Archive : Biology

U.S scientists and researchers are still debating whether there is still oil in the gulf or not .  Some scientists are saying that there is at least 80% of the 5million barrels still in the water, other groups are saying that the oil is gone. A recent report by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory shows that most of the oil gushed into the gulf disappeared. The researchers led by Terry Hazen said [...]

Few days ago, I posted a video about a “Psychic Octopus” that predicted Germany  win over England. Two days ago, the octopus predicted Germany’s victory over Argentina on Saturday July 3d. The octopus predicted accurately all of Germany’s games in the world cup. This is another boost for the German’s players as they are playing one of the strongest teams in the world [...]

Few weeks ago, president Barack Obama stopped all deepwater oil drilling because of the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. This “man made disaster” cost many people’s jobs, damaged tourism industry, in addition to harming priceless coastal habitat and wildlife. But the federal court in Louisiana announced today that they are going to lift a six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling [...]

It has been almost a month since this environmental catastrophe started, and still leaking thousands of gallons of oil every day into the open water. NASA released images of the oil reaching shore from different locations, take a look at these pictures to give you an idea how much oil is in the water.

NASA scientists discovered a new and unique creature 600 hundreds feet beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet. The creature looks like a shrimp but its not, its a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp. The creature lives in a complete darkness, so I guess it was  happy to see the camera and came swimming by and then parked itself on the camera’s cable. “We were operating [...]

Be the first one to see giant squids off the coast of Californian. These squids already amused thousands of people in the nation, the  squids weigh up to 60 pounds each and squirt ink when irritated.

In a huge event hosted by Guinness World Records two weeks ago on January 14th, 2009,  the world’s tallest man shacked hand with the world’s shortest man. The event was hosted in Istanbul, Turkey where He Pingping, 21 years old from China met Sultan Kosen, 27, from Turkey. He Pingping is officially the world’s shortest man with a height of 73 cm (2 feet 5 inch). Turk, Kosen, is [...]

After the balloon scene you are going to see a kind of salamander that lives in Sierras mountain in California, and has the fastest tongue to catch a prey on earth. Also, the segment after it, you will see the mantis shrimp, that has the fastest punch on earth (almost the same as the speed of bullet). Just watch this.