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Mount Shirakami Sanchi
World Heritage

Mount Shirakami Sanchi

Unesco's Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization recognized the Shirakami Sanchi Mountains of Japan as a World Natural Heritage in 1993.

December 18, 2018
Portrait of 'food transporter' for the ocean floor
Oceanography

Portrait of 'food transporter' for the ocean floor

This strange creature named Larvaceans lives a few hundred meters from the water. By absorbing and processing all the oceanic floating nutrients, Larvaceans helped maint…

December 17, 2018
Sardines can produce silk like silkworms
Oceanography

Sardines can produce silk like silkworms

The non-jaw, invertebrate rocky grouper, which looks like giant worms, is a primitive species that lives on the ocean floor, present on the planet 500 million years ago.

December 17, 2018
Nautilus pompilius - Nautilus pompilius
Oceanography

Nautilus pompilius - Nautilus pompilius

Under the seabed a few hundred meters deep in the tropics, tropical Asia has a primitive animal species, which is the British snail. It can freely regulate the gas distr…

December 17, 2018
Sea jellyfish is a complex set of genes
Oceanography

Sea jellyfish is a complex set of genes

Sea jellyfish have long been considered a simple and primitive animal, but the inside of the jellyfish's seemingly simple body is a complex and remarkable set of genes,…

December 17, 2018
Found the oldest fossil on Earth
Archeology

Found the oldest fossil on Earth

The multinational team analyzed small rocks that were excavated five years ago, in the Strelley Pool, Pilbara (Western Australia).

December 17, 2018