There is a breathtaking diversity of animals on Planet Earth and while many species have been identified, there are still a great number that remain undiscovered. Scientific exploration in some of the remoter regions of the world discovers a number…
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If you’ve asked yourself “what are parasites”, you’re not alone. Most people do not know what they are or how they can contract them. Human parasites live off a host, be it human or animal. They are very common but…
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Did you know that bees are the only animal, apart from humans, which are known to share complex symbolic communication? To date, much scientific research has been carried out on social colonies of bees, including honey and stingless varieties of…
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All angiosperms are tracheophytes, but not all tracheophytes are angiosperms. We group plant species together in a multitude of ways based on specific physiological (function) and/or anatomical (form) characteristics; tracheophytes and angiosperms are names given to two of those groupings….
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Mosquito is the name of a blood-sucking fly, a member of the insect family Culicidae and the order Diptera (true flies) and it is distinguished from most other flies by the comparatively long proboscis which projects from the head, a…
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Not all plants are flowering ones although these by far are the largest group. Within flowering plants, there are two disctinct divisions, the gymnosperms and the angiosperms. The names mean naked seed and enclosed seed respectively. Gymnosperms produce seeds which…
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Spiders are not insects. They belong to the Arachnid family. There are more than 30,000 species of spiders. They have two main body parts: The cephalothorax, which is a fused head and thorax, and an abdomen. They have eight legs…
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Ants consume the white parts of the seeds of bleeding heart plants and disperse them to areas where the plants grow. Without the ants, the seeds would not germinate. Ants are crucial to the life of the bleeding heat plants….
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The silver birch (Betula Pendula) is a very attractive tree that has white peeling bark. This tree has been a true inspiration to many people like artists, poets and writers. This is a broad-leaf tree and it is a deciduous….
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The Lebanon cedar is the national tree of Lebanon, was known to antiquity, and is frequently mentioned in the Bible. It is a distinctive and magnificent tree. These evergreen coniferous trees can grow to a height of 40 metres (or…
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