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Why does the most poisonous plant in the world cause severe pain?
The pain caused to humans by the Gimpi-gympie plant can drive him crazy Many people consider Australia a very dangerous place full of poisonous creatures. And this is a perfectly correct idea, because this continent literally want...
Why do mosquitoes drink blood?
Mosquitoes drink blood because they need it vitally In spring, summer and autumn we are annoyed with mosquitoes. Probably all of us are infuriated by their annoying food at night, bites and caused by itching on the skin. Let's tel...
How well can a ship that sank 400 years ago survive?
Remains of a ship at the bottom of the Baltic Sea Right now, while you're reading this article, somewhere in the depths of the seas and oceans lie sunken ships. Some of them are real "time capsules" because inside their cabins and...
What determines the size of raindrops?
Why the rain drops are not the same? Scientists already know the answer Once in the rain and hiding in a secluded place, you probably noticed that the raindrops are very different in size. Generally, the cloud drops have the same ...
The most dangerous ants: where they live, and how painful bite?
In the world there are 90 species of ants-bulldogs, but the most dangerous of them is the Myrmecia pilosula the Nature of Australia is very diverse and brings to the people a great danger. It was at this point our planet is inhabi...
the Most famous of the Egyptian pyramids is the pyramid of Cheops the Egyptian pyramids are considered one of the most mysterious structures in the world. At the moment the scientific community is aware of 140 structures, most of ...
Looks like the toothy animal in the world?
Already guess what keeps this man? At the moment Earth is the only known to the scientific community of the planet on which life exists. Perhaps it is good that at the moment, mankind is not able to detect alien creatures, because...
The most famous graveyard of ships in the world
Sunken "Titanic" was found only many years after the disaster. For many centuries the world ocean was one of the main ways of communication of civilizations living on different continents. The seas and oceans sailed millions of sh...
Museum of antiquity: what can you find at the bottom of lake Titicaca?
Such items can be found at the bottom of lake Titicaca. But what is it? the entire history of mankind on our planet lived a lot of different civilizations. Representatives of each of them had his own vision of the origin of the Ea...
In Africa, elephants continue to die. Scientists already suspect why
In Africa, elephants are dying EN masse of the species Loxodonta africana In July 2020 in the foreign media there have been disturbing reports that in the territory of the southern African country of Botswana began to die EN masse...
How and most importantly why: two fish can become one
monkfish is one of the most unusual and mysterious fish in the world Lucky for us humans to find a mate, just need the courage to go outside or use the app for Dating. Now imagine how hard it is to have fish that live at depths of...
Like a little bird builds the biggest nest up to 8 meters?
the biggest nests birds, known as social weavers to survive, all living organisms need to work. People go to work to have a roof over your head and also in order not to die of hunger and boredom. Ants build multi-level ant, rodent...
As the smallest fish in the world with temporarily become giants?
After a year of these tiny creatures grow more giants In 2017, while research on the coast of Australia, scientists found a tiny fish a few millimeters. Each individual can be fit on the pillow of one finger, so the detection of s...
As the smallest fish in the world will eventually become become giants?
After a year of these tiny creatures grow more giants In 2017, while research on the coast of Australia, scientists found a tiny fish a few millimeters. Each individual can be fit on the pillow of one finger, so the detection of s...
The experiment showed how useful chills and "gooseflesh"
Scientists continue to study the phenomenon of "goose skin" and commit When you feel cold, fear or excitement, the hair on your skin stand on end. In people, this phenomenon is called gooseflesh or goosebumps, as if to say, scient...
What's the trick uses the worst turtle to catch prey?
Yeah, friendly, these turtles can not be called. At the moment scientists know about the existence of the 328 species of turtles that differ in habitat, body size, lifestyle and many other features. The leatherback turtle (Dermoch...
5 of the most unusual plants on Earth
In 2016, the staff of the Royal Botanic gardens (UK) counted the number of plants worldwide. In their opinion, at that time, scientists were aware of about 390 900 species of trees, shrubs and all that. Every year they become more...
Mystery holes: scientists will study the mysterious dips in the sea
"the Blue hole" it is possible to calculate the most mysterious objects of the Earth From the height of bird flight, the Ground looks perfectly round but in fact, it has a lot of different mountains and valleys. Scientists have pr...
Why butterflies love to drink the tears of turtles?
Butterflies EN masse sit on the heads of turtles, but why? the Amazon rainforest located in Brazil, can be seen a very unusual picture of a butterfly sit on the heads of turtles and drink their tears. Very often the insects feed o...
These birds can fly for hours, never moving his wings
males condors head adorned with fleshy dark red comb, and the skin on the neck forms wrinkles In South America to meet some of the most large and heavy birds on our planet — Andean condors (Vultur gryphus). These black and white c...