If giraffes and zebras could mate, their offspring would look like an Okapi. This strange looking creature has striped legs like a zebra but the face of a giraffe. Its neck is much shorter than a giraffe, but like its cousin, it has an extremely long tongue, which can reach lengths of up to 12
For centuries, westerners heard tales of a giant ape living in the jungles of Africa. The creature was called “enge-ena” by locals, and was rumored to be larger and stronger than a man. But it wasn’t until 1847, when an American missionary managed to procure a skull and some bones of the creature that science
Giant squids can grow up to 43 feet in length and may have been one of the inspirations behind the kraken, a many-armed sea monster in Norwegian myth. In September 2005, Japanese researchers baited and filmed a live specimen in its natural ocean habitat for the first time. The creature struggled for four hours before finally
In 1938, a South African museum curator was sorting through the local fishermen’s daily catch and looking for unusual creatures when she spotted a coelacanth, an ancient fish thought to be extinct for millions of years and known only through fossils. As with many cryptids, the coelacanth was well known to local inhabitants, who called the
Also known as the Tasmanian tiger or wolf, the thylacine was a large meat-eating marsupial that lived in Australia. It had a long, stiff tail, dark stripes on its back and rump, and a pouch similar to other marsupials like the koala and kangaroo. It was driven to extinction by human activity and the introduction
An Update on the Amazing T. Rex Bone Discovery Announced a Year ago This Month March 6, 2006 http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2006/03/06/scrambling-continues A year ago this month, the journal Science reported that a team led by Dr. Schweitzer found flexible connective tissue and branching blood vessels, as well as intact cells (that have the appearance of red blood
Sperm Penetration Tests http://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/sperm-penetration-tests Sperm penetration tests check to see whether a man’s sperm can move through cervical mucus and the fallopian tubes to join with (fertilize) an egg. This test is usually done when a couple is having trouble becoming pregnant (infertility). There are different sperm penetration tests. The sperm mucus penetration test checks
Got Silk? http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/spidersilk.jsp http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16554357 Researchers are spinning spider silk from goats’ milk Spider silk and goat milk–what could possibly be the connection? Let’s start with the spiders. Humans love spider webs, but aren’t so crazy about their builders. While spiders make some people flinch, there’s no escaping the appreciation for their masterful web construction. “There’s
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/06/02/1644154.htm Back in 1997, a rather bizarre photograph suddenly became very famous. It showed a totally hairless mouse, with what appeared to be a human ear growing out of its back. That photograph prompted a wave of protest against genetic engineering, which continues today. But there was absolutely no genetic engineering involved in getting that
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2183200.stm By Helen Briggs BBC News Online science reporterMonday, 12 August, 2002, 09:04 GMT 10:04 UK Cloned calves that produce human antibodies in their blood have been born in the United States. The four cows have extra DNA which contains the genes for the part of the human immune system that makes disease-fighting antibodies. Scientists believe
