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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Highest, Longest, Tallest, Smallest, Heaviest, Fastest of Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Insects, Fishes...

MAMMALS
Largest and Heaviest	Blue Whale Average length 30.5 m Largest ever recorded 33.58 m Pregnant female may weigh 203 tones
Smallest Land Mammal	Kitti's hog-nosed Bat (Found in Thailand)² Wing span 16 cm weight 1.75 to 2 g
Smallest Marine Mammal	Probably Heaviside's dolphin (Found in South Atlantic) Length 1.22 m Weight 41 kg
Rarest Mammal Rarest Mammal	Aspecies of tenrec from Madagascar is only known from a single specimen.
Fastest Mammal	Cheetah (found in Africa, Middle East, W. Asia) can run at 100 kph over short distances. Pronhorn antelope (Found in USA) Can run at 60 kph over long distances.
Slowest Mammal	Three-toedsloth (found in South America) covers about 5 m a minute in trees, and only 2 m aminute on the ground.
Highest Mammal	Yak (found in Tibet and China) climbs to 6000 m to feed.
REPTILES
Largest and Heaviest	Estuarine Crocodile (found in Asia, Australia) Average length (male) up to 4.3 m Longest ever recorded 8.23 m
Largest Lizard	Komodo dragon (found in Indonesian Island) length up to 3 m
largest Turtle	Pacific leatherback turtle Average length (male) up to 2.13 m weight up to 363 kg.
Fastest Amphibian (On Land)	Six-linedracerunner (found in USA) can run at 29 kph
Fastest Amphibian (In Water)	(In Water) Pacific Leatherback turtlecan swim at 35 kph
Longest Snake	Reticulated Python (found in India and South-east Asia) Average length more than 6 m Longest ever recorded 10 m
Most Poisonous Snake	Sea Snake (found in North West Australia)
Most Poisonous Land Snake	Fierce Snake(found in Australia) has most toxic venom.
AMPHIBIANS
Largest Amphibian	Chinese gaintsalamander Average length 1m Longest ever recorded 1.52 m Weight 11 to 13 kg.
Largest Frog	Goliath Frog (found in Africa) Length of body 33.5 cm
Largest Toad	Probably marinetoad (found in South America) Length 22.9 cm.
Largest Newt	Ribbed newt (found in Africa) Length upto 40 cm Weight 450 g
Highest Toad	Common toad One found in Himalayas at 8000 m
Most Poisonous	Kokoiarrow-poison frog (found in South America) A tiny amount of toxin is enough to kill a man.
Smallest Newt	Striped newt (found in USA) length 5.1 cm
BIRDS
Largest Bird (Flightless)	North African Ostrich Height (male) 2.74 m Weight 156.5 kg eggs up to 20 cm long
Largest Wing Span	Wandering albatross (found in Southern Oceans) Average length (male) 3.15 m Largest ever recorded 3.6 m
Smallest Bird	Helena's humming bird (found in Cuba) Average length (male) 5.8 cm (head and body 1.5 cm) Weight 2 g Egg 1.14 cm long
Rarest Bird	Mauritius Kestrel (found in Mauritius) About 5 are thought to remain.
Fastest Bird	Spine-tailed swift (found in Russia and Himalayas) flies at 171 kph
Longest Flight	Arctic tern May cover 40,000 km a year migrating from Arctic to Antarctic and back.
Fastest Under Water	Gentoo Penguin swims at 36 kph
Largest Nest	Bald eagles one was 2.9 m wide and 6 m deep.
FISHES
Largest Fish (Plankton-eating)	Whale Shark Largest ever recorded 18.5 m long.
Largest Fish (Meat Eating)	Great white shark (the man-eater) Average length up to 4.57 m.
Heaviest Bony Fish	Ocean sunfish is the heaviest largest ever recorded 2.28 tonnes.
Longest Bony Fish	Russian sturgeon or Beluga Length up to 8 m
Fastest Fish	Probably Sailfish fastest ever recorded 109 kph
Most Poisonous Fish	Stonefish (foundin Indian and Pacific Oceans) Poison carried in spines can cause a person's death within a few hours.
Most Electric	Electric eel (found in South America) can produce 400 to 500 volts.
INSECTS
Largest Insect	Goliath beetle (found in Africa) Weight (male) 100g
Longest Insect	Tropical stick insect Length up to 33 cm
Largest locust Swarn	A Swarn of desert locusts that crossed the Red Sea in 1889. Swarn estimated to contain 250,000,000 insects weighing about 500,000 tonnes and covering 5,000 sq. km
Largest Butterfly	Queen Alexandra bird wing (found in Guinea) Wing span 28 cm, weight 5 g
Most Dangerous Ant	Black bulldog ant (found in Australia and Tasmaina) One bite can kill a man.
Fastest Wing Beat	A tiny midge can beat its wings 1000 times a second.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

2012 Tech News Update: Apple iPad Mini And iPhone 5 Coming Soon!

With the launch of the iPad and release of the iPhone 4, rumors of the next version of both devices are inevitable. While launch of a new iPad will not turn many heads, an early launch of iPhone 5 is a shocker.

iPad Mini:

A seven-inch-screened version of the iPad is substantially finished and will be ready for announcement either later this year or early in 2011. Apple has been prototyping devices with screens of this size for a long time—quite possibly predating the original iPhone.

iPhone 5:

According to our source—and we have to say that we find this part hard to believe—Apple is pushing up the release date of the fifth-generation iPhone to early 2011 (as soon as January) because of the antenna issues with the iPhone 4. It’s unknown whether this will be a repackaging of iPhone 4 components in a different shell or something more substantial. We reiterate: it’s hard to believe. But as with so many seemingly far-fetched early reports, it’s not impossible.

