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A 27kg Empurau caught from the Katibas River was sold for more than 76 million VND. Although it costs more than gold, this fish is still sought after by many tycoons.
By conventional reckoning, the giraffe is the tallest animal still living on Earth.
300,000 rats suddenly jumped off a cliff to commit mass suicide. This was a rare event that happened in 1994. So, what was the cause?
Interestingly, a candle flame is teardrop shaped on Earth, but spherical in space.
The meteor shower from objects related to the origin of life on Earth will peak on the night of December 13 and early morning of December 14.
For many years, the field of virtual reality (VR) technology development has struggled to find a way to bring all five human senses into a virtual environment.
Researchers are redefining the criteria for determining whether a cell is alive or dead.
Chinese scientists have launched a hypersonic aircraft with a particularly massive fuselage, reaching speeds fast enough to travel between Beijing and New York in two ho…
Ingenuity, NASA's Mars research helicopter, crashed on January 18, 2024 due to a problem with its guidance system.
Professor John Woinarski said that despite their extremely important role in the environment, invertebrates have not received the same conservation attention as other sp…
The black and white markings of Commerson's dolphins may be a form of camouflage that enhances their ability to hunt prey.
Razorfish possess a unique swimming style that allows them to both evade predators and ambush hiding prey.
Recently, thanks to advanced scanning technology, American scientists have clarified many mysteries surrounding the mummy of Meresamun - an ancient Egyptian priestess wh…
10,000-year-old pottery fragments from the Shangshan culture on the banks of the Yangtze have left traces of an ancient wine.
Nemesis is a hypothetical red dwarf star. The existence of this star has been proposed to explain a cyclical pattern in the rate of biological extinctions over geologic…