Antarctica

Mapimi Silent Zone – Where Any Type of Communication Fails

The Mapimi Silent Zone is the popular name for a desert patch near the Bolsón de Mapimí in Durango, Mexico.  It is the subject of urban legend that claims...

The Black Sapote – Chocolate Pudding Fruit

The Black Sapote “Diospyros nigra” is a species of persimmon in the family Ebenaceae. It is also called...

Yellow-billed Cuckoo Call / Sound / Song

The male Yellow-billed Cuckoo call is a distinctive series of hollow, wooden-sounding ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-kow-kow-kow-kow-kowlp-kowlp-kowlp-kowlp-kowlp syllables. The entire series is...

Acorn Woodpecker: Social and Active Bird

Acorn Woodpecker call is chattering and laughing, including squeaky ik-a,i k-a, ik-a contact notes, mocking yak-a, wak-a or...

Are Honey Bees Beneficial?

Are Honey Bees Beneficial? Of the many tiny animals that share the planet earth with us. However, there...

Incredible Rectangular Iceberg Floating Off Antarctica

Nature follows its own rules and laws, but sometimes results are often irregular and asymmetric like clouds and coastline and ocean waves. NASA scientists...

The Mysterious Blood Falls

Blood Falls a natural phenomenon, a liquid outflow at the snout of Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica. Numerous glaciers have icy outflows, but few are...