On the morning of May 29, 2006, at around 5 am, the inhabitants of the area around Sidoarjo, in Indonesia, started noticing a mud volcano erupting nearby. This was the first day of the nightmare that was yet to come. Starting that day, the volcano has spewed around 100,000 tons of mud, or the equivalent of 60 Olympic... |
12 February 2010
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Baleen whales form a group of marine animals that includes the largest living thing on the planet, the blue whale. They do not feed like other creatures, by swallowing or chewing their food, but by filtering enormous amounts of water using their baleens. These structures that they have on their upper jaws allow them ... |
5 January 2010
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Archaeologists and other researchers from China and the US are currently working together to uncover a mass grave, dating back more than 90 million years ago, which contains the remains of a large dinosaur group that got trapped in mud on the banks of a freshwater lake in the Gobi desert, Inner Mongolia. Nearly all o... |
16 March 2009
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A mud volcano has nothing to do with the proper volcanoes. Mud volcanoes appear mostly when gas pockets or gas deposits associated with oil manage to seep to the surface, transporting water mixed with solid material (mud, made mainly of clay and sand). Of course, these volcanoes are not hot at all, on the contrary, t... |
15 August 2007
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