Tuesday, October 22, 2013

News Tuesdays


IN RECENT NEWS..

Just last week, there was an Oarfish that washed on the shores of California. It's 14 feet and a deep sea creature. Once they autopsied the body, they realized it was pregnant at the time. It's just unclear on why the Oarfish died.
Australian scientists have found gold particles around the soil of eucalyptus tree's and in the leaves. It's interesting that precious metals like gold can be found in common leaves. "We've done a calculation, and found that we need 500 trees growing over a gold deposit to have enough gold in the trees themselves to make a gold ring," said Dr Lintern

Gold and other mineral deposits in leaf


There has been a recent discovery of a venomous crustacean. Out of the 70,000 species of known crustaceans, this remipede crustacean is poisonous. The remipede lives underwater and uses its poison liquefy its the prey.

Remipede

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