Ten Most Strangely Shaped Lakes

Check Out These Ten Most Strangely Shaped Lakes : Nature tells you a story, of solace and existence. Similarities can be found in the things surrounding us but what is most astonishing is when water bodies cry for attention; through their various intriguing shapes and outlines, we look but we do not see.

Schulensmeer Lake – Belgium

Giant water gun: Nature and man worked together to unintentionally make a weapon out of Belgium’s 2.5 km long Schulensmeer. A highway was constructed nearby in 1970’s and the parcels of land brought for it turned the lake into a pistol shape. It is not as deadly as it seems, however in case of flooding it causes the Demer River to overflow. Otherwise, sailing, surfing and water sports are the powder in the gun.

The Lake that leads the Latin Alphabet

To be honest there are simply loads of heart-shaped lakes out there everywhere from Ohio to Korea so we just didn’t have room for all of them here. Shot from a balloon, this next lake or perhaps more accurately pond looks like the letter ‘A’ to us. Anyone know of other lakes that spell something out to them? We’d be interested to hear.

Friday's Lake

The reservoir of the Kiev Hydroelectric Power Plant.

Catherine's garden in Moscow is of the same form (and content)

The Lake designed by Pisces

This frozen-over, fish-shaped wonder was captured on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain peak in North America at around 6,194 metres. Mount McKinley actually has a larger rise than Mount Everest, as its base sits at a much lower elevation of 610 m, and is also bulkier than its Himalayan rival. With such imposing facts, it’s no wonder this obscurely fishy lake is less well-known..

The Lake in the image of Man

This next shape is clearly a product of deliberate human intervention in the natural landscape, a figure that stands some 140 metres tall in a lake located near Iacanga in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. However, aside from its location and vital statistics, information about this strange piece of land art is scarce. Anyone know anything we don’t? If so, pray do tell.

The Lake of Lady Luck

Canada’s aptly-named Horseshoe Lake might bring luck for some, but geographically oxbow lakes like this are not uncommon. These sweeping U-shaped bodies of water are formed when a wide meander from a river’s main stem is cut off, creating the characteristically curved lake. This fine-looking example is located along the long the Red River, near Morris in southern Manitoba.

The River that doubles your luck

So how do oxbow lakes arise? Well many of them start out a lot like this. Yes, we know, it isn’t a lake, but it could be one in the making. This is Arizona’s Horseshoe Bend, a magnificent meander of the Colorado River situated slightly downstream from Lake Powell within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. From the steep cliff above, some 305 metres higher up, it makes a breathtaking sight.

Manicouagan Lake – Canada

Engaging ring: One of the seven wonders of Canada, a ring-shaped hydroelectric reservoir lake occupies the centre of Quebec’s Manicouagan Crater. This shuttle view shows the prominent 70 kilometers diameter, ice-covered annular lake that fills a ring where impact-brecciated rock has been eroded by glaciation.

The Lake that says ‘How do you do?’

The previous lake may have been man-shaped by design, but this next one looks more natural; natural but not au naturel – see he’s wearing a hat and cane as he walks across the countryside. We’re not sure where this is, but we’ve featured it on EG before and one commenter reckoned it could be Blythefield Reservoir in Staffordshire, England; another said it must be Mr. Peanut of Planters fame.

Heart shaped lake, possibly in Korea

The Lake Eros, India

If you fancy giving a lake photo as a valentine gift, the heart shaped Lake Eros is the water body for you. The Chembra Peak in India overlooks what is the symbol of love throughout the world, at 1,398 metres above sea level. The water not only warms the eyes but is also at a fairly tolerable temperature with a surface area of 1,827 square meters.

Not really a lake but there is some water

Arabian sheik billionaire decided to glorify himself in the world and outside it, by writing his name on the sand of the island belonging to him
with kilometer letters. HAMAD inscription is dug in the sand of the island belonging to him with al-Futaisi letters. The whole inscription is about 4 km at length.

