Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Five creatures that suck blood

                            Five creatures that suck blood



Sheep Ticks
Before sucking blood

Sheep Tick after sucking blood










These balloon after a feed, and can cause Lyme disease in humans. These usually you can found on dogs.



Leeches
Leeches
Leeches use their  slicing mouth parts to cut through the skin.









Tsetse flies

Tsetse flies
Biting flies that feed on blood and spread the sleeping sickness disease.









Kissing bugs
Kissing bugs

These comes out at night and suck your blood while you're asleep.











Saturday, 18 May 2013

ENIAC

ENIAC (1945)



  

ENIAC means Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. The first electronic computer used so much power that all the lights in the nearby town dimmed every time it was switched on. It weighed in at about 30 tonnes.


ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tab for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory.

Friday, 17 May 2013

Fart Facts

Fart Facts

  •  Farts are made up of air that you swallow, and gases released by bacteria in the intestines.

    • Farts smell because of certain stinky gases released by bacteria.

      • Eating cauliflower, eggs, or meat produces the smelliest farts.

        • Eating beans produces the largest volume of farts. Bacteria love beans!!

          • An average person farts 14 times a day.


                                  Top five most dangerous spiders

Funnel Web(Australia)



Black Widow(North America)



Red Back(Australia)





Brown recluse spider(USA)


Brazilian wandering spider(Central and South America)

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Bristlecone Pines

                                                       Bristlecone Pines



Here is some thing interesting about this pine tree. Bristlecone pines are the oldest tress on the planet. Growing slowly on cold,windswept mountainsides in western USA, they can live for thousands of years. The oldest specimen is known as Methuselah, and is about 4,800 years old. Record breaker.
This shows that our earth is full of amazing things.

Tuesday, 14 May 2013


     Big South American Cane toad was introduced to Australia in 1935 to eat beetles that were   destroying sugar cane crops. It didn't eat the beetles but managed to scoff lots of other animals,including native frogs, snakes and mammals, making some extinct.

Monday, 13 May 2013

                                                         Welwitschia

  • It lives int he arid Namib Desert, Africa and gets water from morning dew.
  • It can lives for more than 1,000 Years.
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 The longest mountain range on earth is the mid-Atlantic ridge, which runs for nearly 16,000km (10,000 miles) below the Atlantic Ocean.




                                                       Record Breaker
 

The tallest mountain on Earth is Mauna Kea in Hawaii, which rises 10,205m (33,480 ft) from its on the seabed to its summit.