Animal world
Top 6 animals that know how to use tools that no one expected
You may have heard of chimpanzees and crows using assistive devices, but what about alligators?
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Animal world
Decipher the creature is said to be 'lucky', the whole body is covered with moss green hair
Recently, on social networks spread a video of a creature covered with a layer of moss green 'fur' swimming gracefully in the water.
Biology
Discovered the largest bacteria ever
Scientists have discovered an extremely large bacterium that lurks in the middle of the Grande-Terre mangrove forest in the Caribbean and can be seen with the naked eye…
Animal world
Mysterious snake-like creature, with a forked tail like the tail of a 'mermaid': The name surprised everyone!
Many people were amazed at the creature with such a forked tail. What creature is this?
Animal world
Ticks that live for 8 years don't need to be eaten in the laboratory
The Argas brumpti tick lives a long time without eating, and the female can even store sperm and reproduce 4 years after the male dies.
Animal world
Sparrows specialize in foraging underwater with super skills of 'diving'
The wings of this bird have a unique mechanism that allows them to both fly in the air, but can also be used as flippers underwater, allowing them to dive deep with incr…
Biology
Don't play with fire ants, especially in Africa, they can 'turn' your body into Sashimi!
Imagine, your body is attacked by a swarm of African fire ants, what will your body be like?
Biology
Discover a species of desert bacteria with a unique photosynthetic ability
Scientists have discovered a species of bacteria that can 'eat' sunlight and 'breathe' oxygen.
Biology
Discovered the world's first hermaphroditic green bean stick beetle
The stick beetle molts to reveal a hermaphroditic body with two different colored halves, surprising owners and biologists.
Animal world
Stunned by parrot's ability to play golf
An interesting video shows a Goffin cockatoo learning how to master a wooden stick to push a marble into a hole.
Archeology
'Crocodile hybrid' 240 million years old: Each tooth is a knife
One of the most terrifying beasts of its time, recently identified from fossils unearthed in Tanzania, is an archosaur, a group of crocodile-like reptiles of the Triassi…
Animal world
Plankton - The planet's largest CO2 storage 'store'
Not the land or the trees, the sea is the most effective permanent storage of CO2.
Oceanography
Strangely small creatures, but longer than blue whales
The bootlace worm is one of the longest animals on Earth. Once, they were found on the beach with a length of up to 55 meters.
Alien
Creatures living in boiling water, full of poison: Clues to alien life
Creatures inhabiting a boiling lake full of acid and toxic metals near the Poás volcano in Costa Rica could be the guide to future alien life-hunting missions.
Animal world
Quiz: Which animal has the longest arm?
When we think of long-armed animals, we might think of apes, but in fact there is another species that has beaten them.