Fish swim in schools because they were told to do so by their mothers for their own safety. It’s very similar to human teenagers walking in an amusement park together, when a Mother says, “Stay with the group when you…
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Whales are acoustic mammals. They use their hearing to follow migratory routes, find food, care for their young and locate one another. The process is called echolocation. Whale songs have long been studied to try and determine just how valuable…
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There’s safety in numbers. Children form close groups of friends that are nearly inseparable, so they never can be singled out for bullying. Buffalo stay close for higher odds of survival. If a predator were to approach them, they’d be…
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With eight poisonous tentacles, the octopus obviously reproduces with great care! The female has to choose particularly wisely too, because she dies when her young hatch, so her first choice of mate is also her last. The male does not…
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Killer whales, otherwise known as Orcas, are actually the largest members of the dolphin family, and as such are not whales at all. They are the great hunters of the ocean, often being compared to wolves for their hunting ability…
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The Elephant bird, Latin name Aepyornis Maximus, was the largest bird ever to have lived upon the Earth. As a species it had existed for over 60 million years and was found only on the island of Madagascar. It only…
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Acceptable scientific theory has determined that life began in the oceans and, through millions of years of evolutionary transitions, sea creatures began to develop limbs instead of fins and flippers, and crawled out of the oceans to become the first…
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Studying the migratory patterns of the Gray Whale (Eschrichtus robustus) is a fascinating journey. The reasoning and nature of the patterns they repeat throughout their life span is as amazing as it is predictable. The Gray Whale is a creature…
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Name: Elephant Bird Scientific Name: Aepyomithiadao Common Names: Aepyornis, Vavompatra, Varon patra Historical Period: Pleistocene Average Height: 10 ft Average Weight: 1,000 lbs Diet: Herbivore Eggs: Average circumference of 3 ft, average length of 13 inches long. It is estimated…
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The more we learn about octopi (that’s the plural for octopus), the more intelligent we discover they are. Intelligence seems to be inherent in all 300 or so species of octopus and not just limited to a few varieties. Octopi…
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