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Living beings have at their disposal sometimes quite entertaining organs for defense and offense. "Artillery installation" found in nature very often. For example, a truly amazing creation lives in the jungles of South America. At first glance, unremarkable small beetle as one centimeter, referred to herein as brahinus. However, the nearest acquaintance with him has caused a sensation...

It turns out that there are predators among the plants that prey continuously. They know how to watch for, lure, and then mercilessly kill their prey. They are called plant-hunters. On the globe there are about 500 species of carnivorous plant-hunters. First on the list can be called sundew...

Probably everyone remembers from the textbooks of biology drawings, in which fish is shown with which the evolution of first vertebrates on earth begins. Can we assume that this fish really exist? It was believed that she had died a long time ago. She even gave the name - tselokant. Scientists have long searched for a solution to this problem. And finally...

Can plants be sweeter than sugar?.. It turns out, yes. In this case, even chemistry can not do anything. It was supplied us the sweet substance - saccharin, which is 300 times sweeter than regular sugar. However, recently discovered plant, the fruit of which is much sweeter than sugar and, even saccharine...

Since the childhood many times it was necessary to hear the name of a miracle-tree baobab which grows somewhere in Africa. But what kind of tree is this, and what is its uniqueness known by far from all. It turns out that among the wonders of the vegetable world of tropical Africa, one of the main places belongs to this wonderful tree of baobab...

Fish-sensations! So you would say, after seeing these fish! In addition to fish in a fur coat in Atlantic Ocean north of the Azores, the Danish expedition caught another amazing a fish with a length of only 40 mm. Instead of the usual scales on mirapine ezau, as it was called, there was a dense hair cover...