exhibitions and to be used in movies.

Unusual Multicolor Apple with Different Taste


Sometimes unusual facts happened, and you would be surprised off course and your initial thinking will be some graphic works; but it’s thought to be a random genetic mutation. The Apple was bringing into being in the orchard of a man named Ken Morrish, where he's grown apples for 45 years. Ken Morris was picking apples in his garden for a family member when he surprised to see the unusual apple, which caught his attention immediately. The red side of the apple is said to taste sweeter than the green side does. The reason for this is thought to be that the red side has seen more sunshine during its growth. The apple discovery is extremely uncommon and intriguing. I believe you would be also curious to see this rare apple. 

Monday 29 October 2012

Chudnite Mostove a rock phenomenon situated near the Zabardo village West Rhodope mountain,Bulgaria.


Chudnite Mostove (The magnificent Bridges) a rock phenomenon situated near the Zabardo village West Rhodope mountain,Bulgaria. The "bridges" were shaped by the destructive activity of the once high-water river. It transformed the marble clefts into a deep water cave, the ceiling of which whittled up through time and collapsed, allegedly during an earthquake. Geologists presume that the water carried the debris away. As a result, the two left over bridge-shaped boulders remained. The adjacent area is timbered by century-old conifers, largely spruces. In the past the bridges had been one entire cave, formed under the erosive activity of the river waters. Parts of it were collapsing with time, forming majestic marble bridges. The huge bridge is about fifteen meters wide in its wider parts and almost hundred meters long. It consists of three arches, as the largest one is 45 meters high and 40 meters wide. The small bridge is at a distance of 200 meters from the large one along the river current. It is blocked, 60 meters long, with total height of 50 meters, and the height of the arch is 30 meters. There is also a really small third bridge after it, which is a ponor cave, in which the waters of Erkyupriya River disappear, to become visible again on the surface 3 kilometers farther.

Saturday 13 October 2012

Huge Mysterious Eyeball Found on Florida Beach


Maybe reminiscent of the infamous Montauk monster, a massive eyeball has washed up on a Florida beach as if Florida needed anything else weird. It looks an awful lot like the huge squid eyeball we recently found on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Smithsonian. The strange eye washed up on Florida’s Pompano Beach, where it was found by a beachcomber. Instead of whisking it away, as was the case in Montauk, the fine citizen handed it over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Scientists will use genetic testing to try to figure out who the eye belonged to. The primary suspect right now is that it would be a big fish, such as a swordfish, tuna, or deep-water fish. It most likely is a squid eye other things with eyes that big fish, cetaceans have them imbedded in hard tissue. Squid eyes are in comparatively soft tissue and more likely to dislodge as in the photo you sent. A quick DNA analysis could easily sort it out for you. That appears to be bones around the eye, so that would rule out a squid.


Wednesday 10 October 2012

THE ASIDUS "MOON MELON" IS A FRUIT WE ALL WANT

"That is a Moonmelon, scientifically called as asidus. This lovely fruit grows in some parts of Japan, and it’s recognized for its strange blue color what you most likely don’t know about this fruit, is that it can switch flavors after you eat it, everything sour will taste sweet, and the whole thing salty will taste bitter and it gives water a strong orange-like taste, this fruit is very expensive and easily called lavish fruit, and it coasts about 16000 JPY (which is about 200 dollars)" 

Ant Snapped in a tiny sphere of water


Trapped in a small just right sphere of water, this inauspicious ant is unable to escape. A sudden downpour gave it no time to take cover, and photographer Adam Gormley was there to depict the image. Adam, from Noosaville, Queensland, Australia, had been photographing spiders in his neighbor’s garden when the rain came down. He had no thought there was an ant in one of the three millimeter droplets until he watched the images later. Adam said: I was thinking it some dirt inside the drop, and it was not my main focal point, I really liked the way the drop was sitting on the aloe-vera leaf, with the tiny hairs. When I uploaded the image to my PC with large view, and I think I shouted out loud in pleasure when I realized what I'd captured by accident!