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95Cloning Extinct Animals - Can Extinct Species be Brought Back to Life Using Cloning
It may now be possible to bring back extinct species by cloning dead specimens, and growing them in the wombs of similar or related animals. Not long ago, the idea of cloning extinct animals sounded like...
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89Why Are You Intelligent?
This HUB was requested Hubber -Pretty Dark Horse. Why are you intelligent? The answer to this question is simple- I don't bury my natural instinct for knowledge nor for understanding. I am always learning...
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88The Cheetah Fastest Land Animal in the World
It is a creature unique among species, and the absolute undisputed champion of its precise and awe-inspiring craft: Speed.
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93Is Yawning Contagious?
According to research performed at New York State University, between 40 and 60 percent of the population seems to find yawning contagious. Researchers from the State University of New York in Albany...
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87Charles Darwin and Evolution: Genetic Science uproots the Tree of Life
The idea of the 'Tree of Life' was central to Darwin's ideas of evolution. For Darwin. evolution was linear but evidence accumulating from the emerging fields of evoltionary gentics paint a very different picture. Instead of a Tree of Life the new evidence suggests a web of life.
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86The Strangest Cambrian Creatures Ever Discovered
The Cambrian Period (542-488 million years ago) is known as being the first burst in the diversity of animal life. It wasn't that animals didn't exist before this time, as they did, that made this period...
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83Courtship Strategies (What We Can Learn From Animals)
When Johnny comes a-courting, what does he do? - wears his best shirt, puts on cosmetics, sprays perfume, sings love songs, writes poems, gives gifts and creates other ways just to win the heart(s) of the...
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83Is 20/20 eyesight perfect? Random eyeball facts
What causes redeye? Eyes appear as red dots in photos sometimes because the flash from cameras reflect off of the layer of blood vessels between the reteina and sclera (whites) of the eyes. This usually occurs...
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85How many hairs are on your head? Random facts about skin, hair, and nails
How much skin does the average person have? On average, the human body is covered with around 20 square feet of skin, which weighs about 6 pounds. Do identical twins have the same fingerprints? No, even...
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85Archaic Arthropods: The Centipedes and Millipedes.
Millipedes are even popular pets! But not centipedes. As we enter the fossil record, that curious tale of artefacts “dug up” and showing how plant and animal species have evolved, we can see the...
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