The population of the American signal crayfish in scotland is to big. This crayfish is just killing all native fishes and the enviroment in where they live. Native fishes such as trout and salmon can't handle this invasion of the American signal crayfish. Solution? Every person who see's a crayfish needs to kill it ! How cruwel you would say but, they are killing every single fish in Scotland.
Researchers have discovered 13 new fish species afther one single dive in the Pacific Ocean. On depths of 60m to 150m. To discover these new fishes they needed to dive in the twilight zone with special sophisticated closed-circuit rebreather gear. They have discovered different kinds of damselfishs (see the picture). Did you know that most researches need a lifetime for just discovering one single specie!
Two years ago the planet Pluto was kicked out the planet lineup. Why? Because Pluto was just to small to be called a planet. Now the Pluto lovers are fighting back. Revisit the definition of a planet which hadn't been changed since ancient Greece. A planet must have three characteristics:
1. orbit round the sun 2. be big enough that its gravity makes it round 3. It needs to have cleared its path of debris by flinging the debris with its gravity or absorbing it.
Conclusion?
Pluto becomes a dwarf planet just like his moon Charon and the giant asteroid Ceres.
The Vampire Squidalso called Vampyroteuthis lives in great depths of 3500 feet. It's a tiny squid that can reach a lenght of 6 inches. Different from other squids and octopus it has no ink sack but, somthing else, his arms are covered with sharp spikes. Not to forget that he can confuse any enemy with light spots (see it on video). The vampire squid manly lives in tropical and temperate oceans. The bleu eyes of this Vampire squid are as big as the eyes of a big dog. Relatively big for a 6 inch creature.
Giant squids can reach huge sizes of 13 meters (43 ft) but, without excluding his tentakels that can grow arround 5 meters ! These squids are extremly rare to find. And when people find these giants of the sea they are commonly in bad shape. These squids have established a good place in the human imagination. (look picture) Don't get a bad impressions about these creatures they only eat other squids and fish. Well to have a beter view about the history of giant squids I've found this nice video.
The Japanese Spider Crab actually isn't a spider but, I want to mention this big indevidual in here because of his big size and eight legs. These Spider Crabs live in the Pacific ocean and arround Japan on depths of 50 to 300 meters. Once somebody had found a Spider Crab with a span of almost 4 meters(one end of a leg to another) ! Much larger then a normal crab isn't it ? Let me Show you a real spider crab in the Japanese Sea with some other strange Creatures.
The Brown Recluse Spiders is native for the USA (ohio,Gulf of Mexico)you can see it on the map. If you're bitten by this spider you will suffer a great amount of pain and some things like this happen.
1. You could get a volcano lesion (a hole in the flesh...) 2. The open wound could range from a little spot to the span of an adult hand!
Fortunatly it's extremly rare that people die from its bite. Recovering from this wound would take at least some months. They can grow up to 16 inch in wide! The places that you can encounter them are attics, shoes box , basements, clothing..(they preffer dark places).
They aren't deadly but like I said the wound needs months to heal.
This man is risking to be bitten but listen to what he says. Do not try this at home! The wound of this bite is just disgusting to see. Spiders won't bite you if you don't harm them, but spiders are night creatures so if you accedentaly encounter them at night...you know what will happen.
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