If you're in a vast expanse of desert, unless you can find water straight away, you'll be lucky to meet a camel. And it's not just the traditional image of the 'desert boat' that makes this animal so interesting - as a herbivore, they are almost never known to have natural predators in nature.
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Biology
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Biology
What Exactly Have Scientists Discovered And Why Are They So Convinced That Octopuses May Not Be Earth's Creatures?
Since the discovery of the first exoplanet in the 1990s, scientists have found more than 4,000 exoplanets, some like the giant gas planets of our solar system, and others like earth-like planets. Some exoplanets may have very harsh environments, perhaps as hot as venus or mercury, or as extremely cold as other planets. Of course there are also exoplanets that may have relatively suitable temperatures, may be located in the habitable zone of a star system, are a potentially habitable planet, and may even be a living planet.
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Biology
Turning Defense Into Offense! In The Future, Genetically Modified Crops May Learn To Catch Their Own Bugs
Scientists have applied genetic analysis tools to study insectivorous plants. The study depicted the dynamics of calcium molecules in the leaves of carnivorous plants when insect prey landed on the leaves and were captured by sticky secretions.
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Biology
Summer Insects Speak Ice - Why Insects Do Not Freeze Into Popsicle Sticks In -50°c In The North And South Poles?
In the world of insects, a variety of successful strategies have been developed to avoid dying from the cold
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Biology
Thousands Of Large Birds Live In India's Largest Rubbish Dump, So Why Do Locals Prefer To Starve Rather Than Eat Them?
In addition to the nearby residents, the dump has become a "paradise for animals", and the most abundant animal living here is our protagonist today - a larger than human bird bald stork
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Biology
Turned Into Amber During Mating And Still Surrounded By Spectators 41 Million Years Later, There Is Nothing More Embarrassing In The World
In the process of forming amber resin drops, sometimes some unlucky insects or other small animals are imprisoned in them, freezing their lives in this moment.
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Biology
15 Times More Poisonous Than a Rattlesnake! Live Poisonous Spider Black Widow Intercepted By Customs: Bites Can Be Fatal
Species invasions are actually a very common occurrence on a global scale. Although there are countless species of organisms on the planet, these are distributed all over the world, with some species being endemic to certain areas and not present in others, and others having a relatively wide distribution. When some species appear in places where they would not have previously existed, this is when the species may become invasive.
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Biology
The Dark King Of Creatures: The Sea Otter's Harmless Appearance Hides a Terrifying Breeding Process
The sea otter is a very cute looking animal that is known to be a professional in being cute, and there are various expressions of it circulating on the internet for internet users to love. Sea otters are not only cute in appearance, but also in their activities such as eating, swimming and sleeping, which all reflect their cute side. In 2013, it was ranked fifth on the list of the world's cutest species.
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When we humans feel very tired, we often say that we can fall asleep standing up, but this is just a description. In reality, it is impossible for humans to sleep standing up, but there are many animals in nature that have this such a skill that humans do not have, for example, horses can sleep standing up effortlessly.
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Poaching. As long as the tiger is always around a poaching problem, because since ancient times, the idea that the tiger is a treasure has been deeply rooted