Interesting Facts

  Do you know that Scientists have discovered a 5-mile wide undersea crater created that Killed the dinosaurs************** An asteroid from space slammed into the Earth's surface 66 million years ago, leaving a massive crater underneath the sea and wreaking havoc with the planet.   No, it's not that asteroid, the one that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction, but a previously unknown crater 248 miles off the coast of West Africa that was created right around the same time. Further study of the Nadir crater, as it's called, could shake up what we know about that cataclysmic moment in natural history.     Uisdean Nicholson, an assistant professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, happened on the crater by accident -- he was reviewing seismic survey data for another project on the tectonic split between South America and Africa and found evidence of the crater beneath 400 meters of seabed sediment.********************** ...

  How duck 'soldiers' became this 300-year-old winemaker's secret weapon      Almost every wine-producing country in the world experiences difficulties with the local wildlife, from deer (who are apparently a proper pain  when it comes to nibbling the fresh grapevine shoots) and boar in Europe, to more exotic beasts in other parts. However, in some countries, animals are playing a key role in protecting vineyards, and the balance between winemaker and wildlife is far more beneficial. We’ve recently been reading about llamas in Chile being used to eat weeds, armadillos in Patagonia being welcomed in the vineyard for eating small pests, and bobcats in California being encouraged for scaring away deer and rabbits.  ***************************          Since the 1980s, hundreds of ducks have patrolled the Wine Estate outside Cape Town, South Africa. It's a centuries-old practice that helps keep the vineyard free of pe...

  Major tourist attraction of New Zealand "Pink and White Terraces " Once known as "the eighth Wonder of the World", the Pink and White Terraces that cascaded down a hillside in New Zealand's geothermal Rotorua region would have been a spectacular sight to behold.   Created by geothermal waters flowing from the Earth's core that crystallized over hundreds of years, the silica terraces formed tumbling pools, staircases and waterfalls that were filled with warm, mineral-rich waters and steeped in historical and cultural significance.***************************   Before the eruption that destroyed them in the late 19th Century, these natural wonders were New Zealand's most famous tourist attraction, luring wealthy travelers from around the world to bathe in the salmon-pink waters.   which covered seven acres and descended 30 m into Lake Rotomahana.   People were also drawn by the tantalizing health benefits of the world's youngest g...