Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Animals: The Galapagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra)
Is the largest living species of tortoise and 10th-heaviest living reptile, reaching weights of over 400 kg (880 1b) and lengths of over 1.8 meters (5.9ft). With life spans in the wild of over 100 years, it is one of the longest-lived vertebrates. A captive individual lived at least 170 years.
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Flowers: Nature's Exquisite Ice Extrusion, Frost flowers
It is as beautiful as it is rare.
A frost flower is created on autumn or early winter mornings when ice in extremely thin layers is pushed out from the stems of plants or occasionally wood. This extrusion creates wonderful patterns which curl and fold into gorgeous frozen petioles giving this phenomenon both its name and its appearance
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Friday, 10 May 2013
Flower: Desert Rose
is the name given to rosette formations of the minerals gypsum and barite with sand inclusions. The 'petals' are crystals flattened, fanning open along characteristic gypsum cleavage planes. The rosette crystal habit tends to occur when the crystals form in arid sandy conditions, such as the evaporation of a shallow salt basin.Desert roses are mineral formations that are found on the surface and are beautiful examples of the natural power of the shaping forces of wind, water and pressure in dry, arid regions.Desert roses are only found in deserts, which is how they got the name...
Photo credit: Bruce Warren
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