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Besides being “beautiful,” what actually makes this iPhone different? After attending the unveiling and talking with analysts and bloggers, here’s our quick list of 10 things you should know about the iPhone 4, which goes on sale June 24, and costs between $199 and $299. Let us know if you have more questions and feel free to leave thoughts of your own in the comments section at the bottom of this story.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs says the iPhone 4, which debuted on Monday, is the “biggest leap forward” the iPhone has made since it was introduced in 2007.

No 10. Multitasking

The iPhone’s operating system, which Apple calls iOS 4, got an upgrade along with the iPhone 4′s hardware. Among the most-awaited changes is multitasking, which means that the phone can run multiple applications at once. Want to listen to internet radio and check e-mail at the same time? Starting on June 21, you can with the iPhone.

Several other smartphones have featured multitasking for some time. So Apple is not blazing new territory here. Jobs says the company waited to add the feature until it could do so without sucking down too much of the phone’s battery life.

No 9. Video conferencing

In addition to the back-of-the-phone camera improvements, Apple also added a second camera to the iPhone 4, which faces its user. This can be used for video conferencing, which Apple and Jobs expect to be an emerging trend in mobile phone use. For more on this, see our story on mobile video conferencing.

No 8. Sharper screen

In his Monday keynote address at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Jobs sounded more excited about the iPhone 4′s new screen than anything else.

With 326 pixels per inch — four times that of previous Apple phones — Jobs says the iPhone 4′s “retina display” screen is years ahead of anything else on the market.

“Text looks like you’ve seen it in a fine printed book — unlike you’ve ever seen on an electronic display before,” he said. “Once you’ve used a retina display you can’t go back.”

No 7. Gyroscope

“These phones are getting more and more intelligent about the world around them,” Jobs said. That’s true of the iPhone 4, which has five sensors, including a gyroscope.

What does that mean for users? Probably cooler games and apps. The iPhone 4′s internal gyroscope can sense motion on six axes. On Monday, Jobs showed a demo where he pivoted in a circle, and the stack of blocks in an app spun with him. The phone is basically more aware of where it is in the world, in relation to gravity, than it was before. It’s hard to say exactly what app developers will do with this, but likely something.

No 6. Thickness

The iPhone 4 will be the thinnest smartphone on the market, Jobs says. At 9.3 millimeters (0.37 inches) thick, it is 24 percent thinner than the previous iPhone model, the 3GS, he said.
“I don’t think there’s another consumer product like this,” he said. “When you hold it in your hand it’s unbelievable.” The iPhone 4′s screen remains the same size as before, 3.5 inches when measured diagonally. That makes it smaller than some Android phones, which are its main competitors. But that may not be a good thing. As people watch more video on their phones, they’re demanding larger screens, some analysts say.

No 5. Camera flash

In what’s largely seen as a catch-up move, Apple added an LED flash to the iPhone 4′s camera, which lets mobile photographers shoot photos and video more easily at night.

No 4. Better camera

The quality of the iPhone 4′s camera is improved over previous models. The iPhone 4 shoots photos with 5 megapixels of resolution, compared to 3 megapixels before. That’s still not the best on the market. The HTC Droid Incredible has an 8-megapixel camera, for example. The Nexus One, another competitor, has a 5-megapixel camera, too.

The iPhone 4 also shoots HD video, and a video-editing app called iMovie, which Apple will sell, allows people to shoot, edit and share videos with the phone.

No 3. Stainless steel antennae

The iPhone 4 is flat on the front and back, and a band of stainless steel goes around the edge as a trim. This isn’t just a design feature, Jobs said. It’s actually the antennae.

“It’s never been done before and it’s really cool engineering,” Jobs said.

No 2. Processor

The iPhone 4 has a new processor — the A4 — which Apple says makes the phone faster than competitors and faster than the processor in the iPhone 3GS. Apple debuted the A4 processor as part of the iPad slate computer in January.

But the iPhone 4′s capacity to store books, videos and music disappointed some. The high-end model stores 32 gigabytes of data, which isn’t any more than the iPhone 3GS.

No 1. Wireless carrier

The iPhone 4 is only available with a contract from the wireless carrier AT&T. That’s bad news for some people. Bloggers have been begging Apple to open the iPhone to multiple carriers — and specifically to Verizon — for some time. Some iPhone users, particularly those in bigger cities like New York and San Francisco, have complained that AT&T drops their calls and doesn’t handle data requests quickly enough.