AMAIZING ... The world's smallest frog found on the island of Borneo

TOKYO - A Japanese biologists have discovered a new species of the world's smallest frog. The discovery took place in Malaysia are still on the island of Borneo.

As quoted from The Japan Times, Thursday (04/28/2011), before three years ago has found the smallest frog in the world. Species that are found this time is one part of the frog genus, namely Microhyla.

Professor Masafumi Matsui, amphibian expert from Kyoto University who has been doing research in Borneo, describing the new species as a new type of narrow-mouthed little frog from the genus Microhyla.

Malang Microhyla Matsui is the name given to the new species. Animals are found in western Sarawak and western Sabah.

In the same report he also gave detailed evidence of species Microhyla borneensis aka 'World's Smallest Frog'.

Matsui said that Microhyla Malang and Microhyla borneensis are relatives, are similar in appearance but distinguishable by body size, color pattern and toes.

To date there are 32 recorded species of frog in the genus Microhyla worldwide.

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Amaizing... Ancient city of the Maya found in the Guatemalan

Ancient city of the Maya, Holtun, or Head of Stone, which was hidden for centuries found in the Guatemalan rain forest.

According to a study presented earlier this month, a three-dimensional maps can show hundreds of buildings covered by trees. Similarly, as quoted from the New Kerala, on Friday (29/04/2011).

Local residents around the site actually already know that there is a large building is hidden behind the forest, but only now that the archaeologists can discover the city.

By using GPS and advanced electronic devices, archaeologists managed to track the location of the city and a pyramid with seven levels.

Lead researcher Brigitte Kovacevich, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, warned that some buildings used as temapt burial of kings.

"Often archaeologists find largest pyramid or temple to find the tomb of the king, but in the era of 600 to 300 years BC, the king is not the center of culture, so maybe he was buried in the common house," said Kovacevich.

"That's what causes many kings from the time of the escape from the archaeologists," he added.

Ancient city of Head of Stone or Holtun, which measures one kilometer long and 0.5 kilometers wide, becoming one of the Mayan cultural center, and a place of living than 2 thousand people.

But this time, the building is buried by soil and trees, until almost hard to see with the naked eye.

The researchers hope to begin to explore and examine the building, including the pyramid at the center of the city.

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this place is The Hell In the world

This place is Hell in the world. Geographically, the Iranian plateau surrounded by mountains and is divided into a number of dry valleys. Dasht-e Lut, a large salt desert in the southeast region of Iran is one of the largest desert basin that exists.

The desert has a length of about 480 kilometers and 320 kilometers wide. In total, the total area of ​​Dasht-e Lut reaches approximately 51,800 square kilometers.


Dasht-e Lut desert valleys also are the most dry and hot in the world. According to NASA satellite record, there is one area where surface temperatures never reached 71 degrees Celsius. This is the record highest temperature ever occurred on Earth's surface.


The area was called Gandom Beriyan (roasted grain), the wide reach about 480 square kilometers. As quoted from Earth Snapshot, April 27, 2011, the cause of the high temperature in the region is because the surface is covered by volcanic lava.


The dark layer absorbs a lot of sunlight. Due to the temperature difference with the area that have different heights in the vicinity, the region formed the wind tunnel.


The eastern part of Dasht-e Lut is a full lowland salt content. In the middle of the mountains and friends have parallel grooves carved naturally by winds reaching 150 kilometers in length and height to 75 meters.


This area is also full of ravines and holes. In the southeast, there is a vast desert with sand dunes reaching a height of 300 meters. Sand dunes in the region is one of the highest in the world.

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