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- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- May 21, 2015
In 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
READ MOREImagine walking up to the biggest flower in the world and taking a big, long, sniff. You might think it would smell lovely, but the truth is that the biggest flower in the world is also the stinkiest! The Rafflesia flower is huge; it can get over a metre wide and weigh up to 10
READ MORETake a look at your eyes in a mirror. What do you see? Humans have a white part of the eye, a coloured iris, and a dark pupil in the centre. The pupil is actually a hole in your eye that lets light in so that you can see. But in Central and South America,
READ MOREUp in the arctic, it gets extremely cold, so the animals that live there have to have adaptations that will let them survive the wicked temperatures. Some have thick fur or waterproof feathers, and some, like the walrus, have very thick skin. Walruses are massive animals; a fully grown male weighs up to 3000 pounds!
READ MOREImagine that you walk into a room and approach a sign that says “experiment here”. A nice young man hands you a form to fill out, and bends down behind the counter to put it away. A completely different man, with a different voice, different hair, and different clothes stands up, hands you another form,
READ MOREIf you cut yourself (or spear a fish) underwater, the cut bleeds a bright emerald green. But as you draw closer to the surface, the blood turns brown, then pink, and finally red at the surface. Why does it change colour? In fact, the blood doesn’t change colour at all. What changes is the light
READ MOREEveryone knows that all the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, right? Wrong! The truth is, dinosaurs are alive and well today, and living in disguise – right in your own backyard. How is this possible? It’s possible because living things change over very long periods of time. Think about your own family. You
READ MOREIt’s fairly certain that the mythical unicorns is just a legend, but there are a few animals on the planet that have actually been mistaken for one! The narwhal is an arctic whale with an amazing tooth – it grows out through the whale’s upper lip and sticks out in front like a 3 metre
READ MOREThere are over 1000 different kinds of bats in the world. Most of them are insect eaters. Some eat fruit, some drink nectar from flowers, and a few eat small animals like mice. Out of all those bats, there are only three species that actually feed on blood! All three kinds of vampire bats live
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