A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has revealed that toddlers are more sophisticated than chimps when it comes to social learning skills.As part of the study, Esther Herrmann and her colleagues compared 105 2-year-old human children, 106 chimpanzees and 32 organutans in a comprehensive battery [...]
Australian wild-dog dingo was better suited than the much larger and now extinct thylacine to resist the mechanical stresses associated with killing large prey, according to a new study in the current issue of the Proceedings B of the Royal Society.A team led by UNSW palaeontologist Stephen Wroe found that despite being armed with [...]
Cornell University researchers claim to have developed a way of making bio-diesel continuously, without the need to fill and empty batch reactors. Making biodiesel involves a reaction called transesterification in which the triglycerides and free fatty acids in oils from plants such as corn or linseed react with methanol to form methyl esters of 16-18 [...]
A horrifying breed of vampire dog that sucks blood from farm animals is on the loose in Cuero, Texas. Residents claim to have seen the large-fanged hounds sink their teeth into the necks of terrified livestock and drain them of their blood, leaving behind only a trail of bloodless corpses, all their flesh intact.
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Experts from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology have uncovered Biblical proof that documents Israel as the ‘land of milk and honey’. The term “honey” appears 55 times in the Bible, 16 of which as part of the image of Israel as “the land of milk and honey”. It is commonly believed that [...]