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Fauna
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The modern horse, as we know it today, has been around for about 6 million years. The early ancestor of the modern horse has been traced back sixty million years to an animal scientists call Eophippus. The first complete skeleton was found in 1931 in the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming. |
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WeirdCreatures
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Pterosaurs were thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But there have been many sightings of strange creatures resembling them in modern times. |
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WeirdCreatures
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The Mothman sightings began to be reported in 1966. The red-eyed winged creature was dubbed "Mothman" by a newspaper reported, since the "Batman" TV series was at the height of its popularity. Sightings continued and fervor escalated over the following months, coinciding with a bewildering array of strange activity - including precognition, odd prophecies, UFO sightings and encounters with bizarre "Men in Black." It's one of the most puzzling and fascinating periods on record of paranormal activity focused in one geographic area. The creature itself has never been explained. |
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WeirdCreatures
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The weird creature known as the Jersey Devil has been roaming the pine barrens of New Jersey since 1735. Sightings are still regularly reported today. It has been estimated that more than 2,000 witnesses have spotted the strange Jersey Devil creature in recent times. Panic over alleged sightings has sent terror through towns and has even caused schools and factories to temporarily shut down. |
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Fauna
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Most animals can be divided into four basic groups. |
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Fauna
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Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. In general they are multicellular, responsive to their environment, and feed by consuming other organisms or parts of them. |
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Flora
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Here is a table of the numbers of plant species, or flora, found around the world, broken down by country. |
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Newsflash
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Fetus in fetu (or Foetus in foetu) describes an extremely rare abnormality that involves a fetus getting trapped inside of its twin. Usually, both twins die before birth from the strain of sharing a placenta, but worldwide there have been 91 living cases reported after birth.The in fetu twin continues to survive as a parasite inside its twin, even past birth, by forming an umbilical cord-like structure that leeches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene. The parasitic fetus is almost always anencephalic (without a brain) and lacks internal organs, and as such is unable to survive on its own, though it may have almost human (albeit underdeveloped and bizarre) features such as limbs, digits, hair, nails and teeth. |
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Seahorses reproduce in an unusual way: the male becomes pregnant. Pipefishes and seahorses are the only species in the animal kingdom to which the term "male pregnancy" has been applied.
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Newsflash
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A significant population of toads in Germany and Denmark were exploding in April 2005 in an act described as a self-defence mechanism that failed, as it consisted of puffing up to look bigger while under attack by crows.
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Newsflash
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Occurrences have been reported from many countries throughout history. The animals most likely to drop from the sky in a rainfall are fish and frogs, with birds a close third. Most recent occurrences include the rain of frogs and toads in Serbia (2005) and London (1998), and rains of fish in India (2006) and Wales (2004).
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The Moon's orbit is getting larger, at a rate of about 3.8 centimeters per year. It is expected that in 15 billion years, the orbit will stabilize at 1.6 times its present size, and the Earth day will be 55 days long - equal to the time it will take the Moon to orbit the Earth.
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Newsflash
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Navel lint consists primarily of stray fibres from one's clothing, mixed with some dead skin cells and strands of body hair.Contrary to expectations, navel lint appears to migrate upwards from underwear rather than downwards from shirts or tops. The migration process is the result of the frictional drag of body hair on underwear, which drags stray fibres up into the navel.
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Sunday, 14 March 2010
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Weird Science Facts |
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Occurrences have been reported from many countries throughout history. The animals most likely to drop from the sky in a rainfall are fish and frogs, with birds a close third. Most recent occurrences include the rain of frogs and toads in Serbia (2005) and London (1998), and rains of fish in India (2006) and Wales (2004).
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