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The Sexiest Legs: 5% Longer than Average

Long legs are considered to add a note of sexiness to a person's look. And if you thought than only men have an obsession with this issue regarding women, you are wrong: women too assess how sexy a man is, based on this. A new research discovered that taller people are more physically attractive to the opposite...

19 January 2008
05:48 GMT

Long Legged Women Have Healthier Livers!

Are you turned on by long-legged women? In this case, you really prefer healthier women. A complex British research, made at the Bristol University and published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, has found that women with shorter legs display a higher vulnerability to liver disease. The study was c...

19 December 2007
04:35 GMT

The Pooch of the Future: Military Robotic Dogs

There's quite a long way to go till we will have robotic wives and husbands around the house; so, for the moment, it seems that our dogs in the near future might just be … made of metal (or plastic). If not around the house, at least in the conflict areas. The four-legged dog robots are now the size of a Chihuah...

27 September 2007
06:36 GMT

A 7-Legged Hermaphrodite Lamb!

One more leg, and this would have been an octopus in disguise. A six-day-old lamb born at a veterinary clinic on New Zealand's South Island came to this world on its seven legs! "Two of the extra legs hang useless behind the lamb's forelegs. The animal has three hind legs, one of them with two hoofs. It wal...

2 August 2007
14:06 GMT

Why Can Mosquitoes Walk on Water?

Nature invented the most annoying insects: mosquitoes. They carry diseases, suck blood and what's worst, they are practically everywhere in the world, from tropics to poles. Still, they have some amazing abilities (apart from detecting us no matter how the weather is): they can both walk on water and cling to w...

19 July 2007
03:45 GMT

Why Do Humans Have Such Long Legs?

Look at the apes. These tree-dwelling creatures have extremely long arms (with a span up to 2m or 6 ft!) while their legs are short. That's why a "skinny" roughly 200 kg (500 pounds) male gorilla can be no taller than 1.7-1.8 m (5.5-6 ft). So, how to explain the inverse human anatomy, which may seem silly for a...

14 March 2007
06:50 GMT




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