Animal world
What factors help crocodiles survive an extinction event?
Crocodiles have been around for nearly 100 million years, thanks to their special biological characteristics and skills that help them adapt to climate change.
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Oceanography
Male seahorses like mates
Male seahorses have specific requirements when choosing their partners: increasing chances of successful reproduction. By carefully selecting and often favoring large fe…
Animal world
It is not always that the animal is big
Body size has long been noted to play an important role in shaping species interactions.
Environment
The secret of sheep breeds is getting smaller and smaller
The new study shows that warmer winters are making Scotland's wild Soay sheep increasingly smaller, despite the natural evolutionary benefits that should have helped the…
Medicine - Health
Explaining the phenomenon of human brain developing large size
The growing human brain is mainly reacting to stresses in the living environment, forcing people to think of creative solutions to get food and shelter.
Medicine - Health
Don't rush your own body, big muscles don't mean strong muscles
Images of muscular bodybuilders are always a source of motivation for many people to come to the gym every day.
Medicine - Health
Brain size have decided to intelligence?
Evolution is largely not controlled by the brain. The most common criterion for assessing animal intelligence, the relationship between brain size and body size, may not…