New Tadpole Disease Threatens Frogs Worldwide

Posted on 11/08/2015 by affam

According to British scientists the frog population of the world may be at risk. A new highly infectious parasitic disease has been found in tadpoles. More than half of the frogs’ population in the...

Brazilian Frogs are More Venomous than Snakes

Posted on 07/08/2015 by sumayah

A poison dart frog is not going to be on anyone’s menu. But did you know that this sort of frog is unapproachable too. That is because these venomous creatures can use the bony spines in their faces...

T.Rex had Serrated Teeth to Tear Away at its Prey

Posted on 29/07/2015 by sumayah

The T.Rex, and the rest if its cousin therapods, were terrible lizards alright. They preyed upon various herbivores thanks to their teeth structure. The teeth were singular in their serrations. This...

Four-Legged Snake Fossil Hints Burrowing Ancestors

Posted on 24/07/2015 by sumayah

An ancient snake shows the presence of four legs in its bodily repertoire. This is a clue that suggests that snakes evolved from burrowing animals rather than sea creatures.Unearthed from Brazil’s...

Feathered Dinosaur Discovered related to Jurassic World’s Velociraptor

Posted on 16/07/2015 by i4u

Suddenly dinosaurs have feathers. This is a rather new thing. Today the University of Edinburgh announced that a new feathered dinosaur has been discovered. The newly identified species of...

New Dinosaur Found with Horns

Posted on 09/07/2015 by sumayah

The dinosaur family tree from which the horned types which include the Triceratops descended has a new member which has just been discovered. It existed in the Cretaceous Period, some 79 million...

Wyoming already had Jesus Christ Lizards 48 million Years ago

Posted on 02/07/2015 by i4u

The so called Jesus Christ Lizards are able to walk on water. Walking is the wrong word, they run over water as you can see in the National Geographic video below. Now a scientist discovered a fossil...

Hellboy Dinosaur Discovered

Posted on 05/06/2015 by i4u

About 10 years ago, Peter Hews stumbled across some bones sticking out of a cliff along the Oldman River in southeastern Alberta, Canada. Now, scientists found out that those bones belonged to a...

Prince Harry’s Royal 8-Day Visit to New Zealand

Posted on 17/05/2015 by Jessica Hannan

Prince Harry's first visit to New Zealand's been a huge success, including a Maori welcome.On Tuesday, May 12, Harry had an unexpected reunion, according to The Telegraph. The 30-year-old prince met...

Scientists Discover Oldest Relatives of Birds

Posted on 06/05/2015 by sumayah

Two fossils of age old extinct relatives of present day birds have reshuffled our knowledge of the species known as Aves. Although there are older species whose fossils have been unearthed in China,...

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