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Download the Free App That Stopped Apple’s 25 Billion Countdown

Don’t be reluctant to try out the app that marked Apple’s 25 billion downloads - it doesn't cost a dime. Chunli Fu, the winner of Apple’s $10,000 iTunes gift card, downloaded the free version of Disney’s "Where's My Water?”, which means you can do the same. Right now! The App ...

5 March 2012
11:16 GMT

The Giant Extinct Relatives of the Living Reptiles

Today, only five groups of reptiles still exist: chelonians (turtles and terrapins), Sphenodontia (the tuatara of New Zealand), lizards, snakes and crocodilians (crocodiles, alligators and caymans). (there is also a recently recognized group related to lizards and snakes, Amphisbaenia). They are relict groups (except...

18 April 2008
16:11 GMT

Alligator Blood Could Treat HIV

We rather associate alligators and crocodiles with death, but these creatures could one day save your life, as a research team signaled at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society. Blood proteins of the alligators could deliver new powerful antibiotics against infections accompanying diabetic ulcer...

8 April 2008
02:47 GMT

Everglades: Alligators and Crocodiles

Everglades National Park was founded in 1947 in southern Florida to protect the fauna and flora of a territory of 600,000 hectares (6,000 square km or 2,400 square mi) of an unique but fragile beauty, one of the ecologically most menaced American territories. 1.400 mi (2.200 km) of canals and 125 surveillance structu...

29 February 2008
09:07 GMT

Crocodile Tears Are Very Real!

To "cry crocodile tears" is a common expression which is used for depicting fake sadness. It has its origins in the myth according to which reptiles weep while eating humans. But, believe it or not, a new research made at the University of Florida revealed the big beasts really do shed tears while feasting, but rathe...

4 October 2007
05:40 GMT

A Mathematical Model for the Death Roll

Steve Irwin made famous through his crocodile wrestling the spectacular spin with its devastating results of these reptiles. Now a team made of a biologist and physicist, based on high-speed video recordings of young alligators spinning realized a scientific approach to this behavior. This way, they created a first m...

4 April 2007
05:39 GMT


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