Caves are perhaps one of the most unexplored and inhospitable environments found on Earth. Despite this apparent inaccessibility, however, explorers and adventurers continue to seek and find entirely new subterranean worlds around the world. Some of the most fascinating caves we know of are also unique, thriving ecosystems, housing a number of species with adaptations […]
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Fear of spiders is one of the most common fears among humans. Some estimates suggest anywhere between 3% and 15% of the population suffer some form of arachnophobia. Unfortunately for those people there are about 45,000 known species of spider in the world and their density sits at around 570,000 spiders per acre. That would […]
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Advances in bio-engineering have made it theoretically possible to do just about anything to plants. In fact, many of the plants we have today have already been modified beyond all recognition from what they used to be. Carrots were originally white, scrawny roots; peaches were salty and cherry-sized; watermelons were small and bitter; and eggplants […]
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Climate change, human activity, and other environmental factors are causing some of the world’s most beautiful natural tourist destinations to disappear at an alarming rate. From coral reefs to glaciers to pristine islands, many of these places are also unique natural habitats, often sustaining endemic forms of life not found anywhere else on Earth. 10. […]
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Water, water, everywhere, about which we rarely think. For a substance that is integral to life as we know it, most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about our water until something happens to it, as was the case in Flint, Michigan, Jackson, Mississippi, Puerto Rico and numerous First Nations reserves in […]
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Evolution is a remarkable process. Any life form from lowly sponges to massive whales can show evidence of how the process of adaptation has worked to its benefit over many long generations. Sometimes an adaptation works so well it becomes a defining characteristic of every branch of that life form’s family tree. Other times they […]
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Nearly every ancient polytheistic culture had gods of the weather. Most of us are aware of Thor, the god of thunder, but there were gods of the wind and rain and lightning and more throughout North and South America, Africa and Asia. Weather has always fascinated and confused mankind. And even today, when we can […]
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It could be argued that the scale of the universe is such that our minds will never be able to comprehend it. In fact, it seems very likely that even things here on earth are far beyond what our minds could imagine at the best of times. That’s one of the reasons people will refer […]
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