Animals That May Soon Be Extinct

British photographer Tim Flach, has spent the more than 2 years to documenting braving their habitats and their brittle existences. Thus, the resulting body of work, Endangered, provides us with a close and exceptional view into the striking lives of Earth's most threatened creatures, and reminds us of everything we should be scared to lose. For most of us, endangered animals are a far-away mystery.

Therefore, from species we are all acquainted with polar bear, snow leopard, cheetah, however to exotic beasts we would only imagine in fantasy films Saiga, Philippine eagle, Olm salamander. So Tim Flach presents a wide spectrum of biodiversity with Endangered, and sheds light on the inimitable challenges each animal faces in order to survive. Thus, some have had their numbers cut down by habitat destruction. While others endure more gruesome ordeals, such as hunting, poaching, and being sold into the black market.

1. Proboscis Monkey



2. Saiga



3. Philippine Eagle



4. Golden Snub Nosed Monkey



5. Ring Tailed Lemur



6. Polar Bear



7. Hacintth Macaw



8. Shoebill



9. Iberian Lynx



10. While Bellied Pangolin



11. Ploughshare Tortoise



12. Yunan Snub Nosed Monkey



13. Pied Tamarin



14. Olm Salamander



15. Green Winged Macaws on Claylick



16. Monarch Butterflies



17. European Honey Bee



18. Red Crown Crane



19. Western Lowland Gorillas



20. Yellow Eyed Tree Frog Eggs



21. Blue Throated Macaw



22. Scimitar Oryx's



23. Scallope Hammerhed Aggregation



24. Beluga Sturgeon



25. Indian Gharial



26. Lemur Leaf Frog



27. Smooth Fronted Cayman



28. Military Macaw



29. Northern White Rhinoceros



30. Kaiser's Newt



31. Egyptian Vulture



31. Egyptian Vulture



34. Arabian Oryx



35. Fireflies



36. Sea Angels



37. Partula Snails



38. Giant Panda



39. Siamese Crocodile



40. Marine Iguana

Tim Flach has regularly stated that he set a goal to reveal the relationships that attach humans to our wilder counterparts. Staring into the eyes of the animals featured in Endangered, it's painful to imagine that any one of them would ever be considered less worthy of life than one of us. So, have a look into the most stunning shots from the series, and vote for the ones that took your breath away.

Scientists Detected Earth’s Mysterious “Hum”

For the first time it has been reported that the Earth makes a strange humming sound, on the ocean floor, which has reported in some zones in the Antarctica and Algeria. However researchers consider they can observe it all around our globe. American Geophysical Union explained a new study of earth vibrating on the floor of the Indian Ocean. An investigator stated that these vibrations, generally called the “hum of the Earth,” sound like the static on an old TV, but reduced down 10,000 times. This doesn’t enable some animals to hear it. Though no earthquake takes place on our planet, hence our earth is continuously moving. The air blows, the water flows, the ground collapses, the temperature changes, and so it goes. Investigators believe some of these movements make the agonizing noise, but they don’t know which one is yet.

Therefore, they’ve hypothesized it might be the repetition of oceans colliding, the atmosphere moving, or the fluctuations born of sea and sky alike. If specialists were able to hear the sound clearer, they could discover numerous secrets hidden inside our planet. So, it could even direct them how to draw a map so aliens can find us. Moreover, a different team of investigators studying the hum in the Antarctica said in 1998 that the fluctuations are always sounding. In 2001, one of them from University of California at Santa Barbara described that these are “constant signals” that wave in a range of 2 to 7 millihertz, thousands of times lower than the range humans can hear. Scientists haven’t cracked the code yet, but this new breakthrough could help them get closer to the source of this mysterious noise.

Nonetheless, somewhat is clear: all of them thought the noise is being caught more evident every time. Spahr Webb, a seismologist at Columbia University, is one of the principal researchers in the 21st century who is centered on learning the cause of the hum. Thus, he overruled that the main reason is the communications between the atmosphere and the ground. In its place, he thought that the primary cause is the ocean waves, which bang on the sea floor “pretty much all the way throughout the Earth.” Further, there are moments that two dissimilar waves collide to one another, sending the vibrations they produce deep down the Earth’s crust. Furthermore, there are also other waves which, instead of shocking between them, they hit the ground with enough force to create a much reaction inside the world. The hum was also pro-posed to be induced by acoustic resonance between the atmosphere and the solid Earth, but this can onlyexplain part of its amplitude.

The Massive Spider Webs Created an Ideal Home

On the banks of a creek near Jerusalem Israel, stands a captivated forest, where its trees shrouded by huge cobwebs woven by long-jawed spiders. The Soreq creek covers treated sewage that is full of nutrients that help the proliferation of mosquitoes. These serve as a source of food for improbable web-spinning spiders which then replicate in multitudes, weaving captivating and eerie webs above the water.

It's an exceptional case, as millions of long-jawed spiders shaped the webbing that envelops the forest, a marvel rarely seen in the Middle East. But while spider egg sacs and spider lings are everywhere along the banks of the creek, the future is bleak. Moreover, the colder temperatures will soon cause a radical drop in the mosquito population that sustains the web-weavers. So when the summers end, the spiders mate and the female will lay eggs before dying. The long-jawed spiders are found in clammy or swamp habitats all over the world. They usually have long slim bodies with shiny abdomens; sit in their web or on a close plant and wait for prey to fly into their trap. They feed on flying insects, including moths and leaf-hoppers. Their scientific name is “Tetragnatha”, which literally means four jaws.

Therefore, when the male mates the female he has to lock his jaws onto her to stop her from eating him. Like most spiders, they shed their skin as they grow and usually live for less than a year. In 2009, long-jawed spiders made a giant web in a Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant.  According to the researchers, the webbing was so heavy it even damaged light fixtures and clumps of web were, in few places, as thick as a fire hose. Source: Charismaticplanet.com