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Head Hunting, Painted Skulls and the Tree of Life |
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Beaked whales get their name from the shape of their snouts and their large size, but these cetaceans are close-related to dolphins. This family of toothed cetaceans is amongst the least known mammalian families. They measure between 3,4 to 12 m (11 to 40 ft) length and weigh 1 to 15 tones. They make deep dives and f... |
11 February 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Do you think you're sexy when smoking? Think more. I am not talking about deadly issues connected to smoking, like heart attack, stroke, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and cancers. Smoking can really impair your sex life, cause what's attractive in being impotent, sterile, wrinkled, yellowed skinned and too... |
11 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Our scalp has about 100,000 hair follicles. About 100 of them stop working daily and, consequently, hairs fall. But at the same rate they are replaced. Of course, this is the case when baldness is not encoded in your genes. Scientists are still trying to understand the pathway of baldness genetics, but two recent re... |
26 February 2008
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NASA confirms it: the surface temperature of Greenland's ice sheet is going up, fueled by warming air, causing a melt at the surface of and throughout the mass of the ice cap. A total melting of the Greenland ice would raise sea level by about 23 ft (7.8 m). This may not happen, but Greenland has been adding 2 m... |
26 February 2008
03:58 GMT |
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No alibi for killers, no unknown origins for the victims: a new crime-fighting tool analyze human hair for revealing location, helping police to follow the past movements of criminal suspects or murder victims. "You are what you eat and drink - and that is recorded in your hair," said lead researcher Thure Cerling, a... |
26 February 2008
05:02 GMT |
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Bunnies may look like fluffy eared rodents, but they are not. They have their own zoological order called Lagomorpha, which comprises hares, rabbits and a Guinea pig-like family of mammals called pikas. Now, scientists have found what appears to be the oldest remains of an ancestor of today's rabbits and hares.... |
26 February 2008
05:33 GMT |
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There is only one true living sea lizard: the marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), a native of the Galapagos Islands. Despite their terrific look, with short snout, black eyes, large mouth and the crest of spikes (which are in fact soft at touch), long, flattened and powerful tail, long, sharp claws that give the... |
26 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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One of the most primitive human groups on Earth were the native inhabitants of the Tierra del Fuego ("Land of Fire") island, at the southern tip of South America, a stormy, cold and inhospitable area, discovered by Magellan in 1520. The weather is cloudy almost all year long and violent storms are accompanied by trem... |
11 March 2008
16:51 GMT |
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Which is the most powerful creature in the world? You may think of the largest beasts, like elephants or whales, but the Hercules Beetle, one of the largest beetles in the world, can pull a weight up to 850 times its own weight. Can you imagine a lion dragging a 180-tonne blue whale? But the creature has even more tr... |
12 March 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Head hunting was a common practice in many Indigenous societies, from the Jivaro of the Amazon basin to the Dayaks of Borneo and many other Malay-Polynesian groups in Indonesia and Pacific islands. One of the most feared head hunter populations inhabits the island of New Guinea. The Asmat tribe is famous for its bloo... |
12 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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