Africa

Pilotbird: The Jewel of Wet Sclerophyll and Temperate Rainforests

Family: The pilotbird (Pycnoptilus floccosus) belongs to the family Acanthizidae in the order Passeriformes. This species is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a species of passerine bird that...

The Facts of Cetti’s Warbler

Identification CETTI’S WARBLER (Cettia cetti) is a fairly large but very skulking warbler of dense waterside undergrowth with a...

Garden Visiting Green Finches

The Green Finches is the largest of a trio of British finches with partly green plumage (the others...

Striated fieldwren (Calamanthus fuliginosus)

Family: Known as the Striated fieldwren (Calamanthus fuliginosus), it is a species of bird native to Australia that...

Glow Worms Illuminating the Darkness of Ruakuri Cave

The Spellbinding photographs of glow worms illuminate the darkness in the streaks of turquoise lights inside Ruakuri Cave...

Laetoli Footprint Trail – 3.6-million-year-old footprints

The Laetoli footprint trail puzzled the scientific world when it was discovered. In the hot and shrubby Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, water and...

Pico Cao Grande ! The Needle Shaped Towering Volcanic Plug

The Pico Cao Grande is also called the Great Dog Peak actually a towering needle-shaped volcanic plug peak in São Tomé and Príncipe, in...

Lake Bosomtwe – A Crater Lake Located in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Lake Bosomtwe is a crater lake located in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, West Africa. It is situated in the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma Forest Reserve and...

Dabous Giraffes: The Largest Animal Rock Petroglyphs in Niger

The "Dabous Giraffes" are the world's largest animal rock petroglyphs, situated a short distance from the Trans-Saharan Highway and roughly 110 km north of...

Crystal Mountain – Stands on the Edge of White Desert

With the name of Crystal Mountain, one can imagine seeing a massive mountain rising up out of the desert. However, the Crystal Mountain is...

Ksar Ouled Soltane – Multi-Story Vaulted Granary

Ksar Ouled Soltane is well located approximately 20 kilometers south of the city of Tataouine, in southern Tunisia. This is an attractive and perfectly...

The Peculiar Travertine Chimneys of Lake Abbe

Lake Abbe is actually a salt lake, the largest and final of a chain of 6 connected lakes on the Ethiopia-Djibouti border. Lake Abbe...

The Majestic Draa Ksar in Timimoun, Algeria

There is no place more majestic than the Draa Ksar. It dominates an ocean of dunes in the middle of an ocean of dunes....

Caves of Hercules Morocco

Cape Spartel, Morocco, is home to the Caves of Hercules, an archaeological cave complex. The popular tourist attraction is located 14 kilometers west of...

The Catastrophic Disaster of Lake Nyos

On 21, August 1986 In Cameroon, a small crater Lake Nyos killed 1,700 villagers and 3,500 livestock overnight. It abruptly released 100,000 - 300,000...