A fisherman from the US state of Maine caught an unusual specimen in his catch recently: a two-toned lobster, half the normal mottled green colour, and the other half the bright red colour that lobsters normally turn when they have already been cooked.
The lobster has been donated to the Mount Desert Oceanarium. Staff say that […]
Watch as an octopus completely disappears using its amazing camouflage: Invisible Octopus.
Read about how the octopus uses camouflage as defense: The Master of Camouflage - Australian Cephalopod Research
Find out more about the octopus in general: Octopus - Wikipedia.
Researchers studying a mass dodo grave found in Mauritius suspect that a natural disaster - perhaps a cyclone or flood - may have contributed to the bird’s extinction as well as the arrival of humans on the island.
Natural disaster implicated in dodo extinction - ABC News
School age kids these days are too young to remember Professor Julius Sumner Miller, the physicist who hosted a children’s TV series on the ABC between 1963 and 1986. But ask your parents or older brothers and sisters “why is it so?” and chances are they will remember the quirky professor who used that catchphrase.
Now, […]
The extraordinary Mimosa plant reacts with amazing speed to touch or heat stimulus, furling up its leaves to protect itself in literally seconds.
The capability is known as thigmonasty (touch-induced movement). The videos online at the University of Indiana demonstrate the phenomenon.
Mimosa plant - slow reaction
Mimosa plant - faster reaction
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