In many myths, the egg is a symbol of the universe, in Ancient Greek mythology Helen of Troy hatched from the egg, death of Koshchey the Immortal was hidden in an egg. Anyway, the egg is associated with the birth of new life.
Let’s look at the most unusual eggs.

Shark eggs

Eggs of these menacing sea creatures have a very strange shape. It is also called a mermaid’s purse or devil’s purse. The egg is in a thin capsule which is filled with collagen. Shark eggs are usually as large as a human palm. But there is a fixed record of 2 meters. The shark leaves the eggs at the bottom. It happens that there are several sharks in the same egg and the strongest eats the others.
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The first flowering plants blossomed in the midst of the era of the dinosaurs – 140 million years ago. Probably you think that plants are delicate and harmless. But there are different plants that feed on insects, and each one seems to be as clever and as cruel as any animal that goes hunting for its food. Carnivorous plants have the subject of some captivating tales of science fiction, involving fantastic trees that consume large, unwary creatures in tropical forests. Most carnivorous plants grow in acidic bogs, unproductive lakes, or sandy soils. These are all habitats that are poor in the nutrients that plants require for growth. Most species of carnivorous plants are rare, and many are endangered.

Venus’s-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) grows in certain parts of North and South Carolina. This plant is the most business-like insect eater of all. When a fly touches the hairs that grow along the leaf, the plant snaps it shut like a trap. After the fly is digested by juices in the plant, it opens up again.
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According to the druid horoscope each one of us was born under a special tree. To tell the truth I’ve found several a little bit different variants.
Find your birthday below to learn what your tree is and read about your personality.

December 24 to January 2 – June 23 to July 2 – Apple Tree
January 3 to January 12 – July 3 to July 12 – Fir Tree
January 13 to January 21 – July 13 to July 22 – Elm Tree
January 22 to February 1 – July 23 to August 1 – Cypress
February 2 to February 10 – August 2 to August 11 – Poplar
February 11 to February 20 – August 12 to August 21 – Cedar
February 21 to March 1 – August 22 to September 1 – Pine
March 2 to March 11 – September 2 to September 11 – Weeping Willow
March 12 to March 21 – September 12 to September 21 – Lime
March 21-23 – Oak
September 22-23 – Olive Tree
March 24 to March 31 – September 24 to October 3 – Walnut tree
April 1 to April 10 – October 4 to October 13 – Rowan
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The Bermuda Triangle, also known as Devil’s Triangle. It is one of the strangest and most mysterious places on our planet. A lot of planes, ships and helicopters disappeared in this area. They just seem to vanish into the air.
In 1492 when Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage to the New World he wrote in his log that his compass acted very strangely. He and his crew were confused by shallow areas of sea with no land nearby.
The Bermuda Triangle lies in the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico and is about 1.3 million square kilometers in size.
It is notorious for gobbling up ships. American naval ship Cyclops was of the most famous ships which disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. In March, 1918, during World War I, it set sail from Bermuda and was never seen again. The Cyclops vanished without a trace, taking with it 306 crew members.
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Deep under the Earth’s surface it’s so hot that even rock melts. Molten rock is called magma. Magma released from a volcano is known as lava. Fresh lava ranges from 1,300° to 2,200° F (700° to 1,200° C) in temperature. As it cools, it hardens into rock. Because of the wind, volcanic ash can coat the land for miles around the volcano. Some volcanoes release clouds of poisonous gas or huge clouds of ash.
They have been called the thermostat of the planet.
Many haven’t erupted in years and have cooled off, and they are called “dead volcanoes.”
There are “sleeping volcanoes” which may “wake up” someday and start erupting. For example, Mount Vesuvius in Italy slept for a thousand years and in AD 79 it suddenly woke up. Its hot lava buried the city of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Some volcanoes help provide heat and energy. Many Icelandic homes get their hot water from springs heated by volcanic steam.
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Valentin Zhiganov is called one of the most interesting photographers in Russia. He sometimes takes photos of landscapes and people, but northern lights or auroras are his passion. Stunning photos become very popular on the Internet. But there is very little information about their author, who lives in Apatity.
Valentin works in the publishing department of the Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He publishes scientific literature and photography is his hobby. Valentin became interested in photography at school. It was in the 1990s. He photographed nature, friends, classmates. At that time there were no digital cameras, so he had to print photos. Later modern equipment and workshops for printing color pictures appeared and it became much more interesting and easier to take photographs. At that time he was seriously interested in landscape photography and even today he likes taking photos of northern nature to show people its beauty.
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In August 1980, farmer John Scull was surprised to find a circle eighteen metres across in one of his fields in Wiltshire.
This was the first of the now famous ‘crop circles’ of the 1980s. Since then 10,000 more crop circles have appeared from Japan and China to the United States and Brazil, however, about 90% of all circles appear in England in Wiltshire.
Although the shapes began as ordinary circles, over the years they have become more and more interesting. To draw some of them, you need to do difficult mathematics. They are also very large: the biggest are about 300 metres across. Scientists who have studied the circles say that some of them are perhaps made by the weather, by a special kind of storm. We know that they have appeared since the seventeenth century — when people believed they were made by magic. Some people still think that they are made by magic, or by visitors from another planet flying above the fields!
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