The Best Stuff on Earth?!
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Many of the most treasured, costly and gourmet luxuries on earth hardly seem promising when encountered in nature rather than on a fine china plate or in a crystal flask. It makes you wonder what possessed the first person who came upon the following 5 items to be inspired to even touch, let alone eat them!
Ambergris
What it is: a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull [...]
Pooped Out?
Friday, October 31st, 2008Kopi Luwak (Copy looWOCK) is a rare and highy sought after Indonesion coffee that gives the phrase “pass the coffee” a whole new meaning!
This very special coffee begins life like any other grown in this part of the world (the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago) but instead of being harvested [...]
Bird Eating Spider
Friday, October 24th, 2008This October 23rd news story from the Cairns Post confirms that there are indeed some hairy, scary and HUGE Australian spiders!
This amazing image of a mammoth spider devouring a bird was taken in the backyard of a property near Cairns.
The image, which is being cirulated via email worldwide, is real, according to wildlife experts, The Cairns Post [...]
La Cucaracha, La Cucaracha
Wednesday, October 22nd, 200810 interesting facts about the humble yet resilient cockroach…
Like Humans, cockroaches are omnivores - they will eat anything organic including but not limited to dead things, grease, crumbs, discarded human skin cells, their own eggs and glue off the back of postage stamps and book bindings (glue is usually derived from animal protein).
Cockroaches can truly [...]
Egg-Citing Facts
Friday, October 17th, 2008Eggs are truly a wonder of nature. It takes just a day for a chicken to produce one of these perfectly packaged little miracles! Did you ever wonder how the shell gets on the egg? I sure did. Here’s what Sciencejunkies found out…
First, some common questions and answers about chicken egg production.
1. How often do [...]
The Buzz on Honey
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008This post answers some common questions concerning the relationship between bees, pollen, nectar and honey.
1. Why do bees make honey?
Answer: Honeybees are special in that unlike wasps and bumblebees, bee colonies do not hibernate but stay active within their hive throughout winter. The energy required to sustain this activity requires a lot of food energy. Honey [...]
It’s Time for a Change
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Several species of cephalopods–the group of animals that includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish–are skilled in the art of color change, which can be used for camouflage or to startle and warn potential predators in their undersea realm.
Click below to see a clip of a cuttlefish changing his coloration to match the seabed below.
How do they [...]
Dangerous Neighborhood
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008The city of Neuquén in southwestern Argentina must have been a rather terrifying place to live 90 million years ago. Within an hour’s drive of Neuquén lie three important paleontologic sites, each home to record-breaking finds including Argentinosaurus huinculensis, considered the world’s largest dinosaur (coming in at 130 feet long and 60 feet tall), Giganotosaurus [...]
Insectile Thermometers?
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Kooky as it seems, there really is some truth to the fact that one can pretty accurately determine the outdoor temperature by counting cricket chirps!
Although a variety of “cricket chirp thermometer” formulas exist, it seems that the Farmer’s Almanac has perfected the most accurate and reliable.
To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit, count number of [...]
Animal Quiz & Trivia
Sunday, May 11th, 20081. In South Africa they race me instead of horses or dogs. I like to swallow shiny things - in fact, one of my species was found to have swallowed 53 diamonds! I am used to heard sheep in South Africa. What animal am I?
2. There are prehistoric animals that have survived to the present [...]
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