Which mammals have no teeth?
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- September 21, 2012
Have you ever wondered why you have to keep very quiet if you want to catch a fish? They don’t have any ears! Actually, fish can hear quite well. Instead of ears opening to the outside of their heads like we have, fish have ear bones called otoliths inside their heads. When a sound wave
READ MOREFor many years, people have wondered what causes people to be left-handed. Several bizarre theories have come and gone over the centuries, from the medieval notion that left-handed people were posessed by demons to more modern day theories that a left-handed person is one-half of a set of twins, and the second twin was reabsorbed
READ MOREIt’s actually a myth that cats always land on their feet; some of them can be downright clumsy. But it is true that cats are very good at landing on their feet, and through the use of slow motion cameras, scientists have been able to figure out why. The key to a cat’s amazing balance
READ MOREIf you’ve ever seen pictures of a coral reef, you might have seen something that looks like a colourful underwater forest. Some corals are tall and branching, some are small and round, but each coral isn’t just one living thing – it’s a home to thousands of them! Corals are related to anemones and jellyfish,
READ MORECoral reefs are incredibly complicated ecosystems. Even though coral reefs take up less than 1% of the ocean, and yet they contain over a quarter of life in the ocean! They are so many species living in coral reefs that they have earned the name “rainforests of the sea.” One important component of many coral
READ MOREIn March of 2003, police raced to the home of a gardener in Germany who reported gunshots coming from his garden. When they arrived, the police also heard the cracking shots and took cover. However, they soon discovered that the shots weren’t coming from a lone gunman – they were coming from the gardener’s wisteria
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