Not only canwalruses go up to 84 hours without sleeping, but they also find some bizarre ways to crash when they finally get around to taking a nap. Walruses can sleep at the bottom of an ocean floor or while bobbing on top of the water's surface. These animals have even been observ...
The appearance of flowers drew animals into the plant reproduction game as carriers for pollen – not for the first time, as a small number of gymnosperms are known to be insect pollinated – but at a level of control and specificity never before seen. Angiosperms have recruited ants, bees...
Perhaps it is true that the ways of the early zoos throughout the world were less than ideal given the comparison to the natural environment these creature's ancestors roamed. I believe there were far worse environments that the displaced offspring of the ancestors of previously wild animals ...
Interestingly, the researchers behind this study also looked at a couple of semi-marine animals, the sea lion and the sea turtle, which spend part of their time on land, and found that they have a sense of smell comparable to fully terrestrial animals, with no increased gene loss. The wid...
synthetic joy but would certainly not be sacked, and wouldn't let her children be sacked either, not even young Michael as he crept ostentatiously under Mary's carpet bag (the term "carpet-bagger" is a post-civil war term denoting the meddling of the victor in the ways of the vanquished...
“We can wake up the crone. She knows how to help animals, she can save him.” Una suggested to the wise Salamander Chief. “We can’t wake up a human!” screeched a cricket. The whole crowd erupted with commotion over the idea. “She can’t be serious. If we made a bunch of...
situation. Of course, opinions differ and some FPGA offer better ways to probe internal nodes but I found if the function can be done with half a dozen to a whole dozen simple PLDs, then using them for the initial debugging of such substitution projects is quicker and more painless than ...
s approach is to look across species boundaries to see what strategies have worked for animals along with looking at those used by human populations to survive. To this she also adds the “remember” part and tries to capture ways fiction, and in particular, science-fiction can point a way...
An infant boy was married off to his neighbors’ dog in eastern India by villagers, who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday. Feb. 8, 2009 36 Entertainment & Arts
A clever science fiction author could find all sorts of entertaining ways to use this. The obvious conclusion is that Luna did not randomly arrive at its current position. Somebody moved it there. ECLIPSE IS ALIEN BAIT So lets think about eclipses for a moment. Even if we haven't seen an...