The 15 Biggest Things that ever existed or lived on Earth to date (Part-2)

Humans are always obsessed with something big. All things. Especially those who had lived before or existed to this day on Earth. From the biggest animals to the largest flower petals.

Quote of Carlos Slim. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2wE42pb)

Here are the 2nd part or it can be said as the 7 Biggest things that existed to this day on our amazing planet that make us all feel very small also:

7. The Biggest Cave on Earth
A cave located in Phong Nha-Ka Bang National Park in Vietnam is crowned as the biggest and most beautiful cave in the world. The cave has a length of more than 5 kilometers with a width of 150 meters.

Inside one of the caves in Phong Nha National Park, Vietnam. (Picture from: https://bit.ly/3njJivv)

6. The Biggest Tree on Earth
The sequoia tree is the largest living thing on planet earth to date. This tree can grow as high as 275 feet (83.82 meters), with a diameter of 8 meters.

Sequoia tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum) at Sequoia National Park. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2gAivcx)

5. The Biggest Living Organism on Earth

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living organism on the planet with a length of 2,300 kilometers. It is a mosaic of about 2,900 offshore reefs and coastal waters. By comparison, the reef ecosystem of 135,000 square miles is the same as the size of the German's territory.

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2gAplii)

4. The Biggest Mushroom on Earth 
Armillaria solidipes that grows in the region of Blue Montains, Oregon, United States. This fungus covers an area of ​​965 hectares or about 1665 times the area of ​​football field. This largest mushroom was discovered in 1998. It is estimated that this fungus is already 2,400 years old.

Armillaria solidipes is one of the biggest mushroom ever known. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2wAlNpA)

3. The Biggest Fruit on Earth Today
Jackfruit is the largest fruit on earth that grows from trees. The biggest jackfruit can reach 90 cm with 50 cm diameter.

The Jackfruit is the largest tree borne fruit in the world. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2eFJ0At)

2. The Biggest Flower in the World

Rafflesia arnoldi is the largest flower in the world. This Indonesian flower can reach weight 24 Kg with height 100 cm.

Rafflesia Arnoldii is blooming in the Taba Penanjung Nature Reserve, Bengkulu. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2wDedZO)

1. The Biggest Animals on Earth Today
Blue whales are the largest animals that living on Earth today. Its length reaches 33 meters with a weight of nearly 150 tons.

The Blue Whales is the biggest animal on Earth today. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2gH4ptL)

That's the 15 biggest things that ever existed or lived on Earth to date. It is fitting for us when living on Earth should be smart to be grateful, humble and always distanced themselves from the arrogance and feel as the greatest. (Back to previous part.) *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | DREAM.CO.ID]

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The 15 Biggest Things that ever existed or lived on Earth to date (Part-1)

Humans are always obsessed with something big. All things. Especially those who had lived before or existed to this day on Earth. From the biggest animals to the largest flower petals. 

Quote of Chad Michael Murray. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2x6J83O)

Here are the first part or it can be said as the 8 Biggest things that ever lived on Earth that make us all feel very small:

15. The Biggest Beast Ever Lived on Earth

Amphicoelia is the biggest animal ever to live on Earth. This herbivorous dinosaur lived about 145-161 million years ago. Because of its size, Amphicoelia can have a length up to 58 meters.

Amphicoelia is the biggest animal ever to live on Earth. (Picture from: https://bit.ly/3jGlwHJ)

14. The Biggest Flying Animals Ever Lived on Earth

Quetzalcoatlus that lived about 66-68 million years ago. This pterosaur is the largest flying animal in the history of the planet. Its wings span can reach 12-15 meters.

The size of Quetzalcoatlus compares with human and giraffe. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2iYTyfh)

13. The Biggest Bird Ever Lived on Earth

Argentavis that lived about 5-8 million years ago. This biggest creature is one of the largest birds in Earth's history. The length of its wings alone can reach nearly 7 meters. Uniquely, Argentavis loves eating (ancient) mice.

The Argentavis is one of the largest birds to ever roam the skies. (Picture from: https://bit.ly/3npjtKn)

12. The Biggest Snake Ever Lived on Earth

Titanoboa who ever lived about 58-61 million years ago. This 'monster' is still related to the Boa snake has a length of up to 13 meters!

Replica of Titanoboa snake monster at New York Grand Central Station on March 22. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2eXDm9K)

11. The Biggest Deer Ever Live on Earth

The Irish Elk or Giant Deer (Megaloceros giganteus) is the biggest deer that ever lived. The last species of this animal is estimated to live about 7,700 years ago. This giant deer has a size of about 2.1 meters or 7 feet high up on his shoulders. It has the largest antler horn of each cervid, about 3.65 meters / 12 meters from end to end and weighs up to 90 pounds.

