The sun bear, also known as the honey bear, thrives in the hot and humid lowlands of southeast Asia. From northern Burma and Bangladesh, south and east across Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand, and south to Malaysia and the islands…
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The first primate like creatures evolved by the end of the Mesozoic era around 65 million years ago from the group of mammals known as insectivore, these protoprimates were similar in form to squirrels or tree shrews. Of similar size…
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Mammals are able to live in a variety of habitats due to a number of adaptations. There are characteristics that only mammals share such as hair and mammary glands. The mammal has the ability to control the body temperature with…
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Geological unrest could be considered any period in which there is dramatic change. This includes such long-term shifts as tectonic plate movements, mountains building and crumbling, and short-term and often dramatic geological upheavals such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and climate…
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Most likely you’ve heard of a “flea circus’” but have you ever heard of acrobat ants? They would certainly outdo the fleas in any circus featuring “creepy-crawlies,” as they appear to be able to walk on their hands and they…
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Those who still dispute the existence of biological evolution sometimes use the argument that it is “just a theory”, implying that even scientists don’t agree that evolution occurs. Those employing this argument do not have a clear understanding both of…
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Nematoda means thread like ones, the group was establishted in 1808 as Nematoidea by Karl Rudolphi. In 1837 it was reclassified by Burmeister as belonging to the Nematodes family, it was 1861 that K.M. Diesing renamed them Nematoda. During 1919…
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My family raised a red fox kit at Crater Lake National Park and subsequently set him free when he could fend for himself. No doubt dead after all these years, the experience was not only good, it was also educational….
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Migration has, throughout human prehistory, both spurred and slowed human evolution. Prehistoric humans were hunter-gatherers. Dependent on the local flora for something approaching 70% of their total calories, they hunted for the remaining 30%. Fauna migrate as least as well…
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Darwin’s Island Treasure The Galapagos The key to understanding the Galapagos islands, an archipelago situated about 600 miles off the west coast of Ecuador in the Pacific ocean, lies with its natural history. And as any historian will tell you,…
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