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Body art is controversial, and has many forms of manifestation, some more subtle, other more obvious, defying and even shocking. Tattoos are just one example of what happens when people take to their own skins to assert their personalities. Far from being a practice seen as exclusively reserved for sailors and bikers... |
13 June 2008
08:55 GMT |
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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
05:13 GMT |
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Tongue is an organ specific to the vertebrates. And they can do a lot of things with their tongues...1. A blue whale weighing 60-70 tons (and the largest blue whales can double this weight) has a 3 tons tongue. It is by far the largest tongue in the animal world. And the whale tongue is not large because of the overa... |
12 April 2008
07:04 GMT |
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Despite the extreme long neck of the giraffe, the animal has the same number of neck (cervical) vertebrae like humans and most mammals: 7. In fact, as paradoxically as it sounds, the giraffe has the shortest neck relative to the foot length amongst all hoofed mammals! That's why they have to execute that clumsy ... |
10 March 2008
10:30 GMT |
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1.There is a whole order of fish, comprising 18 families, called anglerfish. The first spiny ray of the dorsal is located on the head and transformed into line and esca (bait), aimed for attracting prey to the mouth, imitating small marine creatures making the fish's food. The most famous fish of this order be... |
12 January 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Zac Efron really thinks he's God's gift to teenagers, doesn't he? Well, in some twisted way maybe he is, but I still think (allegedly) wearing fake eyelashes and putting on that much make-up is a definite turn-off when it comes to tween heartthrobs. The fact is, Zac definitely knows how to strut his st... |
11 January 2008
05:57 GMT |
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Some say that in a world of senses, taste is the queen. It is a pleasure, but also a protection that can tell the difference between what's good to eat and what could be harmful. Still, taste is so personal, that many have linked it to the personality of the individual. Some are sweet, others are not, and make a... |
7 November 2007
15:26 GMT |
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1. The Chameleons' closest relatives are ...the iguanas and dragon lizards (Agamidae). In fact, there are iguanas living in Americas called false chameleons, that resemble a lot the real chameleons of the Old World, and even have the ability of changing their color. The oldest known chameleon is the Mimeosaurus,... |
20 October 2007
07:53 GMT |
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It has already been predicted that by the end of the century, half of the languages spoken now worldwide will be gone. Not by evolving into another language (like Latin into Italian, Spanish, French or Romanian), but by being wiped out by other languages. A team has detected five global "hot spots" of indigenous lang... |
19 September 2007
04:35 GMT |
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Don't you believe that your body knows how your gut content tastes like? A team from the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has detected the same receptors for sweet taste in the tongue, T1R3 and the taste G protein gustducin, in the human intestines. These two sweet-sensing proteins ar... |
22 August 2007
06:35 GMT |
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This technique could turn Stephen Hawking into a hacker. The pressure waves in the ear induced by tongue movements could help paralyzed people interface with computers. This could help people experiencing quadriplegia due to spinal cord injuries (mainly because of car crash), about 6,000 new cases annually in US, but... |
3 August 2007
05:00 GMT |
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It is true that a whale's tongue can be 3 tons heavy but that of a humpback whale wrecked Wednesday on the steep, rocky shores of Admiralty Island (south of Juneau, southeast Alaska) was really unusual: its swollen tongue was the size of a small car!It is believed that a collision with a ship forced air into the... |
19 July 2007
04:22 GMT |
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We all know chameleons, especially for some of their performances, like the ability of changing color or for their special hunting technique. While the ability of changing color is not so singular in the animal world (many fishes, cephalopods like octopuses and squids, or even other lizards have it), their technique ... |
7 March 2007
11:02 GMT |
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