The human body is an engineering marvel – an amalgam of interlocking chemical and engineering solutions – with dozens of diverse, interdependent control systems driving hundreds of functional subsystems, composed of tens of thousands of specialised parts, and comprised of approximately 37 trilli…
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Chameleons are fascinating creatures with amazing characteristics. Their feet have opposable toes, giving them a tong-like appearance, to firmly grip branches. Their eyes move independently of each other to provide 360 degree vision. Their skin changes colour via the active tuning of a latti…
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“O Yahweh, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts” (Psa 104:24-25).
Most of us shudder when we see a bat launch itself into the evenin…
The Saharan silver ant is a unique creature that is able to survive the scorching midday heat in the Saharan and Sinai deserts. It emerges at the same time each day for just a few minutes, when no other desert creature can stand the heat, and goes foraging for insects that have succumbed to the dese…
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The Bogong moth is an Australian grey-brown moth that migrates from Queensland to the Australian Alps just outside of Canberra. the word is derived from the Aboriginal word for ‘mountain’. Hence it is the mountain moth and before European settlement it was a source of nutrition for Aborigines as…
An article appeared in Volume 25, Issue 3 of Current Biology (pp 392–396, Feb 2015) describing the amazing feat that sea turtles accomplish in migrating across entire ocean basins before returning to nest in the same coastal area where they hatched. The article states, “How sea turtles accomplis…
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As we crack open our boiled egg on Sunday morning we may forget that the egg was meant, in the first place, to be the home of a baby chicken. Inside that smooth shell was a complete food supply and life-support system. In three weeks it would take an embryo all the way from its first living cell, …
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