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First described in 1860, the fungus is found in subtropical Asia, including India, Japan, Taiwan, Polynesia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, in Australia, and Brazil. Fruit bodies (mushrooms) have pale brownish-grey sticky caps up to 30 mm (1.2 in) in diameter atop stems 6–30 mm (0.2–1.2 in) long and up to a millimeter thick.
The largest of the earwigs is the Saint Helena earwig (Labidura herculeana), which is up to 8.4 cm (3.3 in) in length. There are no recent records of this species and it is generally considered extinct. [12] The largest certainly living species is the Australian giant earwig (Titanolabis colossea), which is about 5 cm (2.0 in) long. [7]
Physcia caesia, known colloquially as blue-gray rosette lichen and powder-back lichen, is a species of foliose lichenized fungus. First described by Georg Franz Hoffmann in 1784, it is common across much of Europe, North America and New Zealand, and more patchily distributed in South America, Asia, Australia and Antarctica.
The Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, [2] weighing 3,106 carats (621.20 g), discovered at the Premier No.2 mine in Cullinan, South Africa, on 26 January 1905. It was named after Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the mine. In April 1905, it was put on sale in London, but despite considerable interest, it was still ...
Mount Thor, with an elevation of 1,675 m (5,495 ft), is said to have the greatest purely vertical drop (a sheer cliff face) of any mountain on Earth, at 1,250 m (4,100 ft). [ 24 ] The two largest lakes on the island lie in the south-central part of the island: Nettilling Lake (5,542 km 2 ; 2,140 sq mi) and Amadjuak Lake (3,115 km 2 ; 1,203 sq ...
Certain fungal pathogens such as Aspergillus nomius and Metarhizium anisopliae are, however, major threats to a termite colony as they are not host-specific and may infect large portions of the colony; [163] [164] transmission usually occurs via direct physical contact. [165] M. anisopliae is known to weaken the termite immune system.
New Earth is a composite of the Pre-Crisis Earth-One, the Pre-Crisis Earth-Two, the Pre-Crisis Earth-Four, the Pre-Crisis Earth-X, the Pre-Crisis Earth-S and the Dakotaverse Merged with Vertigo Earth and Earth-50 in the wake of the Flashpoint event and had its history rewritten as a result, creating The New 52 [ 41 ]
The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. [7] This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. [8] It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981.