A tube-nosed fruit bat with an appearance reminiscent of the Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda has been discovered in a remote rainforest. The bat, along with an orange spider and a yellow-spotted frog are among a host of new species found in a region of Papua New Guinea. More than 200 animals and plants were revealed for the first time after two months of surveying in the rugged and little-explored Read More ...
Marsupial, or tasmanian, the devil (Sarcophilus laniarius; ustar. Sarcophilus harrisii) – a mammal family of carnivorous marsupial, the only species of the genus Sarcophilus. His black coloring, a huge mouth with sharp teeth, ominous night cries and fierce temper gave the first European settlers authority nickname of the stocky predator «devil». Its scientific name is translated from Greek as “amateur flesh”.
Can you imagine that all this is made of food. So you can eat all toys.
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of paper. Won Park is the master of Origami. He is also called the “money folder”, a practitioner of origami whose canvas is the United States Read More ...
A bizarre-looking rodent described as “the Mickey Mouse of the desert” has been turned into an unwitting movie star to try to ensure its survival. The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) today released the first known footage of the long-ear jerboa, which looks like a mouse-sized kangaroo with enormous ears.
Mother Nature Network has a photo gallery of ten animals with very long lifespans, including the red sea urchin: Red sea urchin The red sea urchin or Strongylocentrotus franciscanus is found only in the Pacific Ocean, primarily along the West Coast of North America. It lives in shallow, sometimes rocky, waters from the low-tide line down to to 90 meters, but they stay out of extremely wavy areas. They crawl Read More ...
Look at these lovely animals-cats, seahorse and beautiful landscapes-the sun, the moon, they’re actually appearing on the surface of coffee, isn’t that amazing?! They’re created by simply ‘drawing’ on the top layer of foam. And when we got such cups of coffee in hands, we’ll definitely smile and celebrate for so nice a day:)
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. “True rats” are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus. Many members of other rodent genera and families are also called rats and share many characteristics with true rats.
