Just Interesting Stories - New Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

Just Interesting Stories - New Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest.

There are vast areas of the Southern Amazon  which are now thought to have hosted extremely large human communities.

In  the area of Mato Groso in Brazil, anthropologists discovered a network of towns and villages surrounded by walls. These areas, which are now overgrown with tropical rain forest, cover an area of approximately 30,000 square killometres.  Some towns occupied areas covering 60 hectares. The settlements date from 1250 to 1650 before European colonists arrived, most probably bringing  with them diseases that the native people could not fight off.

Just Intresting Stories - Sandkat. Stray Baggage!!

Ever lost your luggage on-route?

Loss of luggage during air travel is definately not infrequent.  It has been estimated that around 42 million bags  go missing annually, this figure increases by approximately 25% per year as air travel increases.  Most bags are delivered back to their owners within 48 hours but 1 in every 2000 customers (or 3%) will never see their baggage again! 
Lost baggage costs the airlines around 4 billion dollars per year.  Amongst some of the causes that airlines quote are : congestion due to increasing numbers of passengers, tight turnaround times, mishandling of baggage and tagging errors.

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Fishermen accidentally caught a Colossal Squid in 2007 just off the coast of Antarctica. This sea monster weighed in at 500 kilograms and was ten metres in length.
Another Squid known as a "Giant Squid" for obvious reasons, has eyes which can be as large as a man's head. Its beak is strong enough to break through a steel cable. This Squid is powerful enough to catapult itself out of the water and can swim at up to 30 kilometres an hour.
These creatures are so elusive they have never been studied in the wild.