The spooky-looking amphibian is less scary than it appears to be. But it might already be endangered, as deforestation rates continue to go up.
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Swarm of earthquakes strike near California-Nevada border
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WOW! Viewer video show boulders in the road on US-395 near Coleville following a swarm of earthquakes — Aftershocks are still being felt.
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A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Farmington on Thursday afternoon.
‘Worst day ever’ in pigeon racing history as 5,000 birds vanish
Bird handlers were devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK.
They flew the coop — and vanished into thin air.
Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK.
“We’ve seen one of the very worst ever racing days in our history,” pigeon hobbyist Richard Sayers wrote in a Facebook post chronicling the feathery fiasco, which occurred Saturday after 9000 racing birds took off from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on a journey to the northeast. And while the 170-mile round-trip flight should’ve only taken three hours, over half the avian competitors were still unaccounted for as of last night.
Insects use lubricants to minimize friction and wear in leg joints
Is beetlejuice stronger than teflon?
A protein-based lubricating substance is discovered in the femoro-tibial joint of the darkling beetle Zophobas morio (Insecta). The substance extrudes to the contacting areas within the joint and appears in a form of filiform flows and short cylindrical fragments. The extruded lubricating substance effectively reduces the coefficient of sliding friction to the value of 0.13 in the tribosystem glass/lubricant/glass. This value is significa… See More.
A possible new branch in human family tree
The evolutionary history of humans has just become more complicated, thanks to a new analysis in China and an excavation in Israel. Either we have just discovered new species of our ancestors or we have unearthed fossils of a known species of which we have had little physical evidence so far.
Chinese researchers will have much to contribute as palaeoanthropologists study the ‘Dragon Man’, who may have predated Neanderthals.
Big Oil Knows Hydrogen Is Dead End, But Uses It To Delay Electrification
Reasonable minds may differ on the question of whether hydrogen fuel cells have a place in the clean-energy future. However, it’s a fact that the fossil fuel giants have been heavily hyping hydrogen, and it’s not hard to see why, as the vast majority of hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas.
Oil companies are working hard to appear “green,” but their true efforts are quite clear. Some will do whatever it takes to slow the pace of electrification.
The Scandinavian way to zero-carbon construction
Cities like Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen are working to clean up one of the world’s most high-emission industries.