Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave, also known as ATM Cave, or the Midnight Terror Cave, is buried deep within the jungles of Belize, Central America, and is one of the most… Keep reading 15 Ingenious Canadian Inventions That Made the World a Better Place Explore 15 ingenious Canadian inventions ...
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Long ago, the avocado was enjoyed by many in Central and South America. They called itahuacate, which means “testicle” inAztec. If you’ve never thought of it before, you now realize that the shape of the avocado gave rise to the Aztec name. As a result, the avocado was a legendar...
Mere decades before the reforms, Greece had been deflated and Carthage had been utterly leveled — half its population slaughtered, the other half sold into slavery — and turned into the capital of Rome's north-central African province (Africa is where Rome's food was produced, and Roman Car...
Unsurprisingly, romantic kissing is common in most cultures in regions like North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. But if you venture to Central and South America or sub-Saharan Africa, it's unlikely that you'll see anyone getting their makeout on. W...
Well, Wookiees never actually appeared in any earlier films, but George Lucas came up with the idea of the animal for his film THX 1138 and apparently liked the sound of the word “Wookiee” so much he decided to make one into a central character in Star Wars. 11Stormtroopers are All ...
Looking like a bizarre cross between a pig, a donkey and a rhinoceros, this cow-sized mammal is an endangered species endemic to Central andSouth America. Known as the Mountain Cow inBelize, it is celebrated as the national animal. Baird’s tapir is most active at night but are frequently...
Central America/Caribbean -0.21 0.50 23 Central Asia -0.02 0.88 10 South America -0.07 0.42 12 Eastern Europe -0.51 0.59 30 “Western” Nations -1.45 0.52 25 Note. Because scores are standardized, the global mean is zero and the global standard deviation is 1.0 (with rounding error). The ...
The anuran pelvis consists of a cylindrical, rod-like central unit (the urostyle) surrounded by two super-long, shaft-like ilia. Reduced, plate-like (and typically unossified) pubic bones are present beneath the ilia and paired, cartilaginous prepubic or epipubic bones are sometimes present to...
There are two other weird facts about the skin that are very interesting, though the ideas are used sparingly through the comics and movies. The first is that the skin can withstand both low and high temperatures. Remember when he was frozen in deep ice by Ice Man? When he got out, the...