Biology
A 3,000 year old olive tree still bears fruit
Thanks to the method of dating by luminescence, the scientists found the time to plant ancient olive trees with trunk circumference up to 12.5 m.
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Biology
Split trunks caught fire from the inside
The hollow trunk of Trinity, Texas, burns in and out, possibly due to lightning strikes.
Biology
Why are cylindrical trunks?
Geometry tells us that the area of a circle is larger than any other.
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Mysterious bicycle swallowing tree
Contrary to the theory that the bike was forgotten by a boy, some people suspected that someone had hung it on a tree.
Archeology
Ancient Kangaroo: Steel-hard jawbone that can split large trunk
More than forty thousand years ago, the wilderness of Australia was also once inhabited by a powerful animal - ancient Kangaroos that are gigantic in size.
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Unique 'camouflage' method for watchtowers during World War I
The burnt tree trunks on this battlefield turned out to be very effective enemy watchpoints during the First World War.
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Why does a tree have a hole, even if it is not made by humans?
In a cold place like the forests in Quebec (Canada), the snow just started to melt. This is not worth mentioning if the snow doesn't melt ... systematically like this!
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Where would it be safest to hide in a place in a gunfight?
You think that the following materials will save you in the shooting: brick walls, trunk, doors ...?
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China: Buddha's head is revealed from a 1,000-year-old tree trunk
A newly discovered Buddha statue inside the ancient camphor tree in Kaoting village, Jianyang town, Fujian province, China.
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Harmless when taking 4 familiar things inside the trunk of the motorcycle
The more society develops, the more complex it is, so the higher the need to protect people's belongings. And also for that reason, most of us have created for ourselves…
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Perverted customary burial of children in the trunk
A tribe living in remote areas in Indonesia maintains a strange death burial regime dating back thousands of years.
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Trees can become a clean energy source
According to NewScientist, plugging the electrode plate into the trunk to obtain electric current seems to be an unbelievable thing ...
1001 mystery
The mystery of the giant tree trunk stands in the middle of the lake for 100 years
The mysterious trunk was discovered on Lake Crater for the first time in 1902, with an elevation of about 9.1m, rising from the water surface about 1.2m.
1001 mystery
The mysterious crack is 110 meters long in the American forest
Menominee cracks in the state of Michigan, USA, may appear after a tree trunk was removed from the area just a few days before the landslide.
Oceanography
Decode the mysterious lobster age
For the first time, scientists have found a way to determine the age of lobsters, by counting their rings, like rings in the trunk.