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The World’s Deepest Cave Known As ‘Everest Of The Caves’

krubera cave Georgie Have A Glimpse Of Krubera Cave, The Deepest Cave In The World! The cave, known as Krubera-Voronya, is considered the “Everest of the caves”. The total length of cave passages reaches 13,232 m, the depth is -2,197 … Continue reading

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World’s best piece of opal Worth $900,000 (Photos)

‘Fire Of Australia’ Glitters At South Australian Museum – National Geographic World’s best piece of uncut opal finds new house on the South Australian Museum The best uncut opal in existence, the Fire of Australia, has joined the South Australian … Continue reading

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World’s Largest Cluster of Sinkholes Discovered

Mysterious: A group of 49 sinkholes have been discovered in the Qinling mountains in China The caverns were found in an area of 230 square miles in north-west China Forty-nine sinkholes were found in China by researchers, who say the … Continue reading

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World’s Deepest Underwater Cave Discovered

World’s Deepest Underwater Cave Discovered A team of explorers say they’ve discovered that a cave in the eastern Czech Republic is the world’s deepest flooded fissure, going at least 404 meters (1,325 feet) deep. Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski, who led … Continue reading

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Taking stock of the world’s lakes

The most complete global database yet of the world’s lakes promises to help scientists better understand the important role of lakes in the Earth’s complex environmental systems. Geology News — ScienceDaily

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World’s Most Amazing Gemstone Found in Volcano

Helenite is a man-made glass made from the fused volcanic rock dust from Mount St. Helenite is a man-made glass made from the fused volcanic rock dust from Mount St. Helens and marketed as a gemstone. Helenite was first created … Continue reading

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The world’s smallest dinosaur?

The ‘Ashdown maniraptoran’ Most palaeontologists now accept that birds are descended from non-avian dinosaurs and are therefore the only living representatives of otherwise terrestrial animals that ruled the world during the Mesozoic. That being the case, the Cuban bee hummingbird, … Continue reading

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The World’s Rarest Minerals Are Finally Cataloged

Nevadaite is one of the world’s rarest minerals. It is formed from the elements vanadium and copper under very specific and extreme environmental conditions. The mineral crystals are a bright blue color but microscopic. Nevadaite is only found in two … Continue reading

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The world’s most complex crystal never repeats

A Ho-Mg-Zn icosahedral quasicrystal formed as a pentagonal dodecahedron, the dual of the icosahedron. Unlike the similar pyritohedron shape of some cubic-system crystals such as pyrite, the quasicrystal has faces that are true regular pentagons The most complicated crystal structure … Continue reading

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The world’s oldest farmers were insects

An international team of researchers has discovered the oldest fossil evidence of agriculture, not by humans, but by insects. Strange & Offbeat: Fossils & Ruins News — ScienceDaily

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