A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal prismatic wax cells constructed by honey bees in their nests to house their larvae and honey and pollen stores. But did you know how the honeycombs turn into hexagons? The holes in honeycombs do not begin as hexagons. Bees build circular tubes that are staggered. The heat produced […]
Jane Goodall is a British ethologist who is popularly known for her long-term research on chimpanzees. But did you ever wonder what got her interested in these primates? Jane Goodall’s father gave her a plush chimpanzee named Jubilee instead of a teddy bear when she was a child. Goodall has stated that her admiration for
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The fur trade is a global industry that deals with the purchase and sale of animal fur. Furs from boreal, polar, and cold temperate mammalian animals have been the most valuable since creating a global fur market in the early modern period. The commerce fostered the exploration and colonization of Siberia, northern North America, and
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Armadillos are placental mammals under the order Cingulata. They are known for the bony plates that cover their entire body which serve as their first line of defense against predators. While there are different subspecies of this mammal, the nine-banded armadillo has a unique birthing pattern. Why do they give birth by 4s? Nine-banded armadillos
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For the longest time, we have associated the color pink with femininity. The color itself is said to represent tenderness and kindness but did you know that it was not always a girly color? When did the color pink become a girly color? Baby boomers of the 1940s were the first generation to be dressed
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By definition, any plant that, when touched or ingested in any quantity, would cause harm or may be fatal to an individual or organism can be deemed toxic. While there are several plan species that are poisonous and may cause an adverse effect on humans and other life forms, did you ever wonder what is
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The modern man is the ninth Homo species to evolve from 300,000 years ago, following habilis, erectus, rudolfensis, heidelbergensis, floresiensis, neanderthalensis, naledi, and luzonensis. Many of these human species have existed for much longer than we have. But did you ever wonder why there is only one human species today? Several human species coexisted with
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Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and are known for their role in pollination. Bees are best known for their ability to produce honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the Apoidea superfamily. They are now classified as a clade known as Anthophila. There are over 16,000 species of bees classified into seven
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Cryonics comes from the Greek word o kryos which means cold. It is the process of freezing and storing human remains at low temperatures hoping that resurrection will be possible in the future. But do you know how many people have already preserved their bodies cryogenically? As of 2014, 250 corpses had been cryogenically preserved
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Many significant events have shaped our globe. The spectacular trajectory of biological evolution is vividly documented by the fossil record, from the Cambrian explosion around 540 million years ago, when most animal forms originated through the rise and fall of the dinosaurs. What is the boring billion, and how does it affect our earth? Geologists
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