The Irish Elk or Giant Deer (Megaloceros giganteus) is the biggest deer that ever lived. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2eXVkJa)

10. The Biggest Bear Ever Lived on Earth

The giant short-faced bear (Arctodus) is one of the largest carnivorous mammals that ever lived on earth during the ice age. If standing, this bear has a height of 4.5 meters. The bear with the strongest jaw on earth was extinct about 14,000 years ago.

The giant short-faced bear (Arctodus Simus) is the biggest bear that ever lived on Earth. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2gH4ptL)

9. The Biggest Ape Ever Lived on Earth

Gigantopithecus is the greatest ape of all time, it lived about 1 million years ago. Scientists believe that Gigantopithecus has a height of about 4 meters, weighs 550 kilos, and most eat bamboo.

The Gigantopithecus is the biggest ape that ever lived on Earth. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2wAqCiR)

8. The Biggest Sea Scorpion Ever Lived on Earth

Jaekelopterus rhenaniae is the biggest bug ever known. Its fearsome fossil claw discovered in Germany has size of a large crocodile, 390-million-year-old sea scorpion was the top predator of its day, slicing up fish and cannibalizing its own kind in coastal swamp waters, fossil experts say. They can grow up to 2.5 meters.

The Jaekelopterus rhenaniae is the biggest bug ever known lived on Earth. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2gGnbBi)

The first part is closed up here and will continue on the next section which can be said to be the 7 Biggest things that ever lived on Earth to this day. (Jump to next part) *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | DREAM.CO.ID]

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Turned out the Moon was 4.51 billion years old

According to scientists, it turns out the moon was older than previously thought, which is 4.51 billion years old. Thus the latest estimates, thanks to the rocks and soil samples collected by the astronauts of Apollo 14 on the moon.

The study has put the age of the Moon at at least 4.51 billion years — up to 140 million years older than previously thought, according to a new study of minerals called zircons brought back from the lunar body to the Earth by the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1iDSow)

A team of researchers reported on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 that the moon formed within 60 million years of the birth of the solar system. The estimates range from 100 million the previous year, then to 200 million years after the creation of the solar system, instead of the 4.6 billion years ago.

Scientists are calculating the age of the moon by using the uranium-lead zircon metal fragments were extracted from samples of moon taken from the Apollo 14 missions. The pieces of zircon was very small, no bigger than a grain of sand.

"Size does not matter, because the fragments record an incredible information!" said the study's lead author Melanie Barboni from the University of California, Los Angeles. She added that the moon has "so many wonders key to understanding how our beautiful Earth formed and evolved."

Some of the eight samples of zircon has been used in a previous study, also conducted at UCLA. Barboni said that she was learning more zircon samples from the Apollo 14, but she expects it will not change the estimated age of the moon is around 4.51 billion year, at most only be 4.52 billion years old.

This is astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. on the moon in 1971 with the Apollo 14 mission. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1iDSJF)

As we lall knew, the Apollo 14 astronauts, Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell collected approximately 41.73 kilograms and uses tubes to dig the ground while exploring the Fra Mauro highlands in February 1971. They walk twice on the moon, as a whole for nine hours on the lunar surface.

And this is the second major study of the moon on this week. Earlier, on Monday, Israeli scientists concluded that the moon may have formed from many mini moons. The moon, according to them, are not formed from the massive giant power hit and release the body parts of the Earth, but from a series of smaller collision may have created many moons eventually merge into one.

This giant force theory says that the result of the blow energy forming the moon lava ocean later becomes solid. This solidification age which is now confirmed by the Barboni and her team.

Barboni said like any process of formation of the moon, the result is the compaction of the moon as it is known today. "We finally determine the minimum age of the formation of the moon, however the process," she said. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | SCIENCEDAILY]

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A mysterious object believed to be "hiding" under the Antarctic ice sheet

Scientists believe, an unusually large object could change our knowledge of the history of the world. The objects hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet. Yes, this anomaly is believed to lurk a frozen region called Wilkes Land, an area of ​​243 square kilometers with a depth of 823 meters.

The researchers believe, the object is the remains of the massive asteroid, two-times greater than the Chicxulub space rock which touted as the cause of of the dinosaurs extinction.

The overall sightings of Earth's south pole. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1hmu1j)

If their explanation is correct, it means the asteroid is the cause of the extinction of the Permian-Triassic era, which kills 96% of sea creatures and 70% vertebrates that live in the soil surface on Earth.

The strangeness of nature called "Wilkes Land gravity anomaly" was first discovered in 2006, when NASA satellites see changes of gravity through the presence of a large object. Its location in the middle of the crater impact, diameter of 482 kilometers. The discovery was back in a matter of debate after a group of UFO hunters, Secure Team 10, posted a video about the peculiarities of the Earth's south pole.

Ice is seen floating at the South Pole. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1hmu1j)

"To this day, scientists could not conclude what exactly was 'hiding' under thick layer of ice," a narrator says in the video, as reported in the New York Post.

