 1. Canary Islands are just the peak of mountain forming submarine volcanoes loca... [read >>]
Date: 29 January 2008, 15:36 GMT
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 1. The Andes, this backbone of South America, have a length of 7,600 km (4,800 m... [read >>]
Date: 28 January 2008, 16:07 GMT
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 Plants living in temperate or cold areas use to shed their leaves annually. That... [read >>]
Date: 28 January 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 1. The shore seems to be the edge of the continent, but that's not true: th... [read >>]
Date: 28 January 2008, 08:33 GMT
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 1. Plants have in their structure xylem tubes that transport water and mineral s... [read >>]
Date: 26 January 2008, 07:50 GMT
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 1. Despite the name of banana tree, Musa paradisiaca is a 7-8 m (23-27 ft) tall ... [read >>]
Date: 26 January 2008, 04:02 GMT
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 1. There are 80,000 species of living mollusks, classified in Gastropoda (snails... [read >>]
Date: 25 January 2008, 17:31 GMT
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 1. The bighorn sheep originates in Siberia. It reached North America 100,000 yea... [read >>]
Date: 25 January 2008, 16:54 GMT
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 1.The first deer appeared 50 million years ago. Eumeryx from Oligocene (35 milli... [read >>]
Date: 24 January 2008, 16:53 GMT
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 1. Soil is the fragile and loosened material covering most of the ground surface... [read >>]
Date: 24 January 2008, 08:40 GMT
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 1. Martens differ from other animals in the weasel's family by being excell... [read >>]
Date: 23 January 2008, 16:57 GMT
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 The theory of the plate tectonics and continental drift was accepted in the ... [read >>]
Date: 23 January 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 1.Hyenas appeared 25 million years ago from ancestors related to the civet cats.... [read >>]
Date: 23 January 2008, 03:31 GMT
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 1.There are about 900,000 described species of insects, forming 80% of the descr... [read >>]
Date: 22 January 2008, 16:56 GMT
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 Meteorological systems are continuously moving air masses, with diameters of 150... [read >>]
Date: 21 January 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 1.Reason, the ability to think, is considered distinctive for the human being. S... [read >>]
Date: 19 January 2008, 06:57 GMT
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 1.These are monkeys before turning into real monkeys. 50 million years ago, the ... [read >>]
Date: 19 January 2008, 03:43 GMT
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 1. You may believe that Mount Everest is the tallest in the world, with its 8,84... [read >>]
Date: 18 January 2008, 07:41 GMT
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 Since the 19th century, scientists noticed that similar fossils were found in no... [read >>]
Date: 17 January 2008, 16:56 GMT
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 1.Eared seals originated from Enaliarctidae, small mammals that inhabited the no... [read >>]
Date: 16 January 2008, 16:50 GMT
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 The achievement of information on the environment through a sensory pathway is c... [read >>]
Date: 16 January 2008, 16:06 GMT
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 First cities could develop only when people learned to build settlements and tra... [read >>]
Date: 16 January 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the case of Atlantis, the count... [read >>]
Date: 15 January 2008, 16:36 GMT
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 Kids look like their parents or grandparents, and brothers and sisters look alik... [read >>]
Date: 15 January 2008, 16:06 GMT
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 Lakes are classified depending on how they formed and on the quality of the wate... [read >>]
Date: 15 January 2008, 08:30 GMT
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 1.The name "dinosaur" comes from Old Greek "deinos" ("t... [read >>]
Date: 14 January 2008, 17:06 GMT
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 1.The Earth is wrapped in a layer of gas called atmosphere. Atmosphere is tied ... [read >>]
Date: 14 January 2008, 16:26 GMT
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 1.There are two species of minks. Even if they belong to the same genus of the s... [read >>]
Date: 14 January 2008, 16:16 GMT
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 Calcareous rocks, like limestone and marble (a rock modified by heat and pressur... [read >>]
Date: 14 January 2008, 11:35 GMT
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 1.There is a whole order of fish, comprising 18 families, called anglerfish. The... [read >>]
Date: 12 January 2008, 08:53 GMT
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 1.Otters are nothing more than water weasels. The oldest otter was found in Fran... [read >>]
Date: 11 January 2008, 16:52 GMT
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