There's nothing faster on the ground than a cheetah on the hunt. The maximum speed is of 112 km (70 mi) per hour, but the average hunting speed is still of 72-90 km (46-56 mi) per hour. The elastic spine and the long legs allow the cheetah to make successive jumps 7 m (23 ft) in length each and in 2 seconds a ch... |
19 April 2008
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Science fiction medicine becomes increasingly real. There's still more to wait until seeing penises growing from ears and hearts from legs, but a Finnish team has replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone obtained from stem cells coming from his own fatty tissue and grown between his bowels. "T... |
7 February 2008
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The classical number of cobra dancing is a spoof. Even if the snakes would be tamed so that they would dance to the sound of the music, they could not do it. They just follow the tamer's continuous movements of the arms and knees, while he's playing a wind instrument, as snakes don't even hear the musi... |
26 January 2008
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Why do they call them wisdom teeth, when in fact what they can really induce is actually pain!?... Beyond the popular belief, a new study shows that these annoying molars are the result of an imbalance in the developmental mechanism that permits them to make their way into the back of the jaw while pressing on the ot... |
1 October 2007
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Moray eels are damn ugly fish and they could be a source of inspiration for many horror and SF movie characters. Over 200 species dwell in tropical seas worldwide, inhabiting holes in rocks and coral reefs. These eels can scare the hell out of novel scuba divers, as some can reach 10 feet (3 m) in length and display ... |
6 September 2007
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This is too fast for our eye. The soldiers of a lowly termite, Termes panamensis, snap their jaws at a speed that bypasses any other muscle-powered movement of any species.Marc Seid and Jeremy Niven of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama revealed that termites reach a speed of 70.4 m (220 ft) per se... |
8 August 2007
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Shark jaws are one the most terrible things invented by nature. But even if a Great White can be 7.2 m (24 ft) long and 3.2 tons heavy, fossils of sardine-sized fish could explain how these terrible teeth attached to their jawbones evolved. "The fish, which lived 420 million years ago, are a "very modest" beginning f... |
2 August 2007
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The famous Lucy did not come from nowhere. She had a grandfather, and recently discovered jawbones of that species, dug in northeast Ethiopia, could explain more on a virtually unknown period of human evolution. The new bones were discovered in the same fossil-rich Afar region, just 20 mi (32 km) north of the site wh... |
14 July 2007
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Tyrannosaurus rex was the terror of the dinosaur world. Now researchers not only have calculated the power of its terrible bite, but also the secret behind it: its hardened snout. "Fused, archlike nasal bones are a unique feature of tyrannosaurids. This adaptation, for instance, was keeping the T. rexes from breaking... |
21 May 2007
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If you think that fish speak just in cartoons, well….you're wrong!Researchers detected how clownfish - exactly the species depicted as Nemo - employ sound communication. By employing high-speed video imaging and X-ray technology, researchers discovered how fish use their jaws to emit warning sounds before expell... |
18 May 2007
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