This is a follow-up on my glowing bugs post. Bioluminescent things always amazed me. I love that a living creature can glow! Literally. Here are just 5 of the wonderful bio-luminescent creatures.
1. Lighting Bugs(fireflies)
2. Ctenophora (jellyfish)
3. Glowing Fungi (mushrooms)
4.Common Glowworm
5.Firefly Squid
This is the giant’s shinbone compared with a regular man from the same period.
Above you see two bones the top one is oddly bigger isn’t it. Well that is because the bottom one is a regular man. And the top one is a rather larger man. Or a giant.
The tomb was found near Rome. Then it was sent off for analysis, the duties of which fell to Simona Minozzi, a paleopathologist at Italy’s University of Pisa.
Minozzi studied the bones and found evidence of gigantism, a growth abnormality caused by over-stimulation of the pituitary gland.
Closer study by the Archaeological Superintendence of Rome of the shinbone suggested a height for the Roman giant–6’8″, a literal giant in Ancient Rome, where the average height of man was closer to five and a half feet.
Some beekeepers in France were dumbfounded when blue and green honey showed up in beehives. They tried to sell it and couldn’t because it didn’t meet France’s honey production standard .That’s not satisfactory for a region that makes up to thousand ton’s of honey per year and a high bee carnage rate and low honey production after a harsh, winter. An inquisition by beekeepers in the town of Ribeauville figured out the problem: Instead of collecting nectar from flowers, local bees were eating remnants of colored M&M candy shells. The apiculturist have now thoroughly cleansed all leftovers of M&M’s on any container.
Scientist have finally specified the rare condition that makes snakes tie themselves up in knots stare off into space and literally waste away.
The mortiferous condition known as inclusion body disease (IBD) was inceptively distinguished in snakes, notably pythons and boa constrictors, in the 1980s. Snakes diagnostically inhabited with IBD will often exhibit behavioral issues including an inability to flip over when turned on their backs and “stargaze,” or stare off into space weaving their heads back and forth as if intoxicated. The infectiously diseased snakes also do not gormandize (eat), and if they do, most snakes regurgitate their food.
So basically they tie themselves in knots, stare into space, do not eat, and die.
According to National Geographic a new species of amphibians has been discovered.
It isn’t a snake. It’s not a worm either, but it sure acts like one. It is a soil burrowing limbless amphibian. Above it I am assuming a mother is guarding her young. Its native home is northeastern India. This is one of about six more new amphibians part of a group called caecilians.
This information is provided by National Geographic
Talking parrots are the only obvious talking animals but recently that has all changed. We now have a talking beluga whale, singing mice and a talking elephant that speaks Korean!!!!!!!
Talking elephant
Talking Beluga Whale
Singing Mice
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121017-singing-mice-songs-animals-science-weird/
Buggin' Out For Biology 