Angel falls - The highest waterfall in the world

The highest waterfall in the world - Angel. Waterfall's height is 979 meters (according to some information 1059 meters), height of continuous falling is 807 meters. Angel falls is named in honour of pilot James Ankhelya who has flown through the falls in 1935. Angel waterfall is located in wild district of Venezuela, and it is possible to reach there only by air.

Whale Shark - Biggest fish in the world

Whale Shark (Rhinodon typus) - Biggest fish in the world. Whale Shark the largest kind of sharks, and also largest of nowadays living fishes. Whale sharks often grow to 45 feet and 15 tons.
Despite the impressive sizes, the whale shark is absolutely safe for the humans, as eats like a whale, exclusively plankton and other small organisms which it filters, involving in itself water.









Some pics and videos of world's biggest fish.

Spruce - The oldest tree in the world

The oldest tree in the world - Spruce is found in Swedish province Dalarna on the Fulu mountain. Tree is 9550 years old. Lot of years this tree was regarded as youngish. However new research has shown, that it not so, it's young trunk of ancient tree.

It is known, that Spruce growing in the Swedish mountains can survive in heavy conditions thanks to ability to grow up from root system the second trunk instead of the died.

Though the last of 10 thousand years the climate here was adverse, these trees have remained. And as last 100 years the average temperature of air in area Fulu has risen on one degree °C, ancient Spruce have begun to grow up actively. So, the young trunk of that 9550-year-old record-holder has started to last upwards, apparently, somewhere in 1940.

The previous oldest trees - pines in the North America - were dated 4-5 thousand years.