 By simply casting a look towards our surroundings we can say that the amazing &q... [read >>]
Date: 22 April 2008, 09:44 GMT
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 Nowadays, the seas belong mainly to fish and sea mammals. But during the Mesozoi... [read >>]
Date: 21 April 2008, 11:26 GMT
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 1. The largest brain belongs to the sperm whale: 7 kg (17.5 kg). The blue whale,... [read >>]
Date: 21 April 2008, 10:12 GMT
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 Even the prehistoric people knew that the Sun was the driving force of life on E... [read >>]
Date: 21 April 2008, 09:35 GMT
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 Water appeared on Earth 3.5 billion years ago and it is perhaps the most valuabl... [read >>]
Date: 21 April 2008, 08:56 GMT
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 Volcanoes are the result of the tectonic movements of the Earth's crust, wh... [read >>]
Date: 19 April 2008, 07:57 GMT
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 Mammals evolved from reptiles, that's for sure. Primitive living mammals, t... [read >>]
Date: 19 April 2008, 06:39 GMT
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 There's nothing faster on the ground than a cheetah on the hunt. The maximu... [read >>]
Date: 19 April 2008, 05:13 GMT
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 You may look at the stars like J-Lo or Madonna and see how they manage to keep i... [read >>]
Date: 18 April 2008, 16:21 GMT
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 Today, only five groups of reptiles still exist: chelonians (turtles and terrapi... [read >>]
Date: 18 April 2008, 16:11 GMT
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 The Foraminifera ("Hole Bearers") represent a group of amoeba-related ... [read >>]
Date: 18 April 2008, 09:59 GMT
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 Mammals are supposed to have bloomed after the disappearance of the dinosaur, 65... [read >>]
Date: 18 April 2008, 09:15 GMT
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 It's in vogue to go to the shrink. You see it everywhere: everybody does it... [read >>]
Date: 17 April 2008, 11:12 GMT
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 Wild spaces are crucial for the survival of the planet: they contribute to the m... [read >>]
Date: 17 April 2008, 09:39 GMT
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 Bipedalism is a term coming from "walking on two feet" in Latin. Human... [read >>]
Date: 17 April 2008, 08:53 GMT
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 Chinese researchers from the University of Xi'an found in 1999, in Kunming ... [read >>]
Date: 16 April 2008, 11:03 GMT
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 Japan has about 200 volcanoes, of which 70 are active. The most famous Japanese ... [read >>]
Date: 16 April 2008, 10:25 GMT
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 Danube Delta represents the largest wetland inside European Union. It is the nes... [read >>]
Date: 16 April 2008, 09:26 GMT
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 They are shot, trapped, poisoned by sheep and cattle farmers. No wonder that the... [read >>]
Date: 15 April 2008, 14:26 GMT
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 The centrifugal force generated by the spin of our planet would push us to the s... [read >>]
Date: 15 April 2008, 10:49 GMT
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 The emergence of the human settlements during the Neolithic, 10,000 years ago, c... [read >>]
Date: 15 April 2008, 10:11 GMT
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 No, toads do not cause warts (they are produced by viruses), nor scab, which is ... [read >>]
Date: 14 April 2008, 11:33 GMT
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 Circus, in its modern meaning, has been employing both domestic and wild animals... [read >>]
Date: 14 April 2008, 10:59 GMT
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 There are bacteria everywhere around us, and in infinite quantities. Some are go... [read >>]
Date: 14 April 2008, 09:09 GMT
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 There are three natural phenomena accompanying the storms that fascinated and fr... [read >>]
Date: 12 April 2008, 07:29 GMT
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 Tongue is an organ specific to the vertebrates. And they can do a lot of things ... [read >>]
Date: 12 April 2008, 07:04 GMT
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 Until 1951, nobody knew the source of the Orinoco River. Accumulating continuous... [read >>]
Date: 11 April 2008, 17:51 GMT
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 Scientists still debate if they are alive or not, but look what they can inflict... [read >>]
Date: 11 April 2008, 10:13 GMT
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 At the beginning of the 17th century, a Berber tribe took refuge in a totally ar... [read >>]
Date: 11 April 2008, 09:23 GMT
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 The Sino-Tibetan mountainous chain, also called the "the Alps of Sichuan&qu... [read >>]
Date: 11 April 2008, 08:46 GMT
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 In 1995, the Ministry of the Environment of South Africa launched the program &q... [read >>]
Date: 09 April 2008, 11:26 GMT
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