Humans genetically related to bananas
Gene sequencing reveals that we have more in common with bananas, chickens, and fruit flies than you may expect. Banana: more…
Human children don’t get kneecap bones until they’re around three years old.
As Torech noted on Reddit, it takes a while for children to get kneecaps. That part of the skeleton is called the patella.…
Some turkeys can spontaneously impregnate themselves through a process called Parthenogenesis.
The form of asexual reproduction — where embryos can grow without fertilization — is rare among birds. It’s also possible for…
There’s a species of shark that can live for around 500 years.
The Greenland Shark has the longest lifespan of all known vertebrates, living an average of 272 years, and some of them…
A chicken lived without a head for 18 months.
Mike the Headless Chicken is perhaps the most famous example. Its owner, a farmer named Lloyd Olsen, chopped his head…
Sharks predate trees.
As Smithsonian Magazine reported, Archaeopteris, the earliest species that scientists can classify as “tree,” lived about 350 million years ago. Sharks, however, can…
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
According to botanists, true berries are simple fruits that stem from a single flower with a single ovary and typically have several…
Nearly the entire continent of South America is located east of Florida.
Without looking at a map, you may think Brazil is located somewhere directly south of Florida. However, nearly the entire…
Around the world, many militaries have trained combat dolphins to perform dangerous tasks, like locate underwater mines.
The Russian Navy, for example, once trained dolphins and other aquatic mammals to attack warships and enemy combat divers. For over 50…