www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs April 29, 2019

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs April 29, 2019 (29/04/2019)

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Topic: Latest Diary of Events

Cyclone Fani

Why in News? Cyclone Fani is likely to turn into a ‘severe cyclonic storm’.

It was formed at low pressure region in south east of Sumatra (Indonesian island), which further intensified into a depression.

Terminology:

Cyclones are given many names in different regions of the world – They are known as typhoons in the China Sea and Pacific Ocean; hurricanes in the West Indian islands in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean; tornados in the Guinea lands of West Africa and southern USA.; willy-willies in north-western Australia and tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean.

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Topic: Latest Diary of Events

95 Million year old crab species

Alberta University palaeontologists have discovered 95 million-year-old coin-sized ‘cartoon eyed’ crab species callead Callichimaeraperplexa.

It is believed that is the crab is from mid-cretaceous period & it must have hailed from what is now Colombia, Northern Africa & Wyoming.

It is a small pocket-size crab had a tiny lobster-esque shell; legs flattened like oars & huge, Pound Puppies’ eyes that projected from its head.