How Big Is The Ocean?

While the Earth's oceans are known as five separate entities, there is really only one ocean. So, how big is it? As of 2013, it takes up 71% of the Earth, houses 99% of the biosphere, and contains some of Earth's grandest geological features.

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Beautiful Strange And Rare Cloud Formations

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Animal Camouflage

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7 Unique Forests Of The World

A forest is an area with a high density of trees. Forests cover approximately 9.4 percent of the Earth's surface (or 30 percent of total land area), though they once covered much more (about 50 percent of total land area). In addition to the large number of forests that are well-known tourist destinations in the world, there are also small and very unusual forests which are less well known to the general public.

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Birds of Paradise

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Immersion

The sheep had drowned while trying to cross a small canal in the meadow-swamp ‘Tøndermasken’ in southern Jylland in Denmark. Birds had eaten every part above the surface and everything under was left totally untouched. from the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012.

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Caterpillar Caravan

When caterpillars come out to feed they form a procession, one following the other, head to tail in a creepy crawly line.

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Sounds Of Nature

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Solar Eruption

This fabulous NASA photo shows a solar filament erupting from our Sun last month. The explosion shot electrons and ions into the Solar System, some of which arrived at Earth three days later and impacted Earth’s magnetosphere, causing visible aurorae. That little black dot (which has been added) equates to the size of Earth.

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Rocky Mountaineer Train Experience

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The Amazing Monkey Orchid

Nature doesn't need an audience. These wonderful orchids come from the south-eastern Ecuadorian and Peruvian cloud forests from elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters and as such not many people throughout history got to see them. However, thanks to intrepid collectors we do get to see this wonderful Monkey Orchid. Someone didn't need much imagination to name it though, let's face it.

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A Male Seahorse Gives Birth

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San Francisco Bay Bridge Lightning Strike

An incredible eight bolts struck the Bay Bridge in San Francisco last night which was captured in this incredible shot by photographer Phil McGrew, who took the photo through the rain-soaked window of his apartment. Mr McGrew, 49, was shocked at the striking image which shows the split-second moment of electric forks hitting the span of the bridge.

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When zoo lions act like they're in the wild

A heron picks the worst way it could find to land: the lion den at the Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam. Things go as expected.

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Crab Vs. Boobies

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Blue Marble 2012

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Ocean Cave

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Life of flowers

Life of flowers (Жизнь цветов) from VOROBYOFF PRODUCTION on Vimeo.

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Mark Watson takes on the Morning Glory Cloud

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Race Against Tide

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