Animals

Stages in chick embryo development One of the greatest miracles of nature is the transformation of the egg into the chick. A chick emerges after a brief three weeks of incubation. The complexity [...]

IN HIS EPIC encyclopedia Natural History, the great Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder wrote of the bonnacon, a sort of bull whose defensive strategy was to hit its foes with blasts of dung “so [...]

The Wisdom of Creation is the Great Teacher Today there are many inventors and design engineers that are looking at the natural world and the creatures that live in it for solutions to complex [...]

Frog spit might be some of the catchiest spit on the planet. That’s according to new research on frog saliva, which shows that the sticky stuff is tailor-made to grab bugs. It helps to [...]

Venus Flytraps – Creepier Than We Imagined! When it comes to digesting its prey, this plant is a calculating killer. If you accidentally get transformed into a fly, and get caught in a [...]

Superb bird-of-paradise description Birds of paradise are famed for their elaborate plumage and fascinating, often bizarre, courtship displays, and the superb bird-of-paradise (Lophorina superba) [...]

The Gaboon Viper (Bitis gabonica) is a venomous viper along the equatorial belt of Africa, East and Central Africa and southeast Africa. In the African  Portuguese-speaking countries, it can be [...]

Amazing Creation – The Golden Orb Spider New discoveries about things that happen in nature come out on a regular basis, and some of them are so incredible that they are hard to believe. [...]

All life on earth needs water for its survival. So the oceans play one of the most important roles for life on earth. Water on Earth is two-third of the Earth’s surface. Due to its depth, sea [...]

Fascinating Cuttlefish The world’s oceans are filled with amazingly complex creatures, perhaps none more so than the cuttlefish. In addition to being able to camouflage itself in a range of [...]