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Together with the bighorn sheep, the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is one of the symbols of the Rocky Mountains, inhabiting their rough and barren cliffs and executing amazing stunts amongst the rocks. Today, no more than 5,000 mountain goats are found, about 1,500-2,000 being encountered in the Glacier Nationa... |
4 February 2008
09:11 GMT |
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1.The first deer appeared 50 million years ago. Eumeryx from Oligocene (35 million years ago) in Asia was devoid of antlers and had developed upper tusks, like modern day muntjacs. The first antlered deer appeared 20 MA ago: Dicroceros in Asia had simple antlers, forks on tall pivots. About 2 MA ago, when clime turne... |
24 January 2008
16:53 GMT |
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Chinese were the first people to make paper 2,200 years ago. They were inspired by wasps, noticing how they chewed wood to produce a material resembling paper for making their nests. Wood cellulose is the main raw material for making paper, but it can be replaced by other plant fibers. Wood cellulose can come from h... |
16 January 2008
08:46 GMT |
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1.European sailors navigating, a few centuries ago, in tropical waters could not believe their eyes: they were seeing mermaids, common in the sea folklore. The creature were fish-like from the waist beyond, had a pair of breasts in the chest area, and their flippers and heads vaguely resembled human head and arms fro... |
9 January 2008
15:32 GMT |
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Marmots are the world's largest... squirrels! They can be 45 cm (1.5 ft) tall when staying on two feet and weigh up to 14 kg (30 lbs). Marmots inhabit grasslands, from steppes to alpine pastures in Europe, Asia and North America. They eat twice a day: in the morning and in the evening, basically plants (they eve... |
19 December 2007
14:16 GMT |
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1. The closest relatives of the hippopotamus are ...the whales and dolphins!2-3 million years ago, there were numerous species of hippopotamus, including outside mainland Africa in Europe (UK included), Asia (plus Sri Lanka), and Madagascar. Hippopotamus gorgops, which inhabited deeper waters than the current species... |
24 November 2007
10:28 GMT |
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