"These ice continent remains a continent shrouded in mystery until now." In fact, in the video also said, that Nazis once constructs a secret military base in the South Pole during World War II. The goal was as production base of their advanced aircraft.

A mountain rising permafrost western part of the South Pole. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1hmu1j)

The debate on the internet is still in progress. However, the scientists who first noticed the strangeness believe that the object was evidence of massive asteroid collision crater.

"The collision impact in Wilkes Land is much greater than the collision that wiped out the dinosaurs. It could be led onto a massive disaster at the time," said Ralph von Frese, a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University, who discovered it in 2006.

"All the natural changes that occur due to the collision impact which certain to lead to an environment that is almost impossible to survive in it. It makes perfect sense many lives extinct after the massive collision event," he said. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | NEW YORK TIMES]

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Scientists found a new organ in the human body after centuries

Scientists have discovered a new organ in the human body? Yes, J. Calvin Coffey a professor of surgery at University of Limerick, Ireland has announced that the membrane which meander in the human gut is a new organ with the name of the mesentery.

"Reclassification of mesentery as an organ was universally relevant because it affects us all," Coffey said in a statement, as quoted by LiveScience, Tuesday, January 3, 2017.

The mesentery (yellow) connects the small and large intestines (pink). (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1hVz9O)

Scientists from the Mayo Clinic has previously been aware of the structure that connects the small and large intestines to the abdominal wall and tied in place. However, until now, the structure was considered a separate membrane by most scientists. And interestingly, in one of the initial description, Leonardo da Vinci was identified this membrane as a single structure. 

And Proff. Calvin Coffey and his colleagues looked at the past studies and literatures of the mesentery. He noted that throughout the 20th century, many anatomy books have explained the mesentery as a series of fragmented membrane. It's mean, the mesentery associated with various parts of the intestine. 

He led the study to view the mesentery in patients undergoing colorectal surgery and corpses. The findings of a study which concluded that these membrane is a separate organ, as published in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal in November 2016 edition.

Proff. J. Calvin Coffey, a professor of surgery at the University of Limerick in Ireland, has concluded that the mesentery, which is a membrane found in the gut, is its own organ. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1hVz9O)

"By recognizing anatomy and structure of the mesentery, now scientists can focus on learning more about how the organ functions," said Coffey. According to him, scientists can learn about the diseases associated with the mesentery. If you can also understand the functions, and you can identify abnormal function, he said further.

According to the article, the continuous nature of the mesentery, for example, can serve as a means for the disease to spread from one part of the stomach to the other.

"In addition to studying the disease, researchers are also able to see a new approach to the mesentery for surgery," said the authors. The authors noted that many anatomical and other features of the mesentery that still need to be explained.

For example, mesentery classified into what kind of body system? "Do the mesentery should be seen as part of the intestine, vascular, endocrine, cardiovascular or immunological system, it was remain unclear because it has an important role in all of them," the authors write.

While many organs have different functions in the body, the different functions of the mesentery is still unknown.. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LIVESCIENCE]

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Ebola vaccine trials claimed hundred percent successful

Researchers who recently reported the successful testing Ebola vaccine up to 100 percent to  protect against those deadly disease. Even if the vaccine was not yet been approved by the appropriate authorities, but the study reported by The Lancet medical journal is considered very effective. In fact, the research that took place in Guinea was mentioned to have an emergency supply of 300,000 doses of Ebola vaccine to prevent the outbreak returned widespread.

No Ebola cases were recorded 10 days or more after the vaccination, among the 5,837 people who received it. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1h8TzE)

"Although it is too late for those who have lost their lives because of the epidemic of Ebola in West Africa, this vaccine may be a way we survive," said Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director General of Systems and Innovation at the World Health Organization (WHO) at the same time as the lead author of those research report.

Since the first Ebola case is discovered in the former area of Zaire in 1976, people have been making every effort to create a vaccine. It all started because of the emergency, but these efforts should be halted because of lack of funds.

WHO noted that approximately 1,600 people die due to the Ebola during the past few years, so become reputed as frightening disease. In 2014 an Ebola outbreak attacked 11,000 people in Africa and spread out around the world, and also killing some people in Europe and the United States. These series of events that made the competent authorities tried again to make an effective vaccine.

The test results of the vaccine trial in Guinea finally released on Thursday, December 22 2016 in The Lancet medical journal. The vaccine can not be used to stop the outbreak, but the prospects for vaccine supplies have now been brought optimism among the public health experts. The researchers have so far only suggests the Ebola possibility still lodged in various locations, such as trees and its spread is carried by bats.

The researchers say that the new vaccine still has some drawbacks, among others only worked against one of two types of Ebola virus alone, and there may be no long-term protection. In fact, some of the researchers also found that the side effects of the vaccine for the user, such as joint pain and headaches. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | SCROLL.IN]

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