Cyclorana alboguttata (the burrowing frog) is one of the least known animals in the world. And certainly the fact that it's a frog doesn't help it all that much either. However, most of you would be surprised to learn that the vertebrate can do only what bacteria have been known to be capable of, which ... |
29 June 2009
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The oldest ancestor of the hedgehogs could be an 80 million years old mammal found in Mongolia (which lived during the dinosaur era). The oldest known hedgehogs lived in Europe, 45 million years ago. In Africa, the oldest hedgehogs remains are 30 million years old. 10 million years ago, there were hedgehogs in North ... |
15 November 2007
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When you hear about hibernation, you instantly think about the northern snowed plains and marmots, ground squirrels and hedgehogs. But in the generally snowless Australia, its highest mountains are the 'home' of the only hibernating marsupials. The mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) was first discovere... |
30 October 2007
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Bears do not really hibernate. They can awake very quickly from their winter sleep and their temperature, heart beat and pulse do not drop significantly. Anyway, they pass the winter in an immobility stage and they go out of their dens in a very good shape. In northern regions, like Canada or Siberia, bears can spend... |
7 May 2007
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Spring in the temperate areas is the time when a cycle interrupted by the winter is restarted. Many people are worried by the fact that the extremely warm winters - due to the current man made global warming - could make trees bloom in January or February. But this is not going to happen, as plants and most animals r... |
17 April 2007
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Imagine this scenario: you are busy working on your brand new Windows Vista powered laptop and just when you turn around for a minute, the operating system is short of a few features. Well, this is a tad exaggerated, to be honest. However, it does not mean that indeed you cannot find features missing from Windows Vis... |
15 March 2007
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