Other islands that don’t have snakes includeNew Zealand, Hawaii, Greenland,Iceland, and Antarctica. Still, the absence of snakes does seem somewhat miraculous, given the global pet trade and the serpents’ potential to become invasive....
No, this isn't a joke.Someone actually earns a living watching paint dry.A man in the UK currently has the job and he spends his days painting sheets of cardboard to test how long new paint mixes take to dry and watching for changes in color and texture.3.Train Pusher:If you think...
According to an article onKFVS 12, Snake Road in Illinois has been shut down early due to warmer-than-average weather in the Southern part of the Land of Lincoln. The road which closes at parts of the year for snakes to migrate without being struck by vehicles usually doesn't close unti...
As adaptable as they are, it’s no wonder that these birds are found all over the world except Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and Madagascar. They are most abundant in South America and southeast Asia and tend to be sedentary although some species like the North American sa...
It not only ushered in a wave of new applications, but it is probably inhibiting, rather than encouraging, commercial innovation, which had never received, or needed, legal protection in the past. Europe has not, so far, made the same blunder, but the European Parliament is considering the ...
The man behind the epic "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Peter Jackson is a New Zealand filmmaker who has won three Oscars. In addition to "The Lord of the Rings," he wrote, directed, and produced "The Hobbit" trilogy, and has helmed other films such as "King Kong," "Heavenly Creatures...
the indigenous Maori language, meaning "god of ugly things." It is endemic to New Zealand. Because the nation was void of mammals for an extended period, the wētā could evolve to a rodentlike size, though the introduction of actual rodents to the islandhas decimated much of its population...
What animal has a third eye? When it comes to the pineal eye, for example, the animal with the most pronounced “third eye” is actuallythe tuatara, an ancient lizard endemic to New Zealand. Do humans have a cloaca? Being placental animals,humans only have an embryonic cloaca, which is ...
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned...
In the blogger’s adopted home of New Zealand,just two weeks ago this op-ed came out— written by a Kiwi-Chinese who, despite being born and raised in New Zealand, no longer feels welcome in her own country:“I am viewed daily as just another foreigner who is here to take from local...