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Have you ever noticed that your feet (or sometimes even a part of your feet) are sticking out of a blanket when you are fast asleep? Do you feel sleep better when your f…
Inside the spacecraft, the astronauts timed and locked themselves inside the cold compartment and fell into a deep slumber that would take them beyond hundreds of years…
Feathers are a trait of mammals, but have you ever wondered why humans always have their hair cut and other mammals?
To children? Who would have thought that the ancients had ideas
The young birds have ugly appearance, not eye-catching but after maturing, changing feathers, becoming extremely beautiful and seductive.
The Guam Island waterfowl - a species extinct in the wild for 40 years - have returned after decades of conservation efforts, originating from the last 21 individuals ke…
The monkey continued to live a long life, until it died in 1982 and was cremated.
Thousands of blue-tailed parrots - creatures that live only in the Americas, Africa and Australia live in the UK. How did they reach heaven? This is a question that has…
The liver is a nutritious dish and no one would think it would die after eating a few pieces of animal liver, but in Antarctica it's a completely different story.
Scientists found numerous animal mummies and many other valuable relics in an ancient Egyptian tomb dating back thousands of years.
Geckos drink water from their own eyes; Koalas eat their mother's faeces to build their intestinal microflora, an owl can sit cross-legged, and many other interesting sc…
The researchers were overjoyed to see 30 star clown toads in the remote jungle in the mountains.
US scientists on November 25 said they had measured the heart rate of an adult blue whale with a high-tech ECG recorder.
Mantis shrimp are capable of seeing ultraviolet, infrared and polarized light. This species is considered to be the most complex vision possessor of all animals known on…
Try to find out why prehistoric animals possessed a much larger size than today's animals.