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Guinness World Records is collection of world
records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
The article brings some of the most amazing and natural world records
such as highest Plateau of the world, wold smallest lizard and World
poisonous fish...
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World's Highest Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau is a vast, elevated plateau in Central Asia or East
Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province
in western China, as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. It
stretches approximately 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) north to south and
2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) east to west. With an average elevation
exceeding 4,500 metres (14,800 ft), the Tibetan Plateau is sometimes
called "the Roof of the World" and is the world's highest and largest
plateau, with an area of 2.5 million km2 (0.97 million sq. mi., or about
four times the size of France).
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Puya Raimondii - Blooming Flower After Long Time
Puya Raimondii is an ancient, very rare and the largest bromeliad in the
world; it is an endemic species of the altoandina zone of Peru. In some
preserved areas of Peru and Bolivia you can see its gigantic
inflorescence reaching up to 10 m height and 2.5 m diameter. Due to its
size the Puya Raimondii is considered to be the largest inflorescence in
the world. It has about ten thousand flowers and six million seeds in
each plant (all honour to botanists who had enough patience to count all
of them!). To grow such a magnificent inflorescence Puya saves its
strength all its life, which is quite long. On average the “maturity” of
the Puya starts after 50 years. However, there are species that start
blooming after 150 years. The Puya Raimondii are pollinated by bats and
large insects.
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Longest Beak Bird
The longest bill (beak) is that of the Australian pelican (Pelecanus
conspicillatus) is 34–47 cm (13–18½ in) long. The longest beak in
relation to overall body length is that of the sword-billed hummingbird
(Ensifera ensifera) of the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. The beak
measures 10.2 cm (4 in) making it longer than the birds actual body if
the tail is excluded.
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Antheraea polyphemus - Feed Heavily Moth
The Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus) is a North American member of
the family Saturniidae, the giant silk moths. It is a tan colored moth,
with an average wingspan of 15 cm (6 inches). The most notable feature
of the moth is its large, purplish eyespots on its two hindwings. The
eye spots are where it gets its name – from the Greek myth of the
Cyclops Polyphemus. The caterpillar of the Polyphemus Moth can eat
86,000 times its weight at emergence in a little less than two months.
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World's Smallest Lizard: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long
So small it can curl up on a dime or stretch out on a quarter, a typical
adult of the species, whose scientific name is Sphaerodactylus ariasae
is only about 16 millimeters long, or about three quarters of an inch,
from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail. It shares the title
of "smallest" with another lizard species named Sphaerodactylus
parthenopion, discovered in 1965 in the British Virgin Islands.
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