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These are the most impressive carnivorous plants, having spectacular traps: pitcher plants (Nepenthes), growing in various places, from Madagascar and southeastern Asia to northeastern Australia. The 117 species are also dubbed "Monkey cups" as monkeys have been spotted drinking rainwater from them. These plants are ... |
29 January 2008
05:07 GMT |
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1.Hyenas appeared 25 million years ago from ancestors related to the civet cats. Even if the size of civet cats, those early hyenas already had molars for breaking bones. Cave hyena, that inhabited Europe during the Ice Age, was twice the size of the modern spotted hyenas. 2.Spotted hyena is the largest living hyena.... |
23 January 2008
03:31 GMT |
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1.There are two species of minks. Even if they belong to the same genus of the stoats, weasels and polecats, Mustela, they do not have a common origin, but are the result of convergent evolution. This is proven by skull characters, karyotype (number and shape of the chromosomes), immunology. 2.Minks are solitary crea... |
14 January 2008
16:16 GMT |
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T-rex was not exactly the champ of the bullies during the dinosaur era. It was indeed up to 12.8 (38 ft) long and 7.2 tonnes heavy (more than an elephant!), but the 1993 discovered Giganotosaurus from Argentine was longer: up to 13.6 m (40 ft) long. Still, the largest carnivore dinosaur (and land carnivore in genera... |
12 December 2007
05:10 GMT |
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The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscicapula), inhabiting bogs in North and South Carolina (southeastern US) is a carnivorous plant, more known for catching and digesting animal prey (insects and arachnids) with a trap made by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves. The mechanism by which the trap shuts is... |
5 December 2007
05:37 GMT |
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These are the most amazing carnivorous plants: the 117 pitcher plant species of the genus Nepenthes, found from Madagascar and southeastern Asia to northeastern Australia. They possess the most spectacular traps, even if considered amongst the least sophisticated functionally, till the publication of a new research i... |
21 November 2007
06:07 GMT |
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When you think about something huge that has caused terror on earth, T-rex is perhaps the first thing that comes to your mind. It was popular before, and its image became extremely popular with the movie "Jurassic Park". Indeed, a huge beast: up to 12.8 (42 ft) in length and 7.2 tonnes in weight. Bigger than an eleph... |
24 October 2007
15:11 GMT |
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Global warming and overfishing come with unpleasant surprises. Packs of aggressive and large squids have invaded waters off California's central coast, destroying local fish populations. Humboldt or jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) is an aggressive carnivore up to six feet (2 m) long and 100 pounds (45 kg) nickname... |
24 July 2007
04:10 GMT |
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