Author: Ashwini R

A salp is a barrel-shaped tunicate (a marine invertebrate animal). It moves by contracting, thus pumping water through its gelatinous body. The salp strains the pumped water through its internal feeding filters. Salps are...

Boxfishes can be found in reefs throughout the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean as well as the south eastern Atlantic Ocean. It reaches a maximum length of 49 cm. As the name suggests, it...

Jawfish are native to warmer parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, where found from the shallows to depths of a few hundred meters. Most jawfish species are small fish up to 10...

The puffer fish (also known as the blowfish, balloonfish, bubblefish and the toadfish) is a medium-sized species. The puffer fish is most well known for it’s unique and distinctive adaptations that the puffer fish...

Fangtooths are beryciform fish of the family Anoplogastridae. The fish live in the deep sea. Fangtooths are actually quite small and harmless to humans. There are two species: Common Fangtooth and Shortthorn Fangtooth. Common...

Chandra Bahadur Dangi Chandra Bahadur Dangi born 30 November 1939 and he is the shortest man in the world as per the Guinness World Record book with the height of 0.546 m. He broke...

Sultan Kosen Sultan Kosen is a Turkish Kurdish farmer who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living male at 8 ft 3 inch. His growth resulted from a tumour affecting his pituitary gland....

General Sherman The General Sherman is a giant sequoia tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California. It is the largest known living single stem tree on earth....

The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is a species of terrestrial hermit crab and it’s also known as the robber crab or palm thief. It is the largest land-living arthropod in the world. The weight...

Mammatus also known as mammatocumulus, the meaning is “mammary cloud”. It  is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. The name mammatus is derived...

Pani Puri The Panipuri is a popular street snack in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Nepal. It consists of a round, hollow puri, fried crisp and filled with a mixture of flavored water,...

British Museum Reading Room The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum and it is used to be the main reading room of the British...

Hoi An also known as Fai-Fo or Faifoo is a city of Vietnam. It is located in Quang Nam Province and is home to approximately 120,000 inhabitants. It is recognized as a World Heritage...

Langkawi is an archipelago of 104 islands in the Andaman Sea, Malaysia. The islands are a part of the state of Kedah, which is adjacent to the Thai border. Langkawi is a duty-free island....

The Yellow River or Huang He is the third-longest river in Asia following the Yangtze River and Yenisei River. It is the sixth-longest in the world at the length of 5,464 km. The Yellow...

An iceberg is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice....

Zhouzhuang is a town in China. It is located within Kunshan county-level city, 30 km southeast of Suzhou. Zhouzhuang is a popular tourist destination. It is one of the most famous water townships in...

Dubai Fountain The Dubai Fountain is the world’s largest choreographed fountain system set on the 30-acre manmade Burj Khalifa Lake. It was designed by WET Design and it is the California-based company responsible for...

Punalu’u Beach – Hawaii Punalu’u Beach also called Black Sand Beach. Punalu’u Beach is a beach between Pahala and Naalehu on the Big Island of the U.S. state of Hawaii. The beach has black...

Canton Tower – China Canton tower is 600 metre tall and it’s multi-purpose observation tower in China. It was the tallest structure in China prior to the topping out of Shanghai Tower on 3...