How Do Macaws Know Chemistry?

Having eaten these nutritious but poisonous seeds, macaws fly towards a rocky place. There t ...

An Interesting Creature: The Nautilus

As the special diving tanks in a submarine are filled with water, the vessel becomes heavier ...

How Do Fish Live in Water?

A fish expends a large amount of energy while swimming. This is not because it swims fast fo ...

Evolution: The Most Potent Spell

Never before has any other belief or idea so taken away peoples’ powers of reason, ref ...

The Amazing Creation of Sea Turtles

The beach they arrive at to reproduce has to be the one where they were born. Sometimes sea ...

A System Organised in Its Every Detail

The digestive system where these detailed processes take place starts to function as soon as ...

A Little Conversation with Darwin (Video)

This theory is quite popular in the circles of the religious vs. atheist debates. Atheists s ...

The Symmetry in Wings

Actually, these colors are formed by the amassing of tiny scales clustered one on top of ano ...

Architectural Wonders: Termite Nests

A person who has never seen the huge nests built by blind termites would probably think that ...

The Woodpecker

Nothing happens because the head structure of woodpeckers is ideally created for such a task ...

Water Lilies

Amazon water lilies that grow in the sticky mud covering the bottom of the Amazon River are ...

The Creation of Matter

Electrons and protons of an atom are equal in number, because positively charged protons and ...

The Animal with the Longest Neck: The Giraffe

There is no doubt that the giraffes did not acquire these traits by planning themselves in a ...

False Eyes

Can these extremely convincing eyes be the result of a coincidence? How does the butterfly k ...

The Cambrian Explosion: A Dazzling Variety of Life

Inspired by the original Latin name for Wales, Cambria, Sedgwick named this period the Cambr ...

From Non-Being to Being

The prevailing thought until the early 20th century was that the universe was of infinite si ...

Delicate Balances in Space

The laws of physics that emerged together with the Big Bang have not change at all over a pe ...

Bombardier Beetle

In moments of danger, the insect squirts hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone stored in its bo ...

A Half-Developed Eye Cannot See

The common trait of the eyes and the wings is that they can only function if they are fully ...

Burgess Shale Fauna: Discovery of A Miracle

The bedrock in Burgess Shale consists of schist—a rock consisting of thin strata, or layers. Wh ...