British scientists have compiled a list of 100 animals from the brink of extinction. These animals have virtually no “family”, respectively, their loss can critically affect the diversity of the animal world.

Why coffin should be a boring box, where you can order to be made in the form of a lobster, red pepper, poultry or shoe? Indigenous inhabitants of a small African nation of Ghana believes that the funeral - it’s not a sad farewell to the deceased, and the celebration of a man crossing the road to a better world. It is here that there was a tradition of putting the corpse in the coffin of a special bright intricate shapes.

See what can be overheard in the human body.

10-inch nail in his head stayed 6 days:

Baobab tree is famous for its unusual proportions. This is one of the thickest tree in the world - with an average circumference of the trunk 10.9 meters, height of 18-25 m (in the “Guinness Book of Records” for 1991 describes the baobab tree, which had a 54.5 m in circumference). At the top of the trunk is divided into thick, almost horizontal branches forming a large, up to 38 m in diameter, crown. In the dry season in winter, when the baobab clears leaves, he takes a curious form of the tree roots growing up. Life expectancy of the baobab is controversial - they do not tree rings, which can reliably calculate the age. Performed by the method of radiocarbon analysis (14C) counts showed more than 5500 years for a tree with a diameter of 4,5 m, although more conservative estimates baobabs live “only” 1000 years.

“Ice cream - frozen, usually sweet dessert product. Delicacy, which is a ledoobraznuyu mass, is used more for entertainment than for food. ” Such a definition of the word “ice” Wikipedia tells us. But we all know that our world is perfect as far as its rich diversity. After the mass around us is unusual, something we had never seen and even more so, never tried. So let’s move away from the stereotype of the “standard” ice cream and learn about some of the exotic. Few of us is how many different types of it exists, except, of course, have known each since childhood.

Fried ice cream

Yes, the wedding people are very colorful - and a not insignificant role in this is a wedding cake, as an indispensable attribute of the same wedding ceremony. But there are so unusual cake that only you wonder, who could come up with this. Well the bride to the groom, it would be interesting to see the reaction of relatives and invited guests.