50,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD from Acer
	About one month ago, Acer announced a 24-inch full-HD display, classified as being a "world's first". We have not seen that on the market yet, but Acer says it has another wild beast in development, the 24-inch Acer G24 LCD monitor with a 50,000:1 contrast ratio. No word on where it ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2008, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

About Dingo
	They are shot, trapped, poisoned by sheep and cattle farmers. No wonder that the Australian wild dog, the dingo, is menaced. Ecologists warn that pure breed animals may vanish in 40-100 years, due to the cross with the ordinary dogs. By now, the main issue is the proliferation of the hybrids. Dingoes mate once a year, while the hybrids, just like ordinary dogs, do it twice a year. In 2006, a research showed that the decreased number of ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 14:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Deadly Sharks
	The biology books say that sharks and rays make the group of cartilaginous fish, less evolved than most of the other species, that make the group of the bonny fish. Still, sharks, with their highly developed senses and teeth, make the top predators of the seas. Paradoxically, the two largest species of shark, that make also the largest fish species, are harmless for people, being plankton feeders, like the whales: the whale shark (Rhi ... [read more >>]
	22 March 2008, 07:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women Are Turning into Sexual Predators
	Biological rules say the male is the active sex in humans. They look for fertilizing as many females as possible for the maximum biological effectiveness, being real sexual predators, always ready for some hanky-panky, while women look for quality and a partner for a monogamous relationship, who is able to deliver and care for the children. But all these are blown up in modern society. A comprehensive survey carried out by th ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Not Online Sex Predator but Lover, Study Shows
	The framed image of the guy lurking in the shadow, deceiving his way into a date with an unsuspecting youngster and later raping him or her, was shattered to pieces by a study conducted in a report issued by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. Janis Wolak of the team conducting it wiped the above image and instead brought one that, she says, based on the study’s results, ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

5 Things About Martens and Polecats
	1. Martens differ from other animals in the weasel's family by being excellent climbers. They spend the day sleeping in the trees and have cats' ability, being able to make jumps through the branches of the trees as easy as the squirrels. Amongst the martens of the Old World, beech marten is the most widespread in Europe and Central Asia and has a white spot under the chin that prolongs to the uper fore limbs. Pine mart ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 16:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Terror of the Wild West: Grizzly Bear
	The grizzly bear is nothing more than the North American form of the Eurasian brown bear. Once, the terrible grizzly bear was in the whole western half of North America, from Alaska to northern Mexico. Today, it is still present in Alaska and Canada, while in the rest of the US it barely survives in Montana, Washington, Idaho and Wyoming (except Yellowstone). This large bear inhabits from tundra to forests. The female gives birth duri ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 02:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Some Amazing Facts About Ladybirds
	We usually detest insects, but this one is amongst our favorites. Ladybirds are beautiful, but for reputed gardeners they are also very useful. Why? Because their food is made almost entirely of plant lice, small soft bodied insects that invade garden plants and crops. Ladybirds eat plant lice both as adult and larva. A sole ladybird eats thousands of plant lice during its lifetime, but also other damaging insects. Some ladybirds also eat ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 07:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Amazing Facts About the Great White Shark
	It is difficult to trigger the sympathy of the audience with a giant conical head, a set of huge razor sharp serrated teeth, a carnivorous appetite, a malicious grin and a reputation of "man-eater". The slightest encounter with people is enough to fill the headlines. 1.With a strong rocket-like body, up to 7.2 m (24 ft) long and up to 3.4 tons heavy, the great white shark is the world's largest predator fish (even at 6.4 ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pillots to See Through Planes!
	When I look at this, I have to say that the fellows from Daily Mail.com were right. It is only the neck and shoulders that prove there is a human being in there somewhere. And this isn’t any Star Trek or Final Fantasy kind of trick, but the next generation of RAF fighter pilots’ look, which kinda makes you wish you were in the army. Since I went hiding under my bed when seeing this, mostly because of the piercing green eyes ... [read more >>]
	10 November 2007, 10:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Oldest Fossil Russian Doll: 290 Million Years Old
	This is a 290 million years old Russian doll, on a pattern shark-amphibian-fish. An extraordinary fossil preserved both the predator's last meal, and also the last meal of the prey, in a period long before the emergence of the dinosaurs, being the oldest snapshot of a vertebrate food chain, described in a new research published online last month in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Usually, the last meal is hard to p ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 04:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

