Once caught by a predator, this jellyfish’s only hope for survival is to use its lights to attract the attention of a larger predator to attack its attacker and give it a chance to escape. Touch me and I’ll slime you When attacked, this pelagic sea cucumber flashes a warning sign: ...
and these are big, indefinite, but we still have a sense that these are quite small because of the morphemes -ty and –teen. Then above that you have the numerals like zillion and jillion and squillion, and those are clearly bigger tha...
And a large nervous system is a sign of intelligence. He goes on to talk a bit more about how we might be able to relate to the octopus. He talks about theproteannature of its body.Proteanis an adjective which means 'adaptable...
When they are ready to release eggs, female fish are usually visibly wider than male fish. Females will release hundreds or thousands of eggs depending on species. The eggs fall to the bottom of the tank or land in clusters. Males then swim over the eggs, releasing sperm to fertilize the ...
those marvellous videos of people eatingstaggeringly hot peppers(or juststraight capsaicin), or volunteering to betased, or shooting each otherwith fireworks, or engaging in thevariousotherthingsthat only other drunk 20-year-olds used to get to watch...there are evenvoluntaryIrukandjijellyfishstings...
tall. He was white in color just like the little ones.This tall one looked like a mature adult Gray Alien. This one had anelongated head, large dark black eyes. He was telling them, 'It's time to go. We can't stay much longer'.The Reptilian was stubborn and coming out of the ...
How to do a jellyfish Also known as the Atomic Bomb and the Force Field, there are countless variations on this crowd-pleasing trick. The basic idea is to push a small cloud through the center of a larger one so they combine to resemble a jellyfish or mushroom cloud. This is difficult...
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Kombucha is a delicious fermented drink that’s perfect for a warm summer day. At its heart is a live bacterial-fungal culture called aSCOBY(Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeasts), sometimes referred to as a “mother.” The mother looks like a circular, flat jellyfish and is made of ...
HisNat Geoassignments have taken him to all sorts offar-flungplaces—but heembarked onhis first natural history adventures much closer to home, behind a shopping mall in suburban Atlanta. VARMA: I grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta. And what that meant is that I had a lot of space to ...