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Grey Seals: The Lone Hunter
2008-04-15 11:53:00 Grey seals flock in huge numbers around the British coasts though they are also prevalent around the North-East Atlantic Ocean and Southern Iceland. Grey seals have a smooth skin and large nose and eyes. They are generally found around open rocky sea coasts and islands while sometimes they can also be seen at sandy beaches. Size The ... More About: Hunter , Grey , Lone
Coolest Star Spotted
2008-04-14 14:26:00 A team of scientists have discovered the coolest star which is about 40-light years away from the Earth. It has been unearthed that this dim-lit, cool and lonely star has a mass between 15-30 times the mass of Jupiter. The star, which is also being referred to as the ?brown dwarf star?, is said to have ... More About: Star
Whooping Crane
2007-10-08 08:34:00 Whooping crane is a very large bird which is endangered. An adult crane has a long neck and its legs are also long. They have a white body with black wingtips which are very prominent when they fly. The forehead and the checks are red in color. They have tufted feathers over the rump.An adult ... More About: Cran
The Endangered Red Wolf
2007-10-06 08:16:00 The red wolf is a small and a leaner cousin of the gray wolf. It is gray-black, with a reddish shed which gives it the color for which it is named. The red wolf is about 26 inches at the shoulders. It?s about 4.5-5.5 inches long and this includes the tail. A normal red wolf ... More About: Endangered , Wolf , Gere
The Arabian Oryx
2007-10-05 08:23:00 The Arab ian Oryx is a medium-sized antelope which weighs around 65 - 75 kg (140 - 170 lb). Before its extermination in the wild, it is believed to have occurred in flat and swelling gravel plains. The Arabian Oryx feed mainly on grasses. Herbs, seedpods, fruit, fresh growth of trees, tubers and roots are also a ...
Facts About Mercury
2007-10-02 03:46:00 According to the Roman mythology Mercury is the god of commerce, travel and robbery, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the Gods. The planet perhaps received this name because it moves so quickly across the sky. Mercury has been identified from the time when of the Sumerians. Only one space craft ... More About: Facts
Facts about Uranus
2007-09-29 05:16:00 Uranus is the early Greek deity of the Heavens, the earliest supreme god. Uranus was the son and mate of Gaia the father of Cronus and of the Cyclopes and Titans. Uranus is the first planet to be discovered in the modern times. It was discovered by William Herschel while analytically searching the sky with his ... More About: Facts
Facts about Neptune
2007-09-28 11:57:00 According to the Roman mythology Neptune was the god of the Sea. After the discovery of Uranus, it was observed that its orbit was not as it should be in accordance with Newton’s laws. It was then predicted that another more distant planet must be disturbing Uranus’ orbit. Neptune was first observed by Galle and d’Arrest ... More About: Facts
Facts about Pluto
2007-09-28 09:56:00 In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god of the underworld. The planet received this name perhaps because it’s so far from the Sun that it is in eternal darkness. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by a lucky accident. Calculations which later turned out to be in error had predicted a planet beyond Neptune, based on the ... More About: Facts
Facts about Saturn
2007-09-28 08:42:00 According to the Roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture. The related Greek god, Cronus, was the son of Uranus and Gaia and the father of Zeus (Jupiter). Saturn is the basis of the English word “Saturday”. Saturn has been well-known since primitive times. The first person to observe it with a telescope was Galileo; ... More About: Facts
Baby Dinosaurs Found In China
2007-09-21 15:03:00 The fossilized remnants of six baby dinosaurs that died in a volcanic mudflow have been found in China . According to researchers the dinosaurs were less than four years old, and most likely formed a “crèche” composed of babies from at least two different clutches. The Psittacosaurus finding indicates that the animals had ... More About: Baby , Dino , Dinosaurs
Facts about Jupiter
2007-09-21 13:09:00 Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest. Jupiter is more than twice as immense as all the other planets combined. And that is approximately 318 times of the Earth. Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky after the Sun, the Moon and Venus at some times ... More About: Facts , Jupiter
Baby Dinosaurs Found In China
2007-09-20 15:03:00 The fossilized remnants of six baby dinosaurs that died in a volcanic mudflow have been found in China . According to researchers the dinosaurs were less than four years old, and most likely formed a “crèche” composed of babies from at least two different clutches. The Psittacosaurus finding indicates that the animals had ... More About: Baby , Dino , Dinosaurs
Facts about Jupiter
2007-09-20 13:09:00 Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest. Jupiter is more than twice as immense as all the other planets combined. And that is approximately 318 times of the Earth. Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky after the Sun, the Moon and Venus at some times ... More About: Facts , Jupiter
Forty Mummies Found in Peru
2007-09-17 12:04:00 In Peru Archaeologists have found 40 mummies which are 1,200-year-old. Chachapoyas culture in the Amazon fortress of Kuelap, project leader Alfredo Narvaez told local media on Wednesday. He said that the mummies were found together with Inca pottery, and that they indicated signs of being affected by a fire in the archaeological complex, some 1,409 km ...
