Showing posts with label marine world. Show all posts
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Friday, 8 October 2010

The world's only immortal animal - New

The world's only  immortal animal - New


The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.

Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).

The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.

Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.

Thursday, 7 October 2010

The beautiful small islands


                  The beautiful small islands
The island of Ängsö is small, only 168 hectares, of which 93 hectares are water, but so worth visiting. Ängsö is the smallest national park in Sweden and only a short distance away from the capital city of Stockholm. Apart from its significance as a cultural and historical monument to a bygone farming era, the park offers a very pleasing island landscape, with all the floral splendour for which the archipelago north of Stockholm is renowned. Ängsö is a very inviting and idyllic national park. A piece of old Sweden is preserved on the island, with pastures and summer meadows – countryside which developed over several centuries of human work. The coniferous forest covers a third of the area of the park. The Ängsö forest is now one of the best preserved virgin forests in the archipelago. Ospreys and sea eagles are sometimes seen on the island and the bird life of the forest groves is rich. A part of the island is a bird protection area, and admittance is prohibited in summer, but the main part of the island is open for the public. They are maybe not in package holidays, but you can find it anyway
Ängsö island The beautiful small islands
Gaiola island, coast of Posillipo
The sea around cape Posillipo is nowadays a protected oasis, called ‘Natural Park of the Gaiola’, after the name of the islets in the middle of this area, on the south extremity of the promontory. It has a grim history and people like to tell you that it’s haunted. It is the site of an ancient navigators’ shrine to Venus as well as near the site of the few Roman ruins of “the sorcerer’s house” where the poet Virgil, also renowned as a magician, is said to have taught. Gaiola has two small neighbor islets. The modern house on it is abandoned. Over the centuries, Gaiola has developed a reputation of being haunted and there are many rumors about the misfortunes —including violent death— that befall those who inhabit it.
Gaiola island The beautiful small islands
King Island, Tasmania
King Island is one of the islands that make up the state of Tasmania, Australia. The only way you can get to the Island is by plane, but don’t let this stop you from experiencing the the peace and quiet of Island life. At the western entrance to Bass Strait lies an idylic place known as King Island. An island rich in history, with shipwrecks, lighthouses and jagged reefs, bountiful with long stretching sandy beaches and lush green pasture. The island was named King’s Island after Governor King of New South Wales, whose territory at the time included what is now Tasmania. The Local Government Area of the island is King Island Council.
King Island The beautiful small islands
Bora Bora island, Papeete
Anyone who has ever dreamed of escaping to a deserted tropical island can live out that fantasy on Bora Bora. The island, located about 230 kilometres (140 miles) northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. In the center of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu, the highest point at 727 metres. The major settlement, Vaitape is on the western side of the island, opposite the main channel into the lagoon. The products of the island are mostly limited to what can be obtained from the sea and coconut trees, which were historically of economic importance for copra. Bora Bora island is possibly the single most famous island in all the world. The legends, mysteries, and romance associated with the words “Bora Bora” bring an almost mystical presence to the island. It’s true Bora Bora is indeed a wonderful place to go on a vacation… but this magical presence is not so unattainable. Bora Bora is truly an experience worth having. A wonderfully relaxing place to be as well as a great island for you to experience, your Bora Bora vacation will never be forgotten.
Bora Bora island Papeete The beautiful small islands

Weird creature measured 6ft long

           Weird creature measured 6ft long
A mysterious creature horrified holidaymakers after it washed up on a beach on the Gower Peninsula in Wales. The writhing mass of tentacles, which measured at least 6ft from end to end. The barnacles – long writhing stalks or pendulates, tipped with shells – are normally found deep below the waves, but were washed up clinging to a log. This barnacle may look like a mollusc but it is in fact a crustacean related to shrimps, lobsters and crabs. The goose barnacle or percebe thrives at the ocean’s foamy edge. Slammed by boiling sea waves, laved in saline by constant saltwater surf, the percebe thrives clinging to wave-lashed crags of the sea, to coastal rocks in narrow inlets called ‘surge channels’ up which the ocean thrusts oxygen-rich waves tumbling and roiling to wash over the barnacle colonies, thus providing tiny planktonic food to be caught by the winnowing fan-like legs poking out and up from the barnacle. Barnacles attach themselves to rocks by their “heads” and feed by means of their feathery “legs.”
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Monday, 4 October 2010

Largest Clam In The World

              Largest Clam In The World

Clam-shell killer or a cannibal – the biggest clam in the world. Five feet in length and weighing over 200 pounds, he lives in areas of coral reefs to a depth of 20 meters. This shell lives a very long time – years poppet 150. It is called “Giant clam” “Tridacna”. People are naturally he does not eat, unless he specifically did not get into the closing doors. But the size of his inspires and generates awful legends. The giant clam is considered a delicacy in Japan, France, Southeast Asia and many Pacific islands. He himself lived through symbiosis with algae, which live on it. And also know how to filter water passing through it and vytseplyat out plankton.

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World’s Biggest Salmon

                World’s Biggest Salmon

I love salmon, especially smoked, but I never knew they were so ugly. Just so you don’t lose your appetite completely, I will say not all salmon looks this bad, only Chinook salmon.
This particular Chinook salmon was found by biologist Doug Killam in Battle Creek, near Anderson and is apparently the largest salmon in the world, weighing 85 pounds. I should say was the largest salmon in the world since Killam only found the carcass.  Take a look:

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Friday, 1 October 2010

Golden Pearl

Golden Pearl
On the island of Palawan in south western Philippines, the only living person in the world, who revealed the secret production of a rare form of jewelry and gold pearls.
 Go to the fragile natural pearls are treated like royal jewelry. Each oyster takes 5 years to produce one such gem, and the slightest jolt could kill it.


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How to Tell If a Pearl Is Real 

Tell if a pearl is real using these simple methods
 
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