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POPSUnderwater Gardens These are utterly amazing scroll through the slides on the source page. Here is a quote from Aquascaping: Aquarium meets terrarium in the Japanese-inspired design practice: "In the display tanks of Aqua Forest Aquarium, there is no neon gravel, no miniature plastic castles, no sunken treasure boxes sprinkled with glitter. Instead, owners and brothers George and Steven Lo have created natural replicas of miniature underwater worlds: a branched piece of driftwood draped with dark green moss, a lush undulating fern-filled forest, a peaceful grassy meadow and, in a tiny 5 1/2 -gallon tank, a jewel box water-filled terrarium. Small fish and shrimp dot these environments, but like a flock of birds or grazing cattle in a landscape painting, they are only supporting characters. Here, the underwater plants get the attention." These are truly beautiful, just like bonsai or ikebana.
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POPSMan-Eating Bird - Non-Fiction
WOW!!! With a wingspan of up to three metres and weighing 18kg, the female was twice as big as the largest living eagle, the Steller's sea eagle. And the bird's talons were as big as a tiger's claws. "It was certainly capable of swooping down and taking a child," said Paul Scofield, the curator of vertebrate zoology at the Canterbury Museum. "They had the ability to not only strike with their talons but to close the talons and put them through quite solid objects such as a pelvis. It was designed as a killing machine." Its main prey would have been moa, flightless birds which grew to as much as 250kg and 2.5 metres tall. "In some fossil sites, moa bones have been found with signs of eagle predation," Dr Scofield said. New Zealand has no native land mammals because it became isolated from other continents in the Cretaceous, more than 65 million years ago. As a result, birds filled niches usually populated by large mammals such as deer and cattle. "Haast's eagle wasn't just the e
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POPSRe-Discovery of the Tasman Booby "But it was only when a group of naturalists, paleontologists, and geneticists pooled their expertise that these suspicions could be put to the test, said Tammy Steeves of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, who led the new study. The researchers compared fossilized and modern bones and DNA from specimens identified as Tasman and masked boobies. Physically, the fossil bones looked strikingly similar to their modern counterparts. More important, the DNA was a perfect match, Steeves said." The Tasman booby, the study suggests, never actually went extinct. The bird's been hanging out for the past few hundred years under the "assumed" name of the masked booby.
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POPSArctic Wolf There is actually video footage at source site that wouldn't clip.
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POPSWater Flows The call was strong to get out today (early morning) wanted to listen to the wind and birds in the trees. Had no idea what to focus on, and found myself drawn to the water. Best viewed as slideshow. Click link at top of the page or try this link. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/SN78oLVmKTS1JClZ_p2qyA?authkey=Gv1sRgCNrtzJP3pauWFg&feat=directlink
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