LH - NATURE

The Manatee: An Endangered Water Doofus

On February 22, 2015 by Louis Falasha

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Adopting endangered animals is well fun. It’s an action that’s totally overlooked when you’re a kid at Sea World and your nan has just bought you some leaflets and a soft toy version...

Carcross Desert: The Smallest Desert In The World

On February 20, 2015 by Lazer Horse

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Source: bigweasel, Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic licence. I guess it’s not the greatest of accolades is it? – The smallest desert in the world. What is impressive is that...

Huldufólk. Why Do So Many Icelanders Believe In Elves?

On February 18, 2015 by Louis Falasha

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“Kewaunee River” by Chris Rand – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Iceland. Aurora Borealis, hot springs, twisted daylight hours and Bjork. Folklore is still pretty archaic there too....

Goodfellow’s Tree-Kangaroo: Who?

On February 15, 2015 by Lazer Horse

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I love it when I come across an image of an animal that I don’t even recognise, and that’s what happened here with the wonderfully cute Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo. It’s named after Walter Goodfellow (1866–1953)...

Albania’s Wildlife Packed Lake Prespa Region

On February 14, 2015 by Lazer Horse

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This is the second entry in my project to write a short article on one impressively beautiful area or structure within every country of the world. Recently I wrote about Afghanistan’s Minaret of Jam,...

5 Essential Blue Animals For Your Street Gang

On February 12, 2015 by Louis Falasha

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Grey likes to steal blue’s thunder quite ruthlessly when it comes to nature. It’s only been 600 million years since Darwin invented eyes; there wasn’t much need for colour before then. It was...

Beautiful Drawings Of Bones From William Cheselden’s Osteographia

On February 6, 2015 by Lazer Horse

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William Cheselden was born on October 19, 1688 at Somerby, near Burrow-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire. He worked as an apprentice surgeon at St. Thomas’s Hospital where he fell deeply in love with bones. By 1711, he was...

Douc Langers: Rare Primate Space Wizards

On February 1, 2015 by Lazer Horse

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Douc Langers, or just doucs to their friends consist of three species of the genus Pygathrix. They are Southeast Asian Old World monkeys and all of them look incredible. The three douc species are as follows: red-shanked, black-shanked...

Cicada Wings Naturally & Passively Destroy Bacteria

On January 30, 2015 by Tim Newman

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Some incredible results have been published this week in the Biophysical Journal showcasing the work of an international research team. The findings are interesting in themselves because they show us yet another incredible trick that...

Qijianglong: New Dinosaur Species With Longest Neck Ever

On January 30, 2015 by Lazer Horse

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There have been plenty of striking dinosaurs clambering over this planet throughout the years. A newly discovered species – Qijianglong – is a particularly impressive beast. Its neck makes up more than half of its body length. In 2006,...

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