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This vegetable is richer in calcium than milk, good to eat raw or cooked.
Lettuce is a relative of lettuce. However, not many people know about and eat this vegetable.
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Who were implicated in the extermination of the entire family? Why didn't the prisoners' relatives escape?
Extermination of the entire clan - a cruel punishment that makes people tremble.
Archeology
The mystery of the death of a giant monkey over 3m tall that once existed throughout China
Standing at over 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) tall, Gigantopithecus Blacki was the largest primate to ever exist on Earth (at least that we know of). The beast roamed all o…
Health
The Scary Truth About Inbreeding: The Curse of Genes, Nature's Last Line of Defense!
In the natural world, reproduction between living organisms is an important task. However, when this natural process encounters inbreeding, it can have shocking conseque…
Archeology
Giant 'monster dragon' revealed, 90 million year old relative of snake
A completely new species of sea monster has just been found in Mexico, with a body up to 5.2 m long, a long snout like a crocodile and is an extremely fearsome predator.
Animal world
New discovery in dogs points to paradox in nature
Brain size in some dog breeds does not seem to correlate with their intelligence.
Biology
How did German cockroaches invade the world?
New research traces the evolution of German cockroaches throughout human history from the Islamic empires to present-day Europe.
Archeology
Why did prehistoric people disappear and modern people developed until today?
Humans today dominate the world, while our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, are extinct. The surprising answer is not intelligence at all.
Animal world
Paradox: The more 'big' animals eat, the less physics can explain?
The fact that animals with larger body sizes consume less energy relative to small animals is a conundrum with biology.
Biology
Ants help scientists discover thousands of fossils
A team of paleontologists recently discovered 10 previously unknown species of ancient mammals with the help of reaping ants.
Animal world
Why is the 'happiest animal in the world' endangered?
What is the happiest animal on the planet? Maybe it's the 'smiling kookaburra' - one of the Halcyoninae kingfisher subfamily with its white head and brown eye stripes, o…
Biology
New DNA technology makes us 'redraw' the evolutionary tree
If you find yourself physically different from your blood relatives, you must have felt isolated from your family in some way.
Oceanography
Why are deep-sea animals often huge in size?
Many large deep-sea animals outnumber their relatives elsewhere, perhaps for environmental reasons or for survival purposes.
Oceanography
Discover the fish family with the most monstrous species in the world
The Syngnathiformes family includes seahorses and many extremely bizarre relatives, worthy of being considered the 'masterpieces' of the creator.
History
Little known truth about old posters: It's hard for criminals to escape!
Even though the pictures on the posters are so badly drawn that even relatives of the criminals can hardly recognize them. But, criminals are still hard to escape! Why?