Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in Animal Life | No Comments »
There has been some debate on this, depending on how you define an animal's size. The Bumblebee Bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) is definitely the world's smallest species of bat. It is ... Read more..Friday, November 21st, 2008 Posted in Animal Life | No Comments »
The largest spider in the world is a tarantula called the Goliath Birdeater. An adult can weigh over four ounces (about the size of a large mouse) and has a ... Read more..Sunday, November 16th, 2008 Posted in Biology, Plant Life | 1 Comment »
Mimosa pudica (also known as the "sensitive plant" or "Tickle Me plant") is well known for its rapid leaf movement. In the evening the leaflets will fold together and the ... Read more..Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Animal Life | No Comments »
This is a very generic question, but one that actually gets asked quite frequently. Of course, the short answer is that snakes have a varied diet, depending on factors such ... Read more..Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Biology | No Comments »
This is a bit of a humorous post as this question has made the rounds on the Internet for the last several years. The short answer is: goldfish are egg-layers ... Read more..Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Physics | No Comments »
Some magnets are natural (lodestone and magnetite are naturally occurring), and some magnets are man-made. The magnets made in the laboratory are usually made of a mixture of iron, cobalt, ... Read more..