Size Compared to Similar Animals Opossums are more modestly sized than they perhaps appear. While it is not unusual for house cats to top 20 pounds, a possum that large would probably be a world record possum. To gain an idea of how big possums get in the U.S., the Missouri Departmen...
Reich's plan is to find ancient DNA from every culture known to archaeology in the world. Ultimately, he hopes to build a genetic atlas of humanity over the past 50…
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When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, he laid off thousands of employees, stopped paying rent and auctioned off coffee makers and office chairs in hopes of a big turnaround
You'll also see a big celebration of kids on the fringe, those outsiders who were outsiders for a good reason -- intelligent, complex characters struggling to deal with the horrors of high school. In "Freaks and Geeks," the character of Neil Schweiber (Samm Levine) delivers a line about...
Because sloths move so slowly, people want to carry them so they can get them to their destination sooner rather than letting them take their sweet time on the ground. Did you know that sloths are a helpless and vulnerable species? That is why we must save them before they become extinct...
How big is the Amazon rainforest compared to the U.K.? How many trees per acre are in the Amazon rainforest? How many animal species are in the Amazon rainforest? How many trees get cut down in the Amazon rainforest? What is the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest?
“We know that losing big animals is ecologically problematic at these massive scales, but we don’t know the exact impacts of losing them. How long have we got to sort out those issues, and what could be done about them? “This is really a call to get people thinking about these prob...
But there’s something much more fundamental that had to be conveyed: How exactly do homo sapiens move? “For all they knew, we were things that could move very slowly, with very little strength,” mused Frank Drake, “like sloths or worms.” ...
Plans included locks built by Gustave Eiffel, famed builder of the Eiffel Tower. Despite big dreams and massive effort, French attempts ultimately fell apart because of the deaths of over 22,000 people from disease and construction accidents, financial woes and internal corruption. T...