A pinnacle of wartime technology, the HMS Trident was supposed to patrol the Atlantic, doing submarine things. Maybe sink a ship or two, enforce the blockade, and smuggle a reindeer from Russia to England. If that last part sounds more like the plot of a Nickelodeon cartoon than a World War II mission, then you clearly don’t…
A Texan man who tried to shoot an Armadillo shells has found himself in hospital after his bullet bounced off the animal and hit him in the face. Police in Cass County said the unnamed man spotted the small animal “on his property” at around 3am local time on Thursday and decided to kill it….
The Giant Pacific Octopuses for example has 3 hearts, 9 brains, and blue blood. It sounds like something straight out of a fantasy novel, but alas our own world is magical enough to have creatures as big as 600 pounds capable of squeezing through a coin-sized hole. When it comes to reproduction, octopuses once again…
Polar bears are top carnivores that bioaccumulate the vitamin A produced by marine algae lower down the food chain. Because vitamin A isn’t water-soluble, it can’t be easily flushed from the body and is stored in the liver instead. Bears and seals have generally high levels of vitamin A in their livers but polar bears…
To discover this, the scientists out of Germany studied 51 dogs in different conditions to see how they would react when people intentionally or unintentionally refrained from giving them a treat. Also known as unable versus unwilling paradigm. The conditions included dogs and people separated by a clear barrier as the human held a treat….
You heard right, compadre. Parthenogenesis — reproduction without benefit of sex — occurs spontaneously in a handful of species, most of them fairly simple but some surprisingly complex. The turkey is the foremost example of the latter group, with the virgin birth rate in some breeds approaching 40 percent. Parthenogenesis also occurs in some lizards. The…
Researchers studying moray eels have discovered that these serpentine fishes have a freaky second set of razor-toothed jaws that help the eels reel in prey, even on land, according to new study published earlier in the Journal of Experimental Biology. The oral jaws and the pharyngeal jaws. Nearly all fish feed underwater, and most predatory…
The female kangaroo has three vaginas, two uteruses and carries her young in a pouch. The male kangaroo has a long, pointed penis located behind his scrotum. The male kangaroo doesn’t have a pouch or nipples.Kangaroos do not have separate openings for intestinal, urinary, and genital tracts. Koalas, wombats and Tasmanian devils all share the three-vagina structure. The…
There are two recognized subspecies of tiger: the continental (Panthera tigris tigris) and the Sunda (Panthera tigris sondaica). The largest of all the Asian big cats, tigers rely primarily on sight and sound rather than smell for hunting. They typically hunt alone and stalk prey. A tiger can consume more than 80 pounds of meat…
In the new paper, the researchers studied poison frogs in the genus Phyllobates that employ a toxin called batrachotoxin, which works by disrupting the transport of sodium ions in and out of cells — one of the most important physiological functions in the body. When your brain sends signals to the body, it sends them…
