Animal world
When animals compete in height: Can humans make it into the top 10?
By conventional reckoning, the giraffe is the tallest animal still living on Earth.
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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.
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
Decode the ability to climb walls of geckos
American scientists found that geckos are hardened to increase their ability to stick when climbing.
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.
Animal world
It is about time for giant snakes
It is a warning by scientists from the new study: warming temperatures can shrink mammalian size and produce giant reptiles.
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
People should only be as big as ... chickens in the future
In most of human history, large body sizes always have many advantages. Can be seen from our ancestors, they grow taller, faster, healthier to support the hunting and de…
Medicine - Health
11 reasons why men are shorter than women
The average life expectancy of women is 5 to 10 years higher than that of men. From before being born to the critical stages of life, men are more likely to die than wom…
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…