11 Blind Animals That are Hardly Senseless

11 Blind Animals That are Hardly Senseless

Kiwa Hirsuta Crab
The blind lobster, along with this furry Kiwa Hirsuta crab were discovered during a decade-long survey of the deep ocean.

The crab lives on and near volcanic vents and is thought to feed on bacteria. The long hairs are not used to detect prey, but instead filter poisonous chemicals emitted by the vents from the water.

Whether they burrow through the soil, swim in caves, or crawl along the deep ocean, incredible blind animals manage to develop unique means to survive in these unusual environments; even without the use of their eyes.

Star-Nosed Mole
Though the star-nosed mole is functionally blind, it possesses an incredible sense of smell that helps it locate prey. By exhaling and inhaling air bubbles, this mole can even smell underwater.

The distinctive tentacles radiating off the mole's nose are covered in more than 25,000 tiny touch receptors known as "Eimer's organs." Though these organs are believed to be used to detect the electrical activity of nearby prey, no empirical evidence has been found to support this idea.

Whether by virtue of the Eimer's organs or the moles remarkable sense of smell, the star-nosed mole is an incredible predator, capable of identifying and consuming prey in as little as 120 milliseconds.

Naked Mole Rat
In the comic Daredevil, mild-mannered Mathew Murdock is blinded when a chemical spills onto his face from a passing truck. With his vision impaired, the rest of his senses become heightened.

Plot devices aside, nature is full of animals that, lacking highly a highly-developed sense of sight, are able to accomplish incredible things with their other senses.

The unusual naked mole rat is certainly one of them. From their small lungs and low metabalisms—which help them survive in oxygen-deprived tunnels—to their unique colony social structure—which has more in common with ants and bees than other mammals—naked mole rats are highly adapted to their life underground.

Cave Tetra

Other common troglobites include fish, like these cave tetra. Native to dark subterranean pools in Mexico, this fish is distinct from surface-dwelling varieties and is thought to have developed completely underground.

Like many troglobites, the cave tetra has undeveloped eyes

Madagascar Blind Snake 
On every continent save Antarctica, blind snakes burrow beneath the surface of the soil. This ancient and little-understood animal appears infrequently in fossil record, making it difficult for researchers to map their development.

The limited evidence that has been found, however, shows that these Madagascar blind snakes were present when the island split from India and Africa, more than 150 million years ago.

Olm
The Olm, or Proteus anguinus, was the first discovered troglobite. Appearing in written accounts as early as 1689, the olm was originally likened to a "baby dragon."

Today, the olm is known to be a unique amphibian which—though blind—has a highly tuned ability to sense the quantity and quality of nearby prey. This is accomplished through a heightened sense of smell and hearing.

Texas Blind Salamander
Texas blind salamander, lives in a cave can reach an adult length of about 13 centimeters. His eyes were small and hidden under the skin. Salamanders spend their entire lives in darkness.

Leptodirus Beetle
Most of the world's blind animals are troglobites—or cave dwellers. The rare Leptodirus hochenwartii beetle is a true troglobite, specifically adapted to life underground and unable to survive in the outside world

First described in 1832, the beetle is the first officially identified cave animal.

Brazilian Blind Characid
Even stranger—and more rare—than the cave tetra is this strange fish native to only a few pools in the caves of Brazil. The Brazilian blind characid was actually thought to be extinct until researchers rediscovered small groups in 2010.

Both the cave tetra and the Brazilian blind characid make up for what they lack—eyes—by using sound waves to navigate and find food.

Blind Lobster
While most blind animals live beneath the surface of the soil or in caves, there is another area in which vision is not the most useful sense: The deep ocean.

Three-hundred meters beneath the surface of the ocean, this blind lobster roams the seafloor, catching prey with its long claws, called chelipeds.

Blind Spider
Than 850 new species found during surveys in the Australian underground habitats, spiders are blind, was "totally unexpected things in unexpected places," team member Steve Cooper, from the South Australian Museum, said in October 2009.
For example, a scientist found an arachnid in western Australia, dry pastureland that has been estimated to exist only in the rainforest - the first time in a group of species ever found in Australia, Cooper said.

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