Leafs

Tuesday 24 December 2013

Glowing Mice


A genetically modified mice. A glowing Gene taken out from a Jellyfish and put into the mouse. Transgenic mice expressing green fluorescent protein, which glows green under blue light. The central mouse is wild-type.

Pink Fairy Armadillo


Pink fairy armadillo smallest armadillo species in the world. It is found in central Argentina, where it inhabits dry grasslands and sandy plains with thorn bushes. The pink fairy armadillo is approximately 90–115 mm (3.5-4.5 inches) long, excluding the tail. The pink fairy armadillo uses their digging abilities to burrow in areas beside large ant colonies. Ants provide a constant food source for this species of armadillo. As well, they may also forage on worms, snails and plant matter but ants are their number one choice.


Monday 16 December 2013

Hagfish



Hagfish is eel-shaped creatures use four pairs of thin sensory tentacles surrounding their mouths to find food—including carcasses of much larger animals. They live in cold waters and shallow deep as 5,500 feet nearly. To be safe from the predators attack hagfish produce slime, which give slippery exit and when large fish sees its as a meal instead gets a mouth full of slime. It can go months without food.


LONGEST TRAFFIC JAM EVER


 On August 14, 2010, on China National Highway 110 and Beijing-Tibet expressway in Hebei and Inner Mongolia faced the massive Traffic Jam which slow down thousand of vehicles for more than "100 Kilometer (62.1 Miles)" and lasted for more than "TEN DAYS". It was so slow that many drivers were able to move their vehicle only 1KM (0.6 Miles) in 24 hours.
The Cause of traffic jam was moving heavy truck and road construction which reduced road capacity to 50% and more over police reported that minor breakdown and accidents.   






Wednesday 11 December 2013

Komodo Dragon





The Komodo dragon is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar. It is the largest living species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of 3 metres (10 ft) in rare cases and weighing up to approximately 70 kilograms (150 lb). These are flesh eating and take down big mamals like baffalos. Its uses its tongue to detect, taste, and smell stimuli and able to detect carrion from 4–9.5 km (2.5–5.9 mi) away.
It has about 50 bacteria in their saliva and they are ammune to other komodo bites.

     



Tuesday 10 December 2013

Sea Squirt Digest Brain



Sea squirt starts as a tad pole and it spends its time growing and exploring the sea. While squirt explore the sea it has brain (I mean Physically). Once Squirt becomes an adult, it attached itself permanently to a rock or a boat’s hull or pilings. It no longer needs to explore the world as it did before but gains enough nutrients to survive just through the passing current. While passing rest of its life at one place, it digest its brain.