A courting pair of Brazilian Jewels. This tiny (~2”), docile, and rare type of tarantula lives beneath camouflaged silken trapdoors on trees and is one of the most colorful of all 50,000+ known spider species.
Haliç Shipyard (Tersane-i Amire) in Istanbul, Turkey, founded by the Ottomans in 1455, is often cited as the oldest operating shipyard in the world.
