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Across the Mississippi River from St. Louis there once was a thriving city of 20,000 American Indians from many different cultures — making it at the time the largest and most sophisticated city in North America outside Mexico, with a larger population than European cities like London.

Skinwalker Ranch Mysterious

Few if any presumed UFO sites are as rich with conspiracy as the one formerly owned by billionaire Robert Bigelow in the Utah wilderness 150 miles east of Salt Lake City. It helps that a movie in the found-footage genre called “Skinwalker Ranch” was filmed there in 2013, and that the ranch was featured in the “Extraordinary Beliefs” documentary series. Add that to decades of mysterious sightings and encounters, and you have (allegedly) a full-fledged government cover-up in plain sight.

Whether you believe in extraterrestrials or paranormal activity, there’s no denying the bizarre at Skinwalker Ranch, where there have been reported sightings of UFOs, bigfoot-type creatures, animal mutilations, unexplained lights, poltergeist activity and crop circles. These things have been reported throughout Uintah County, but are in the highest concentration around the ranch.

The ranch was named after the Navajo legend about harmful witches who disguise themselves as, turn into or possess any animal.

La Zona del Silencio (Zone of Silence)

Deep in the northern deserts of Mexico is a 30-odd square-mile area where things are just a bit off. In the earthly realm, the Zone contains dozens of flora and fauna endemic to the area and is rich in uranium and magnetite. It’s the otherworldly claims, however, that are most intriguing.

Crooked Forest Mysterious Places

There’s a curious little forest in far-western Poland near the German border where trees grow at a 90-degree angle at their base — and no one knows why. This mystery is doubly intriguing because the Crooked Forest, as it’s known, is surrounded by a non-crooked forest of trees that grow straight up in the normal way.

Plain of Jars Mysterious Places

The 1930s discovery of thousands of megalithic stone jars dotting a remote landscape in Laos has long intrigued travelers and scientists alike.

Temple of Jupiter

The giant blocks of stone called the Trilithon that make up the base of this Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon remain a great mystery of the ancient world despite over 100 years of study by archaeologists.

Teotihuacan Mysterious Places

Any trip to Mexico City should include a visit to this fascinating Mesoamerican city just 30 miles northeast of the capital. The pyramids and other structures here date to 400 BCE; by the time the Aztecs found the city in the 1400s, it had already been abandoned for centuries. They named it “the place where the gods were created,” or Teotihuacan.

Taos Mysterious Places

Taos, New Mexico — which has been drawing artists to its ancient surroundings since the very end of the 19th century — is a magical place well worth a visit in its own right. The Taos Pueblo, a five-story series of adjoining homes, dates back a millenia and is one of the oldest continually inhabited communities in America.

San Luis Valley

The San Luis Valley desert in southern Colorado is so mysterious, it even has its own Google Map  highlighting various paranormal activity that's been reported there. A flying humanoid was spotted in the desert in 2009, there have been many bigfoot sightings over the years, and it's home to a ranch that “figured prominently in the [animal] mutilation waves of the ’70s.”

Yonaguni Monument

Deep down in Japan’s southern island chain, near Taiwan, is Yonaguni. Island waters here are known among divers for their abundance of hammerhead sharks, but in 1987 one diver discovered something much cooler that still baffles scientists to this day.

They are the most diverse insect species.

Beetles, belonging to the order Coleoptera, are incredibly diverse insects that comprise a quarter of all known living organisms! There are an estimated 400,000 identified species of beetles, with so many species yet to be discovered1. Among them, there are size variations that would make your jaw drop.

On one end of the scale, we have the almost invisible feather-winged beetles, no larger than 0.01 inches. The Fringed Ant Beetle (Nymphister Kronaueri) is the smallest known beetle and measures around 0.25 millimeters in length. On the other end, the Goliath Beetle, which can grow to 6.7 inches and weigh 1.8 ounces, is one of the longest and heaviest insects in the world.

Furthermore, beetles live in almost every habitat except the extreme polar regions. They live in the driest deserts and the wettest tropical rainforests!

Their horns are their most prominent feature

Our next rhinoceros fact talks about the animal’s name origin.

The term "rhinoceros" originates from two Greek words: "rhinos," meaning "nose," and "keras," meaning "horn." These animals have a prominent horn on their nose, which gives them their name. However, these horns aren't just decorative; they serve as the rhino's first line of defense. Black, white, and Sumatran rhinoceroses have two horns, with the larger one being called the anterior horn, and can grow up to 59 inches.

The posterior horn is shorter and can grow up to 22 inches. Besides self-defense, rhino horns are also for practical purposes such as digging for water and breaking branches2. Indian and Javan rhinos use their single horns in the same way.

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The Four Most Exotic Animals in the World

Earth is home to an immense variety of living beings and animals, many with qualities which make them very rare and special. If you go looking, you will come across all kinds of insects, fish, birds and mammals which will fascinate you, and sometimes even make you shiver with fear.

Enjoy the most delicious and nutritious tropical fruit at your home easily by growing Jackfruit plant

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Jackfruit erect evergreen perennial tree in Moraceae family. Leaves are dark green, alternate, glossy and somewhatleathery, fairly large and oval in shape. Flowers are short, stout and emerges from the trunk and large branches. The Jackfruit is a multiple fruit that is composed ofthe coherence of multiple flowe

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