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April 10, 2008 at 5:41 am · Filed under nature, Animal, , Moth, speed
The world of moths is one that we’ll probably never fully understand, but a recent study by Rothamsted Research brings us one step closer:
Moths that fly high above our heads throughout the night are not at the mercy of the wind but use a sophisticated internal compass which can help them travel up to 400 miles in a single flight . . . While it is not clear how the creatures - in this case, the Silver Y moth - actually navigate between sunset and sunrise, researchers from the UK and Germany have found that the insects can judge the best conditions for flight based on direction and windspeed, selecting the fastest moving layers of atmosphere so, with their own speed of 10mph, can cruise at speeds of up to 55 mph.
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Original post by David
December 29, 2007 at 7:13 pm · Filed under nature
This is a type of hybrid carp, featured on a Korean news broadcast. Via Inventorspot
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Original post by gail
December 20, 2007 at 4:40 pm · Filed under nature, Architecture, Travel & Places
A Baobab tree in Limpopo, South Africa is so big that it’s been made into a bar! The tree has a 155-foot circumference and is hollow. The bar can seat 15 people comfortably, and once held 54 people (although not comfortably). Baobabs begin to hollow out at about a thousand years of age; this tree is estimated to be 6,000 years old. When owners Doug and Heather van Heerden set up the pub in the late eighties, they found artifacts indicating that Bushmen and Dutch pioneers had been inside, and had possibly lived in the tree. Link -via Arbroath
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Original post by Miss Cellania
December 16, 2007 at 10:13 pm · Filed under nature, Animal
Did humans really invented the wheel? It seems like Mother Nature had us beat: salamanders and caterpillars have been "rolling" like a wheel long before humans invented it.
Link [metacafe at VideoSift] - via AQFL
Original post by Alex
December 14, 2007 at 6:24 pm · Filed under nature, Video Clips, snow, train, Car & Vehicle
Check out this powerful Snow Plow Train get stuck. At first I thought it would keep going but as massive as they are, mother nature has her way.
Original post by algonkin
December 13, 2007 at 2:45 pm · Filed under nature, storm, ice, Car & Vehicle
Large chunks of ice fall from an antenna during the Oklahoma ice storm. Look at the end of the clip and see the damage it made to someone’s vehicle.
Source: Youtube
Original post by algonkin
December 4, 2007 at 3:05 pm · Filed under nature, Odd News
A waitress has refused to be classified as disabled even though she was born with feet that face backwards.
Wang Fang, 27, of Chongqing city in China, was born with her feet facing the wrong way, but has learned to live with her condition without problems and recently refused a disability pension.
Wang, who has a five year-old son with normal feet, said: “I can walk as well as anyone else and even run faster than them. I’m like everyone else - except of course that I put my shoes on backwards. There is no reason to class me as disabled.”
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