The book offers an exciting account of the mysteries of the World Ocean, the plant and animal world, unique abilities of human beings, and many other enigmatic phenomena of nature.
Are dolphins intelligent? Do plants think? What or who hides in the Bermuda Triangle? In this unusual guide to mysterious phenomena of the past and present of our planet, collected are facts that scientists have not yet found a single clear explanation for, along with various versions of their interpretation.
Contents
INCREDIBLE ANIMALS
Guests from the Mesozoic era
The tentacled creature
The dolphin brain
Does “Bigfoot” exist?
Sensitive animals
Prehistoric fish
In search of a unicorn
Petrified toads
The mystery of the dwarf elephant
WHAT SURPRISES DO PLANTS PREPARE?
Means of protection
The “consciousness” of flora
How to slow plant growth
Magic cacti
The blue flower
The mystery of height
Carnivorous plants
Giant trees and long-livers
An unpleasant smell… of a flower
If you want to live—learn to adapt
RIDDLES THAT INSECTS ASK US
Why they fly
Familiar stranger
Bumblebee students
The mystery of the water bug
Walking on water
Bloodsuckers
Scorpion—ancient and modern
Ears… on legs—and not only
Living lanterns
Insects and smells
How insects sound
Riddles of vision
Bodybuilders
The mysterious inhabitants of ant nests
The spider—conqueror of the air
Riddles of wasps and bees
Flying toward the light
Travelers
Insects and magnetic fields
Why the fly doesn’t fall
Insects outpace chemists
Where pests come from
ON LAND, IN WATER, AND IN THE SKY
Vanishing islands
The mystery of dowsing
Quick sands
A mysterious clearing
The mystery of magnets
What the sands sing about
Sounds from the depths of the ocean
Geopathogenic zones
Riddles of water
About the Great Flood
Killer waves
Disaster—warm water
Strange lakes
The mystery of mountain ranges
The Bermuda Triangle
Mysteries of Atlantis
Visions and mirages
What falls from the sky
The influence of the Sun
MYSTERIES OF HUMAN NATURE
Biomagnetism
The influence of the Moon
Biorhythms
Intuition and foreknowledge
The mysteries of hypnosis
Riddles of genius