In Genesis 1:21 we read, “And God created great whales”. The Hebrew word is tanniym and means ‘sea monster’. These great monsters of the deep would include a variety of sea creatures, including the whales, which are among some of the largest creatures in the world.
Bone is living tissue and is the hardest tissue in the body. In Job 10:11 we read: “Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews”. Bones are protective like a fence. They provide security to the human frame as well as generating the means to expedite a natural defence against infections from without.
Fish come in all shapes and sizes, some are free swimming, while others rest on the bottom of the sea, some are herbivores and others are carnivores, and some lay eggs while others give live birth and parental care to their young. The total number of living fish species—about 32,000—is greater …
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Like humans, most bony fish experience the world around them using the classic senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. However, fish have an additional sixth sense, something that is more sophisticated than touch, and it is called the lateral line. This line runs around the eyes and gills and extends to the tail along the sides of the fish, generally in the middle. If you look close enough at the fish above, you might be able to make out what looks like a white line—but which are actually pore openings to a canal that form the lateral line.
A recent study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface reports on “A feedback control principle common to several biological and engineered systems”. The researchers, Jonathan Y. Suen and Saket Navlakha, show how harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) use a feedback control algo…
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These extracts are taken from Dr Jonathan Sarfati’s book: By Design – Evidence of Nature’s Intelligent Designer – the God of the Bible.
Spiders
Antonia Kesel at the Institute for Technical Zoology and Bionics in Bremen, and colleagues at the University of Zurich analysed the feet of a ju…
You will consume about two litres of oxygen in the time it takes you to read this article. In fact, humans need up to 2000 litres of oxygen every day. You probably know that all this oxygen in the world is produced by organisms, such as plants and algae that perform photosynthesis. They take carbon …
The other day, walking down a tree-lined street, a couple of scientists were startled by a sudden crash and scramble at their feet. A squirrel had fallen from a tree! It quickly recovered and dashed away, back up the same tree trunk from which it had come. That never—or, almost never—happens. Wh…
In the July-August 2021 issue of The Lampstand we ran an article on the marvellous octopus. In this article we are going to go one stage further and talk about the mimic octopus.
Discovered in 1988 off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, this species ranges from north-east Australia (Lizard Island)…
There are seven types of eagles found in Israel today (four common species and three rare species). They are the White-tailed eagle, the Imperial eagle, the Lesser and Greater spotted eagles, the Steppe eagle, the Booted eagle and Bonelli’s eagle.
In the past, Bonelli’s eagle was the most…
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