The SCARIEST FUNGUS in the WORLD!

Parasites, our biggest and scariests enemies.Flies,worms,muggets...
All of them parasite on others but the best on their job are fungi.
They can creep up on their hosts as tiny spores and control their impulses.
But which is the scariest and most horrifying one?

Say hello to the bug controling,brain popping fungus named corticeps.
This fungus gets into a insects nervous system and makes it climb to a place were air currets take the spores to other insects, then the fungus pops out of the insect's serfous and frees his spores.

follow the FROG

UPDATE:no more PHOTOS, more DRAWINGS

I decided that nature´s science should not use photographs any more, so I started using drawings to make my own photos, and now I will start to change the previous blogs and put my drawings inestead of photos so check them out.
And be aware that in halloween I will show videos of the scariest creatures of the natural world, remember that all the videos in this blog are highly recomended to nature lovers and science fans.

HOW a SEWAGE SYSTEM SAVED a RIVER FROM BECOMING A DEAD ZONE

Imagine a city that contaminated his main river to the point of biological extinction.Well, you don´t have to imagine it,beacuse that was London and the river Tames in 1858 in an event called "THE GREAT STINK":Colera outbreaks popped all over England,poop piles up to 6 feet deep.Finally the goverment decided to put a sewage system that cleaned the river from waste,it took 20 years to complete,a hundred years later the Tames was declared as dead, in 1957 the natural history museum declared the Tames as biologically dead.

But better sewage systems appeared and now the Tames supports wildlife in its waters.

THE END

  

If you want to know more watch this video by Vsauce2 about our toilets and water theatments. 

The ROCK DILEMA

Have you ever wondered what is the answer to the big question...What is life?

So to answer it I invented a simple dilema.
Imagine you have a rock, What should you do to consider that it is alive or that it is life?
It depends.What is life?In every organisim there are proteins that make it function:feed,get energy,produce more of itself, recicle, copy genetic material...
But proteins aren't alive by themselves, is the reactions that they make that creates proceses to sustain the being.

At some point creatures die, they reproduce to maintain, not themselves,but their genes, the información to create all proteins, its so important in fact that living things can evolve into dead things as long as its benefitial to its DNA.But DNA is a protein, its not alive by itself.

Now lets apply the rock dilema:If you add reactions that create chemical proceses un the same way as in living things, Is the rock alive?Or if you add information to arrange and create a copy of itself and a way to decode it, Is it alive?

GAME of THRONES SCIENCE

If you love science and Game of Thrones you should see this video of It's okay to be smart.
But before you do.

If you like more blogs of this type look at the blog about new species of ants named by dragons or watch this video about a village for Game of Thrones fans.

MAN vs EARTH rap

This scientific rap about how we are destroing the Earth will make you rethink what we do.

the BIKE CRASHING GIANT GOLIATH BEETLE

Beetles are the most common type of insect out there, they have lots of shapes and sizes, but just one has the power to bump into bicicles and bringing them down.The goliath beetle is a massive african beetle that's so heavy that its hard for him to fly, so it needs lots of power to lift itself, wich makes him move faster thoward than up, making him a bullet at low latitude, so its easy for him to bump in the faces of bikers and crash into the windows of cars.