| Photo Gallery: Great White Sharks The Latin name for great white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, literally means "ragged tooth," an understandable moniker. Photograph by Stephen Frink Collection 意译:大白鲨图库。大白鲨的拉丁名字,Carcharodon carcharias,照字面意思“粗糙的牙齿”,一个可以理解的绰号。 |
| Photo Gallery: Great White Sharks Full breaches like this attack are rare as they expend so much energy. But in South Africa waters full of baby seals, sharks attack from below with ferocious speed, propelling them out of the water with their catch. Photograph by Brandon Cole Marine Photography/Alamy 意译:大白鲨图库。全部突破像这样的攻击是稀罕的因为它们要花费很大的能量。但是在南非水域中有许多小海豹群,鲨鱼的攻击从下面开始用凶猛的速度,驱使它们跃出水面用来捕捉食 物。 |
| Photo of the Day: Sunrises and Sunsets The sun sets on the first-century ruins of Nemrud Dagh, Turkey, millennia after it set on the ancient kingdom itself. Built by King Antiochus I in southeastern Turkey, the kingdom is one of the best preserved but least known ruins of the Late Hellenistic period. Its monuments are a story in stone depicting the king, his family and ancestors, and their interaction with the gods. 意译:日出和日落:当天的图片。夕阳西下,对第一世纪的废墟Nemrud Dagh ,土耳其,几千年后,它攻击古代王国本土。 建成安太阿卡斯国王一世在土耳其东南部,那王国是其中保存最好,但至少已知遗址的晚期是希腊文化时期。 其纪念碑是一个故事,在石材描绘国王,他的家人和祖先,和他们的彼此互动与神。 Photo of the Day: Sunrises and Sunsets "Splendor of the past endures in an Egyptian pyramid. Camels have provided desert transport in parts of Africa and Asia since ancient times." 意译:日出和日落:当天的图片。“往日的辉煌忍受在埃及的金字塔。自从远古时代那骆驼队已经提供了沙漠运输在非洲和亚洲部分地区”。 Photo of the Day: Sunrises and Sunsets "The moon at sunrise lends an otherworldly feel to the freshwater lakes and pearly sands along the edge of lonely Shelburne Bay, on the remote northeast flank of the Cape York Peninsula." 意译:日出和日落:当天的图片。“那月亮在日出提供一个来世的感觉给淡水湖泊和珍珠似的砂沿边缘的孤独的Shelburne湾,在遥远的东北侧翼的约克角半岛的”。 Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering A waterfall fed by glacial runoff tumbles over sheer cliffs and into the turquoise water of Admiralty Inlet on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Such moving water is among the most powerful of nature's landscape-altering tools. Photograph by Paul Nicklen 意译:侵蚀和风化图库。瀑布的水源来自冰川径流滚动越过峻峭的悬崖峭壁和融入绿松石水的Admiralty渠道上的巴芬岛,努纳武特地区,加拿大。 这种移动水是其中最强大的大自然的景观――改变工具。 |
| Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering Sandbars swirl beneath Oregon Inlet in Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Waves driven by ocean winds can cause the sandbars here to shift and change literally by the hour, making conditions hazardous for boats. Photograph by David Alan Harvey 意译:侵蚀和风化图库。沙洲涡旋流在俄勒冈州进出渠道下方在哈特拉斯角国家海滨于北卡罗莱纳州的外部的堤。 波浪驱动的海洋风可以导致沙洲这里转移的速度并从字面上改变按小时,制造有害的条件对船。 |
| Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering Persistent winds in the mountains of Nevada's Great Basin National Park eroded the trunk of this old pine tree into what look like a pair of sideways spectacles. The Great Basin hosts drastically varied climates, from its cold, snowy mountains to its dry, hot desert valley. Photograph by Richard Olsenius 意译:侵蚀和风化图库。持续的风在山上的内华达州的大盆地国家公园削弱了树干的老松树怎么看起来就像是一对侧身眼镜。 大盆地主人激烈多样的气候,从寒冷,多雪山到它干燥,炎热的沙漠谷地。 Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering Winds sweeping through the Grand Canyon have eroded this sandstone outcrop into an anvil shape. Wind shapes these fantastical forms by eroding less dense rock, like sandstone, faster than surrounding rock. Photograph by Melissa Farlow 意译:侵蚀和风化图库。大风席卷大峡谷,已经侵蚀了这个砂岩露出地面成为一个铁砧形状。 风形状这些空想的形式不仅侵蚀着密度较低的岩石,像砂岩,速度更快于周围的岩石。
Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering A thunderstorm does its part to shape Utah's Mussentuchit Badlands. Although this area gets only scant rainfall, over centuries, precipitation and wind have taken turns creating this rugged land's hundreds of gullies, ravines, and washes. Photograph by Michael Collier 意译:侵蚀和风化照片。一场雷暴,它的一部分形成犹他州的mussentuchit 荒地。虽然这一地域很少降雨,几个世纪以来,降雨和风力都采取轮流创造这个高低不平的土地的数以百计的冲沟,沟壑和洼地。
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