White-winged wood duck
2007-09-13 10:37:00 The scientific name of the white winged wood duck is Cairina scutulata. It is mostly found in countries like Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The male and female have a white head and neck which is spotted with black. The bill is orange, dappled with black. The wings are tipped with ... More About: White , Wood , Duck
Mummy of an Ancient Inca Girl
2007-09-13 04:15:00 The mummy of an ancient Inca girl called La Doncella or The Maiden sits literally frozen in sleep at a museum in Argentina.It is mummy of a teenage girl who died more than 500 years ago in a ritual sacrifice in the Andes Mountains. According to the archaeologists, the girl and two other children were left ... More About: Mummy , Girl , Ancient
The Greenhouse Effect
2007-09-11 08:22:00 The rise in temperature that the Earth experiences due to certain gases in the atmosphere is called the greenhouse effect. Water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, trap energy from the sun thus increasing the temperature. If these gases are not present, heat would escape into space and Earth?s average temperature would be much ... More About: Greenhouse , Effect , Greenhouse Effect , The G
Lemurs
2007-09-10 18:42:00 Lemurs are small primates known as “prosimians,” which, roughly translated, means “pre-primates” or “before monkeys.” They are a native of the island of Madagascar and the neighboring Comoro Islands. Lemurs bear a resemblance to the oldest ancestors of primates which existed tens of millions of years ago. To communicate with each other Lemurs use their sense ... More About: Murs
Asteroids
2007-09-08 20:51:00 Asteroids are small bodies that are supposed to be left over from the beginning of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. They are stony objects with round or uneven shapes up to several hundred km across, but most are much smaller. There are more than 100,000 asteroids lying in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. ... More About: Asteroids , Aster
The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica
2007-09-07 20:27:00 Like the scene of an ongoing game of marbles played by a long vanished race of Titans, Diquis Delta of Costa Rica is liberally scattered with an array of stone orbs. Known as Las Bolas Grandes numbering well over a thousand in total and happening in association with pre-Columbian artifacts, some of these granitic globes ... More About: Stone , Balls , Giant
Facts about Rainforests
2007-09-07 06:31:00 ? Every second rainforest to an extent of a football field are being destroyed. ? Each day a giant bamboo plant can grow up to 9 inches. ? The trees in a tropical rainforest are so closely knitted that rain falling on the canopy takes almost 10 minutes to reach the ground. ? Some monkeys in the rainforest ... More About: Facts , Forests , Rainforest
Facts about Venus
2007-09-05 08:15:00 “Of all the planets Venus is the brightest. It is known as both the Morning Star and the Evening Star”Venus is as big as the Earth but it is covered with dense clouds of carbon dioxide and sulfur compounds. Radar mapping of the planet shows lots of craters and that 90% of the landforms are ... More About: Facts
Fiddler Crabs
2007-09-04 23:31:00 One of the most abundant?and apparently busiest?creatures on earth is the fiddler crab. It is a tiny, close cousin to the ghost crab. It is easier to identify a male fiddler because of their enlarged fiddler claws which they wave or saw back and forth in a “fiddling” motion. The crabs do so in order ...
Killer Electrons
2007-09-04 06:26:00 Scientists have discovered the force that creates “killer electrons,” particles that pose danger to spacecraft and astronauts. The supercharged particles are also a threat to satellites, which are very important for phones, television, and other communication systems. These ?Killer electrons? are found in the outermost of Earth’s dough nut-shaped radiation belts. These belts circle the Earth ...
Images of Sun Like Never Before !
2007-03-05 07:11:00 Twin NASA spacecraft that are studying the sun have sent back spectacular first images of Earth that will help the scientists detect and track solar storms.This picture gives a close-up view of the sun’s activity, like the snapshot of loops in a magnetically active region that soon afterward produced a series of intense flares. Scientists say ... More About: Images , Like , Fore , Ages
Antarctic Ice Breakup Reveals New Species!
2007-03-02 06:12:00 New shrimp like crustacean species of in the genus Epimeria was found near an Island in Antarctica according to scientists. The 1-inch-long (2.5-centimeter-long) creature is among the many thousands of species that were collected during the first biological survey of a 3,860-square-mile (10,000-square-kilometer) section of the sea that was once covered with thick polar ice. A 500-billion-ton ... More About: Arctic , Brea
Mummies Found in Saqqara!
2007-02-26 07:35:00 Two 4,000-year-old wooden statues have been found, that depict some divine scribe records and his wife were the primary finds made from a recently excavated mud-brick tomb near the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara, according to the archaeologists. The discovery was a part of many other discoveries that were made recently in a cemetery that is ...
Colossal Squid Caught!
2007-02-23 06:12:00 New Zealand officials announced today that in Antarctica’s Ross Sea, a fishing boat has caught what can be called the world’s biggest known colossal squid. These animals are heavier than any giant squid, colossal squids have eyes that are as wide as dinner plates and have sharp hooks on some of the suckers. The new ... More About: Caught , Squid , Colossal
Ancient Tree Frog in an Amber Grave!
More articles from this author:2007-02-19 09:50:00 A miner who comes from Mexico’s Chiapas state has made a find of a lifetime?a small tree frog that got preserved in amber which is 25 million years old. A block of amber, or fossilized tree resin, that contained the 0.4-inch (1-centimeter) frog was brought out in 2005 and sold to a private collector. The specimen ... More About: Frog , Grave , Tree , Amber , Ancient 1, 2, 3 |
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