Oceanography
Moon fish can weigh more than two tons
The world's largest vertebrate fish, moonfish can reach 4.3m in length and 2.3 tons in weight, making people extremely small when swimming next to them.
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Oceanography
Smaller fish because of climate change
Dr. William Cheung, an expert at the University of British Columbia in Canada, and his colleagues modeled the impact of global temperature rise on more than 600 species…
Oceanography
Catch the largest giant cod in Europe
A 1.5m-long cod, weighing 42kg, is recognized as the largest fish ever caught in European waters. Mr. Morten Hvam - passenger on a fishing trip off Soroya Island in Norw…
Oceanography
How many fish species on Earth?
So far the science of recognizing fish is the richest, most crowded and diverse organism of all vertebrates present on Earth, with more than 23,000 species.
Archeology
Animal weight today compared to ancient relatives
Today's animals like boars, sharks, crocodiles, are much smaller in weight than their extinct ancient relatives.
Archeology
Special vertebral structure helps dinosaurs support body weight
Paleontologist specializing in vertebrate animals John Fronimos at the University of Michigan (USA) introduced him to discover the unique structural characteristics of v…
Archeology
Footprints of 3.6 million years of prehistoric people reveal many secrets
Based on footprints, scientists accurately calculated the height and weight, habits of prehistoric people from nearly 4 million years ago.
Archeology
New discovery: Hand fin ever had lungs
This is not the first time that finfish scoff at science. During the 19th century, this 2m long fish and 100kg weight were classified as extinct species.
Archeology
Talent of dinosaurs when hatching eggs
Adult Oviraptorosauruses dinosaurs arrange their nests so that their body weight is centered on the nest, to avoid crushing the surrounding eggs when hatching eggs.
Archeology
Detected 34kg of ancient copper coins dating back thousands of years
On February 25, Mr. Tran Anh Tuan, Director of Quang Binh Provincial Museum said: At Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hai's house, (residing in Loc Ninh commune, Dong Hoi city), while d…
Archeology
Found strange artifacts in Ho's citadel
Artifacts are crafted from stone, trapezoidal, head with round holes through, weight tons. Scientists have identified that this object is used in gunfire techniques agai…
Archeology
Tyrannosaurus is more violent than we think
British and American archaeologists, recently, discovered the tyrannical dinosaur (T-Rex) much bigger, far more violent than human imagination.
Archeology
Dead dinosaurs, mammals
The size of mammals has increased 1,000 times after the extinction of dinosaurs on Earth, according to research results ...
Archeology
1,800-year-old marble statue
The marble statue shows a miniaturized head of bearded man unearthed by Israeli ancient monk experts in the Givati parking area at the deputy David, Jerusalem National…