Mantis are also bikers

Pink grasshopper, whose color is the result of a rare genetic mutation.

                                    Thai

Thai cats do not like being alone, so go for the owner on the heels, and even when he takes a bath, manage perched on the edge of it and play in the water tab.

Banana spider or a Brazilian Wandering Spider.

In 2007, the monster hit the Guinness Book of Records as the originator of the largest number of human deaths. These spiders are dangerous not only to their poison, but also their own behavior. Banana spider - the most poisonous spider creatures do not sit still, and wander through the land, hiding in cars, houses, clothes and shoes. This increases the probability of encountering poisonous animals.

Proteins are very greedy :) just one week Eat protein, whose mass is equal to the weight of her body.

The mouth of a giant anteater is so bright that you could not put his finger round!

Pekingese Chinese descent - one of the oldest breeds in the world. Images Pekingese can be seen on objects made of bronze, which 4 thousand. Years.

Jerzy appeared on Earth about 15 million years ago.

In ancient Greece and Egypt jackals revered as gods. At all times these animals are perfectly adapted to a changing environment.

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Scientists: Dinosaurs died out because of the growth of the Earth's gravity

Scientists from Vladivostok suggested that the extinction of the dinosaurs contributed to the growth of the Earth's gravitational force. His hypothesis is confirmed paleontologists mathematical calculations.

According to one hypothesis, the authors Anatoly Drozdov, has long minds from around the world concerned about the fact that the animals of the past, the existence of which is undeniable, now hardly able to survive because of the increase from the time the force of attraction. It is the first of the giants, weighing dozens of tons.

Scientists from the Institute of Marine Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences reviewed the available information on the evolution of over 150 million years, 11 species of the largest land animals. The result was that the dinosaurs appeared and evolved in completely different circumstances - when Earth's gravity was 2,079 times smaller than now.

Moreover, according to scientists, dinosaurs became extinct because of a sharp (in geological terms) changes in gravity. It happened about 60-100 million years ago due to the accumulation of the past 100 million years the Earth's surface large amounts of cosmic dust - the mass of the planet has increased and increased the force of gravity, which the dinosaurs could not move.

Why bullfinches fly it for the winter and where to fly in the spring?

Bullfinches - sedentary birds, and not in some distant lands, they do not fly away in the spring. It turns out, bullfinches spend most of their lives in coniferous forests, and in the winter gather in flocks and fly in search of food in the next town. All peeled rowan berry and left without food sparrows, bullfinches voracious fly back. It is also true in the summer in the woods to see the birds is very difficult: they do not cry out loud all the time hiding in the trees.

It looks like a tree frog in Alaska, it freezes in the winter, stopping the heart, and wakes up in the spring.

A graceful bird blue-footed boobies

Not all animals in Australia want to kill you...

Little lizard made a crib in a rosebud, and it's so cute!

How often do you happen to going on business, stopping to sniff a beautiful flower? This ability to notice the beauty around him is worth a lot. This Texan family was lucky encounter with a real miracle, when her daughter tore beautiful rose beds, to give to his mother, and what a surprise it was all as beautiful rosebud inside they found a tiny lizard, who was asleep, curled up in Kalachik! That's for sure it was nice and touching, as if in a fairy tale!

Scientists have found a rat with a pig nose and a very long pubic hair

In the north of the island of Sulawesi (Indonesia) zoologists have discovered a new type of rostellar rats differ unusual appearance. About predatory rodent with a narrow mouth, nose like a pig nose, and very long hair to the urogenital area, described in the journal Journal of Mammalogy, and briefly reported on the opening of publication Mashable.

Animals found in a trap set on Mount Dako in 2013. Big nose, elongated hind legs and an unusually long hairs immediately indicated Theriology Kevin Rowe (Kevin Rowe) that before him - unknown to science species. Creature weighs about 250 grams, and its length from nose to tail reaches 45 centimeters.

Similar pubic hair found in some Australian marsupial rat (eg, potoru). Scientists do not know what is the function of a particular anatomy. "Probably, the hair somewhat assisted reproduction. They are both males and females, such as long, as the whiskers. They do not look like pubic hair man "- said Rowe.

In addition, a new type of rodents Hyorhinomys stuempkei are extremely narrow mouth opening: they do not have some of the jaw bones, which help other mammals chew food. Rather, they swallow their prey (worms and insect larvae) in its entirety.

Unlike most rodents, the front teeth are painted in brown and slightly angular cutters Hyorhinomys stuempkei - white and pointed, adapted to prokusyvaniyu production.

Rowe is involved in a major research project to study the diversity of mammals Wallace (biogeographic region, includes a group of islands separated by deep straits of the Asian and Australian continental shelves) and Australia. In Sulawesi, scientists have discovered many new species of rodents, including almost devoid of rat teeth and "amphibious" rat.

Paleontologists: birds learned to fly at least 125 million years ago

Scientists have discovered that the ancient ancestors of birds learned to fly quite a long time - at least 125 million years ago. Previously, the researchers were not sure that a very primitive structure of ancient birds allowing them to rise into the air. More information about the results of the work can be found in the journal Scientific Reports.

The first ancestors of modern birds - archeopteryx - appeared on the planet about 150 million years ago, and they have been found in present-day Germany. Archaeopteryx dimensions do not exceed the size of a crow, and the structure of his body resembled reptiles. The primitive compared to modern birds wing structure makes scientists to doubt whether Archaeopteryx was capable of full flight.

