WILD THINGS ABOUT THE AMAZON
Added on: 20th May 2016
A NEWLY DISCOVERED, BLIND, AND SUBTERRANEAN
ANT SPECIES IN THE AMAZON IS THOUGHT TO BE A
DIRECT DESCENDENT OF THE VERY FIRST
SPECIES OF ANT
SOME ANTS IN THE AMAZON ARE KNOWN FOR
RAIDING NEIGHBOURING COLONIES AND TAKING SLAVES
MARTIN STREL, A LONG DISTANCE SWIMMER FROM
SLOVENIA, ONCE SWAM THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF
THE AMAZON IN JUST OVER 2 MONTHS
FOR THREE WEEKS EVERY YEAR THE FULL MOON
CAUSES A TIDAL WAVE TO ROLL UP THE AMAZON
RIVER EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. SOME SURFERS HAVE
BEEN KNOWN TO RIDE THE WAVE FOR OVER
10 KILOMETRES
UNDERNEATH THE AMAZON IS ANOTHER RIVER.
IT IS ABOUT 4 KM DEEPER, SIGNIFICANTLY WIDER
AND JUST AS LONG. IT HAS BEEN NAMED THE RIO HAMZA
20% OF THE WORLD'S OXYGEN COMES FROM THE
AMAZON RAINFOREST
ALTHOUGH NUMEROUS EXPEDITIONS IN THE PAST
TRIED TO FIND THE LOST ANCIENT CITIES OF THE
AMAZON THAT WERE RUMOURED TO BE COVERED
IN GOLD, SCIENTISTS EVENTUALLY STARTED
DOUBTING THAT CIVILIZATION COULD PROSPER IN
SUCH HARSH CONDITIONS AND ON SUCH INFERTILE SOIL
SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE OF TERRA PRETA,
OR DARK SOIL, COVERING VAST PATCHES OF THE
AMAZON. THEY THINK THAT ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
COVERED THE GROUND WITH THIS MAN-MADE AND
NUTRIENT RICH SOIL WHICH WOULD HAVE ALLOWED
CITIES AND FARMS TO BE BUILT
17 YEAR OLD JULIANE KOEPCKE LANDED IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE AMAZON WHEN HER PLANE CRASHED.
ALL 91 OTHER PASSENGERS DIED BUT SHE WALKED
FOR 10 DAYS BEFORE RESCUERS FOUND HER
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