14 Amazing Facts About Crocodiles
	1. The largest crocodile species is saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), encountered from India to northern Australia and Fiji. In can reach 7 m (23 ft) in length and 1 tonne in weight! At 5 m (17 ft) length, it already has 0.5 tonne! Even so, a crocodile egg is no larger than that of a goose! The smallest crocodile is the dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) from central Africa, which has a maximum length of 1.9 m (6.5 ft). ... [read more >>]
	03 November 2007, 08:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

7 Things You Did Not Know About Tigers
	1. Today we say the tiger is the king of the jungle but the tiger originated in the Pleistocene of Asia, about 2 million years ago, in a clime of temperate forests. This nocturnal and solitary cat has a territory varying in the case of the male from 60 square kilometers in tropical forests and savannas to 4,000 square km in prey-poorer Manchurian forest. Females have smaller territories: 30 to 500 square km, and the territory of a male com ... [read more >>]
	03 November 2007, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fish Swallows Four Times Bigger Prey Fish!
	Logic will always sustain that big fish eat small fish. But what a fisherman from Grand Cayman has found could be a world record contradicting the ‘rule’. McPherson ‘Dorson’ Wright was fishing at about 1,400 feet (570 m) off the South Coast of Grand Cayman, when he observed an object floating on the sea surface. He approached to see what that was and what found a dead fish that left him and scientists open-mouthed: the fish h ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 12:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Largest Land Predator Ever
	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". [img=2]Indeed, a huge beast: up to 12.8 (42 ft) in length and 7.2 tonnes in weight. Bigger than an elephant! For 150 years, T-rex has been regarded as the giant of the carnivore dinosaurs. Then, in 1993, a lo ... [read more >>]
	24 October 2007, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Man-Eater Lion
	People are an easy prey for any large predator. And between death by hunger and death by shooting, perhaps a lion won't starve till dying. In Mozambique, the rainy season is the moment when the lions turn into man-eaters, because the too tall grass impedes them to approach to their normal preys. This happened in Fort Mangoche: a man was standing in front of his hut, beating the drum, while the woman was cooking. The hut was locate ... [read more >>]
	20 October 2007, 06:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Deadly Light of Sex
	They may look like little living lanterns that bestow a fairytale atmosphere on rural landscape during summer months, but a new research made at Tufts University has found a dark side behind the magic show of the fireflies. The researchers found that even if fireflies waste little energy to produce the flash signals, something stops males from getting flashier, even if this would mean more sex: predation. Photinus firefly males bro ... [read more >>]
	26 September 2007, 04:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Buzz Off, Predator!
	When the cat's away/The Mice will play. Prey animals, like the moose, caribou, bison and elk can lose their fear of predators if they are not constantly hunted by them, as found by Joel Berger of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York. But they were also found to "relearn" their fears very quickly, in just one generation, a good news for programs trying to reintroduce predator species into their natural habitats ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 05:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Halo 3 Content Discovered – Armour Parts
	Just a few days ago, the Internet blew up in flames with news about modders being able to break into the Halo 3 Beta code and extract vital information on future new implemented features in the game. Today's news brings even more hot features and items, found by the ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2007, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Global Warming and Ice Predators
	Can it be that simple: no ice, no polar bears? In the International Polar Year (IPY), Norwegian researchers at the University of Tromso will start four projects investigating how climate change due to global warming affects Arctic's predators, like the the Arctic fox, now an endangered species. "We will collaborate with several researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute and the University of Moscow," says lead researc ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2007, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How the Minigun (Chaingun) Works
	One of the most important technologies of the past 100 years, according to most historians, is the machine gun. it was probably what contributed most to the development of both World War I and World War II, and set the tone for future, local wars. It only took one soldier equipped with this machine gun to start firing thousands of bullets per minute, thus effectively knocking down entire platoons and squadrons in only a few minutes. th ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2007, 10:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia