The tragic Yemenia Flight 626 has taken the lives of more than 150 passengers of the A310-324 aircraft. Based on the final report, the inappropriate flight controls and the crew’s ignorance of the plane-issued warnings resulted in its crashing. But were there any survivors? Bahia Bakari, a 12-year-old French girl, was the only survivor of […]
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There are so many reasons why extinction occurs. This could be caused by natural disasters, evolutionary changes, or even overexploitation. But there are instances when certain species seemingly come back. The Aldabra rail, a flightless bird, was wiped out along with all the terrestrial animals that once lived on Aldabra. A massive flood sank a
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Kyrgyzstan: The Furthest Country From Any Ocean Kyrgyzstan is far from everywhere, it seems, including the ocean. When you picture the country furthest from any ocean, you might well imagine somewhere dry and uninteresting, comprised of arid desert and not much else. You’d be wrong. The country furthest from any ocean is actually Kyrgyzstan, famous
Blue whale For other uses, see Blue whale (disambiguation). The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whale parvorder, Mysticeti. At up to 29.9 metres (98 ft) in length and with a maximum recorded weight of 173 tonnes (190 short tons), it is the largest animal known to have ever
