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How do beavers build giant dams?
With their ability to build dams across streams, beavers are like architects who can restructure the surrounding ecosystem.
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Animal world
Red river hog - The most handsome pig in nature
Red river hog - The red river hog is a wild pig in the pig family that lives in Africa. It is rarely seen far from the rainforest and usually prefers areas near rivers o…
Animal world
Flock of 50 rare and mysterious parrots discovered in Australia
Indigenous rangers in Western Australia have discovered a colony of 50 night parrots, one of Australia's rarest and most mysterious birds.
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Why did Denmark change road lights to red?
Some Nordic countries, especially Denmark, have decided to replace the classic street lighting system that uses white light, with red diffused light models.
Animal world
The super rare parrot is causing scientists to give up 'why is it going to go extinct'?
For a nocturnal bird, this parrot is having an enormous evolutionary bug, making it harder to survive and once considered extinct.
Health
Why do not cough during the day and cough continuously affect sleep during the night?
Many people experience daytime coughing, non-stop coughing at night, which greatly affects the quality of sleep. This shows that the health encountered some instability.
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Decipher the surprising truth behind the ability to 'sleep without eyes' in the legend
Zhang Fei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms once had an anecdote sleeping without closing his eyes. But in real life, can humans do that?
Animal world
The most meek animal on the planet
No one else is the owl. With nocturnal lifestyles, not only are the superior predatory birds, owls are always a mysterious animal.
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The demonic nocturnal festivities stir up from East to West
Besides Halloween, there are still many other evil festivals happening all over the world. Find out some of the famous devil festivals around the world below.
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People have nighttime sleeping habits thanks to ... extinct dinosaurs?
This basic idea is based on the hypothesis of the 'nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis', which appeared in 1942. This hypothesis suggests that ancient mammals have been acti…
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Have you ever wondered: Where do mosquitoes go?
Mosquitoes are not as gentle as cockroaches, they especially like our blood. And since they can fly (cockroaches can also fly only a short distance), they are more annoy…
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Discover Napoleon's horrifying nocturnal mystery in the Egyptian pyramid
Napoleon was a brave man, a talented general of France. On the battlefield he was not afraid of any enemy but a night of sleep in the Egyptian pyramid made that brave ma…
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Why do you take a photo of your eyes when you take a photo of 'vampire'?
Although current technology simplifies capturing art shots, the effect
Oceanography
The ocean will become a strange world every night
Blue light waves, synchronized breeding corals, directional positioning with stars etc. are strange phenomena that can only be witnessed after dark.
Archeology
Elephant birds are nocturnal and blind
Researchers at the University of Texas say the bird, once living in Madagascar, is a nocturnal species and is likely to be blind, based on studying its brain shape.