5 Minerals You Didn’t Know You Used Everyday
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One things for sure, modern life is complicated. There’s a load of stuff that we use each and every day that we hardly even notice anymore. How do they put bristles in a...
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Gyandromorphs: Half Male, Half Female
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Gyandromorphs are animals which have done a genetic woopsie whilst building their bodies and accidentally made part of themselves male and part female. Gyandromorphism can effect a number of species, most commonly (and obviously) in butterflies, but...
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Physiologus: Medieval Animal Art
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The Physiologus is an ancient text, written somewhere between the 1st and 4th centuries AD. The book features drawings of animals, mythical and real, alongside short stories, explaining the animal’s general characteristics. The stories are designed...
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The Handsome Moustache Toad
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The Emei moustache toad, or Taosze spiny toad (Leptobrachium boringii) is found in the Sichuan, Guizhou, and Hunan provinces of China. They only breed in slow-flowing streams surrounded by forest, cultivated fields, and grassland. The origin...
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Emma Fay’s Amazing Wildlife Body Painting
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Emma Fay has an impressive talent. It’s a bit odd and perhaps not all that useful (that’s a bit rich coming from me), but it certainly is a skill. She turns humans into...
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Nicky Bay’s Incredible Insect Photography
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Nick Bay has been photographing insects for many years and has honed his craft: he manages to make creepy crawlies look… dare I say it… beautiful. He spends his time hanging out in...
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Trilobite Beetle: An Asian Alien
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Known as the trilobite beetle, or trilobite larva, the genus Platerodrilus are a funny looking bunch. They get their street name from their uncanny similarity to the trilobite of prehistoric fame. There are at...
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Lake Baikal: Deepest, Biggest, Oldest
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Lake Baikal sits proud and alert in wintery Siberia, and as lakes go, it’s a mighty impressive girl, earning itself the nickname “the Pearl of Siberia”. As far as volume is concerned, Lake...
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Life-Sized Chrome T-Rex In Paris
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I don’t know why no one has bothered to tell me this before, but in 2013 a life-size model of Tyrannosaurus Rex was installed atop the platform of Compagnie des Bateaux-Mouches by the River...
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