The demise of Gigantopithecus some 100,000 years ago reveals why big is often not better. Sometimes, in evolution, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And Gigantopithecus was pretty darn big. Fossils indicate it stood as high as 10 feet (3 meters) and weighed up to 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) If you’re an animal, there are advantages to … [Read more...] about The Biggest Ape That Ever Lived Was Doomed By Its Size
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The tiny Croatian island that has more than 23 kilometers of walls and looks like a fingerprint from above the air
Without reaching the Greek profusion, Croatia has 79 large islands, more than 500 smaller islets and another 642 tiny rocks covering an area of about 3,300 square kilometers. One such small island is Baljenac (or Bavljenac), located off the Dalmatian coast in the south of the country and forming part of the Šibenik archipelago. It barely has 0.14 square kilometers of … [Read more...] about The tiny Croatian island that has more than 23 kilometers of walls and looks like a fingerprint from above the air
A Man Broke Down A Wall In His Home To Discover An Underground City That Once Had 20,000 People Living There
A man once found an enormous underground city in his basement while searching for the reason his chickens kept disappearing. In the town of Derinkuyu, Turkey a man was renovating his house in 1963 when he noticed that a lot of his chickens were going missing. During the remodel he noticed that a small crevasse had formed in his basement and his chickens were disappearing … [Read more...] about A Man Broke Down A Wall In His Home To Discover An Underground City That Once Had 20,000 People Living There
Meet Furry Pigs That Look Like Sheep And Act Like Dogs
If you could combine three animals into one, which ones would you pick? A pig, a sheep, and a dog? Well, there's no need to camp outside of the geneticist cloner's office any longer, because the Mangalitsa pig fits the bill! Its curly hair give it a sheep-like appearance, and some breeders say it's as good natured as a dog. But wait, there's more. This … [Read more...] about Meet Furry Pigs That Look Like Sheep And Act Like Dogs
The World’s Biggest Flowers Are So Massive That They Dwarf People
One of the most diverse groups of life on Earth are flowering plants, and those with the largest flowers are the best examples of how far evolution has progressed. Here are five of the largest flowers in the world, ranging from the three-foot-diameter "corpse flower" to a type of magnolia with a flower larger than a grown man's hand. Corpse Flower (Rafflesia … [Read more...] about The World’s Biggest Flowers Are So Massive That They Dwarf People