The Richat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara and Guelb er Richat, is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of west–central Mauritania near Ouadane. This structure is a deeply eroded, slightly elliptical, 40-km in diameter, dome. The sedimentary rock exposed in this dome range in age from Late Proterozoic within the center of the dome to Ordovician sandstone around its edges. The sedimentary rocks comprising this structure dip outward at 10°-20°. Differential erosi...

Millions of them that descended upon the Russian village of Mikoltsy near Myadel, Belarus, in the Minsk region on May 14. The mosquitoes were so loud that even cars could not be heard. Photographer Dennis Sour managed to capture this unusual phenomenon. Such activity of mosquitoes is probably caused by the weather. Last year in Pakistan, rising flood waters drove millions of spiders up into the trees where they wove webs completely cocooning the trees.

A papyrus found in the vicinity would tell his encounter with the Pharaoh Khufu convinced that he would build the Great Pyramid as a tomb for him after he had announced the future arrival of other beings of his species. Source: the Egyptian magazine "Rose El-Yussuf" relayed by "The Wo...