Asia

Black Drongo – Black Bird With a Distinctive Forked Tail

All black, the black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) is a small Asian passerine bird.  This blackbird belongs to the drongo family, Dicruridae. This bird is a common resident breeder in...

White Bellbird – World’s Loudest Bird

Scientists think that the male White Bellbird (Procnias albus) has the loudest call of any bird species recorded...

White-throated Gerygone (Gerygone olivacea)

Family: The gorgeous white-throated gerygone (Gerygone olivacea) belongs to the family Acanthizidae in the order Passeriformes. Vocalizations: White-throated Gerygone...

Shingle Beach – Armoured with Pebbles and Cobbles

When the word “Beach” comes, the first notion comes in mind is sand and water. People do not...

Valentina Vassilyeva, The world’s most fertile mother gave birth to 69 children

Valentina Vassilyeva, a Russian woman, holds the record for having given birth to the most children in her...

Saqqara Pyramid – World’s First True Pyramid

Saqqara Pyramid is considered to be the world's first true pyramid. It is an architectural wonder in its own right, being built around a...

Oman Forest – Blooms for Three Months in a Year

Oman Forest blooms for three months in a year. The jungle of Oman, revealed in a series of photographs, is an incredibly pop-up forest...

Tianzi Mountains – Formation Inspired the Fictional World of Pandora

The Tianzi Mountains inspired the Pandora mountainscape in James Cameron’s film Avatar. It is located in Zhangjiajie, in the Hunan Province of China, near...

Dar al-Hajar – Yemen’s Spectacular Royal Architecture

Yemen's Dar al-Hajar, or 'stone house', is a rock column behold one of the world's most spectacular constructions. The former royal residence grows out...

Shehr-e-Roghan – The Mysterious Cave City

In Balochistan, Pakistan, there is a famous archaeological town called Shehr-e-Roghan, referred to as the Cave City or City of Jinns. Cave City is...

The Breathtaking Terraced Rice Fields in The Cordilleras

Terraced Rice Fields in The Cordilleras - Into precipitous mountains rice paddies have been carved from some 220 miles (350 kilometers) from Manila, this...

Gilbert Hill – A Monolith Column of Black Basalt

Gilbert Hill is a 200 ft (61 m) monolith column of black basalt rock in the middle of Andheri, in Mumbai, the state of...

Kalyan Minaret – History of Beauty and Death

Bukhara is one of the most attractive and legendary cities in the world, where the Kalyan minaret is a minaret of the Po-i-Kalyan mosque...

The Unbelievable Cape Stolbchaty Columnar Basalt Formation

Stone formation like those found at Cape Stolbchaty, on Kunashir Island, seem almost impossible to explain as natural creations. As a matter of fact,...

The Historic Kalyazin Bell Tower, Russia

The Kalyazin Bell Tower is a 244 feet Neoclassical campanile over the waters of the Volga River opposite the old town of Kalyazin, in...