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The National Geografic portal introduced the top ten amazing and important discoveries of the outgoing 2012. Among them – megacrocodile, an unprecedented worm, sugar in space, Divine particle known as the Higgs boson, a new planet in the Solar system, strange Mayan murals, mysterious temple of the tribe sun and stuff. 1st place. The discovery of “dramatic” Temple of the ancient Mayan Indians, lost in the jungle of Guatemala. 2a place. Ancient frescoes of the Mayan tribe. Contrary to rumors that Indians predicted the end of the world in December 2012, on the walls depicted calculations suggesting that life on Earth will last another thousand years. 3rd place. Legless amphibians resembling worms that represent a completely new family amphibians. 4th place. A new species of monkey, one of eight new mammals found during an expedition to North Peru. Researchers christened the developed places a paradise of biological diversity. 5th place. Astronomers counted stars in the system HD 1018 0, which is located in the constellation Hydra at a distance of 127 light years from our planet, nine planets. 6th place. The Lost World of Antarctica. Strange Deep Sea Creatures found near mineral-rich, hot hydrothermal sources in the Antarctic. 7th place. Physicists working with The Large Hadron Collider, with 99 percent confidence stated about the discovery of the Higgs boson, known as the Divine particle. 8a place. Astronomers believe that on the outskirts of the solar system, beyond outside the orbit of Neptune, there is an unknown dwarf science planet. 9th place. Scientists have found that around a star, located about 400 light years from Earth, floating in space simple sugar molecules. More precisely, these are organic molecules carbohydrates consisting of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. 10a place. In the Philippines discovered a giant crocodile Lolong. His length reaches 6.17 meters. The reptile was immediately entered into the Book. Guinness World Records.
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