 There are around 800 species of dinosaurs described worldwide. Dinosaur fossils ... [read >>]
Date: 21 February 2008, 10:08 GMT
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 Just like the Aztecs, the Inca empire had only one century to flourish. The empi... [read >>]
Date: 20 February 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 1. Those large hairy spiders are called tarantulas. Their name comes from the po... [read >>]
Date: 20 February 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 There are 8 living species of bears. Bears split of raccoons and bear-dogs about... [read >>]
Date: 19 February 2008, 10:19 GMT
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 For adapting to the environment, organisms have two choices: to change their phy... [read >>]
Date: 18 February 2008, 10:56 GMT
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 Snails make a group comprising over 75,000 species. Most snails are marine, but ... [read >>]
Date: 18 February 2008, 10:39 GMT
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 Many males have a bad life. We use to say that the male is an appendix of the pe... [read >>]
Date: 16 February 2008, 07:19 GMT
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 The thunderbolt is an electric discharge accompanied by a vivid light and a powe... [read >>]
Date: 16 February 2008, 03:34 GMT
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 Lake Titicaca is located at an altitude of 3,812 m (12,700 ft) in the Altiplano,... [read >>]
Date: 16 February 2008, 03:27 GMT
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 At the bottom of the oceans, the lowest level of the ocean waters, submarine vol... [read >>]
Date: 15 February 2008, 09:39 GMT
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 The name Tepui ("house of gods") comes from the language of the Pemon ... [read >>]
Date: 15 February 2008, 08:52 GMT
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 The first Homo sapiens employed caves against the cold or the hot weather, or to... [read >>]
Date: 14 February 2008, 09:27 GMT
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 Temperature can have an unlimited increase but it cannot drop below -273.15o C (... [read >>]
Date: 14 February 2008, 08:41 GMT
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 An ancient Egyptian belief said the lotus flower gave life to the Pharaonic Egyp... [read >>]
Date: 13 February 2008, 14:11 GMT
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 The coral reefs form the largest biological structures on Earth. And the largest... [read >>]
Date: 11 February 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 The world we live in is full of synthetic chemicals, most of which are toxic. Th... [read >>]
Date: 09 February 2008, 07:07 GMT
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 1. Gymnosperms dominated the Earth's flora during the Dinosaur Era until th... [read >>]
Date: 08 February 2008, 10:10 GMT
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 1.There are over 2,000 species of cacti, with various shapes and forms. Caldera ... [read >>]
Date: 08 February 2008, 02:16 GMT
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 Those Japanese can deliver you, like in a flowerpot, a 40 cm high oak tree, whic... [read >>]
Date: 07 February 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 Around 1500 AD, Europeans managed to kill the last ancestors of the domestic cat... [read >>]
Date: 06 February 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 The ancient Egyptians portrayed Anubis, the god of the dead, as a jackal-headed ... [read >>]
Date: 05 February 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 Together with the bighorn sheep, the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is one ... [read >>]
Date: 04 February 2008, 09:11 GMT
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 1. In the depths of the caves, where current airs, temperature and humidity are ... [read >>]
Date: 02 February 2008, 07:19 GMT
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 Too many males can cost, in biological terms, the female. Females ‘going’ from o... [read >>]
Date: 02 February 2008, 06:02 GMT
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 There's nothing impressive in this Australian frog: dull coloration and jus... [read >>]
Date: 02 February 2008, 04:59 GMT
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 Emu (Dromicaeus novaehollandiea) is represented on the emblem of Australia, bein... [read >>]
Date: 01 February 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 1. Life in the Andes would be impossible without them. When a house is built on ... [read >>]
Date: 31 January 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 1. Some Indian tribes avoid killing it while others adore it as a divinity. In t... [read >>]
Date: 30 January 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 In a top of intelligence, humans are followed by apes, elephants and dolphins. T... [read >>]
Date: 30 January 2008, 10:47 GMT
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 There are 112 active or inactive volcanoes in Costa Rica, but Poas, 2,700 m (9,0... [read >>]
Date: 30 January 2008, 07:01 GMT
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 1. Today there are about 21,000 species of bony fish, inhabiting all marine and ... [read >>]
Date: 29 January 2008, 16:36 GMT
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