The researchers studied unusually well-preserved wing of an ancient bird that lived on Earth about 125 million years ago. As a result of paleontologists concluded that despite the fact that the skeleton of a bird after all different from the present, the location and strength of the muscles demonstrate the ability of flying creatures. Moreover, according to the authors, made a bird just as its counterparts living today.

Most worker ants appeared inveterate idlers and loafers

Ants, like the bees, for a long time there was a special reputation workaholic working very hard feet. But this pattern has in common with the reality of more than cunning foxes or hedgehogs love to apples. According to a new study, the majority of working individuals in the anthill can stay idle.

Observations were made on small brown ants Temnothorax rugatulus, inhabit coniferous forests of North America. Like many other ants, their working individuals have particular specialty: some are busy in construction, others - exploration and production of food, others take care of the offspring. However, judging by the results of the biologists in Arizona, most working individuals "specialize" to doing nothing.

In the laboratory, the scientists looked at the behavior of a few hundred ants from five different colonies using colored tags to track their movements. Within two weeks, the camera takes an event six times a day, making the recording time of five minutes. The authors then analyzed the data, follow the movements (or lack of movement) in some individuals. So they found that among worker ants 71.9% does not occupied at least half the time, and 25.1% and did never managed to catch for some productive work. Only a small percentage of insects - 2.6% of working individuals - worked constantly, as it should be ants.

Previously, scientists had thought about the fact that the ants are not nearly as hard-working, as is commonly believed. This is attributed to the fact that the activity in the anthill can be distributed throughout the day between the plurality of insects, working "in shifts", due to the displacement of some of their circadian rhythms and daily activity. However, according to new data, lazy individuals remain permanently inactive. The authors suggest that the total laziness may be associated with age, individuals are too young to work or it's too old and "retired." However, there are other hypotheses, "lazy" individuals may be in standby, saving power in case of special need. Their behavior may have some other, yet unknown to us function.

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                  The smallest particle


In summer, a team of researchers working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), said that opened the Higgs boson, which is called the "God particle." The Higgs boson - is the last missing piece in the Standard Model - the generally accepted theory today about the structure of the universe.

The so-called God particle was predicted in 1960 by the English physicist Peter Higgs to explain why some particles such as quarks, electrons and protons have have mass, while other particles, such as photons - are not.

It has long been desired particle can complete the standard model of physics, explaining why the objects in our universe have mass, and hence why the galaxies, planets and even people have a right to exist. According to the theory, when the universe began to cool after the Big Bang, the hypothetical force was formed, known as the Higgs field, together with its quantum - eponymous boson.
This field permeates the entire universe, explains the emergence of the mass of the particles that formed the atoms. Without him, the existence of particles just floated in space to the speed of light. It is known that particles having a mass accelerated to the speed of light can not. The weight they gain just as contact with the Higgs field.

Since the "catch" the Higgs boson is not possible, then the only way to confirm today its existence - is to collect and analyze a large amount of information about the collisions of elementary particles and reveal special "stereotype of splitting", which can be accompanied by nothing but "God particle." That is what the scientists working on the LHC.

These sets of similar experiments on the LHC detectors were submitted to two independent groups of scientists from the CMS and ATLAS. At first the result of a bit has not held up to the level of scientific discoveries from the second opening took place.

"We are seeing a new boson with a mass of about 125 GeV. CMS detector" sees "a new particle - the level of statistical significance of the signal in the individual channels the search exceeded the required five standard deviations," - said the representative of the group CMS Joe Incandela.

He noted that the statistical significance of the combined results of searches in all five channels is 4.9 sigma - 0.1 sigma less than the opening level. In this case, two of the five channels search particles exceeds the statistical significance level is 5 sigma. In the ATLAS GROUP saw "clear evidence of the existence of a new particle, with a significance level of 5 sigma (which corresponds to the opening level), with a mass of about 126 GeV."

Large Hadron Collider built a 100-meter depth under the border of France and Switzerland. It is a 27-kilometer circular tunnel, which is set particle accelerator in the form of a giant pipe. Studies in the LHC in opposite directions run beams of protons that are accelerated to very high speeds, close to the light, and then a part of them collide with each other, resulting in the need to be born and new elementary particles.


In September 2011 the first group of experimental physicists announced that neutrinos sent from the CERN laboratory near Geneva to an underground Italian laboratory Gran Sasso at a distance of 732 km, arrive at the detector 60 nanoseconds earlier than the flow of light in a vacuum at the same distance . This was contrary to the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein, but in February 2012 the experts from the Gran Sasso acknowledged that the error indicators affected devices.

           The most little cat in the world


  Cats accompanying person over 10, 000 years, became not only an object of universal admiration, but also the subject of the work of breeders. Now think for a moment! The planet is home to over 100 officially registered species, which are divided into more than 700 subspecies, excluding "mongrels" and the number-tailed striped than 600 million individuals. And among this world, there is only one, the smallest breed of cat in the world - Toy-Bob.

The size of adult cats can be compared with the size of 5-month-old kitten, weighs less than 2.5 kg. Not knowing what to you Toy-Bob, looking at the photos, you can decide what is the Siamese kitten born without a tail, as the Bobtail. The peculiarity of the breed - huge child-open eyes and "exclusive" shape of the tail, which is a feature of each individual representative of the breed.