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The water pressure around a human diver increases as he goes into deeper water. As the pressure increases, his blood is able to hold more dissolved oxygen. Our blood also absorbs the nitrogen in the air around us. If a diver were to move toward the surfac...

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The bird of paradise is among the strangest and most beautiful birds in the world. They are so unusual that evolutionary scientists are having difficulty explaining how such creatures could have evolved. It was not until 1824 that the first European saw a...

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Not a week goes by that we don’t hear of some plant or animal threatened with extinction. Is such a rapid rate of extinction natural, or is it caused by the activities of modern technological man? It is popularly thought that the extinctions of vari...

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It’s not at all true that penguins are flightless birds. They are perfectly designed to fly. However, when a penguin goes flying in search of its food, it doesn’t search in the air, but in the water. The king penguin is one of the world’...

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Today we’re going to a school of fish to learn about the wisdom that God built into some 20,000 different species of fish. First of all, fish don’t learn how to school; they know how to school instinctively at birth. Schooling has advantages f...

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The Choco Indians of Panama and Colombia use the poison from the skin of the beautiful poison dart frog to make their lethal darts. The bright orange and deep blue skin of this frog serves to warn predators that it is best left alone and its poisonous ski...

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Sometimes God’s imagination is so creative that even the scientists are stumped by the results. One such example is the colugo, an animal that scientists tried to place in three different families before they finally gave up and designated a whole n...

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Over the centuries humans have tried different strategies to protect themselves from sharks. But it’s no secret that most shark repellents simply don’t work. But scientists have learned, from a lowly fish no less, that repelling a shark is as ...

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On previous “Creation Moments” we have talked about some of the wonderful designs that help make the giraffe possible. The giraffe has a strong heart to pump blood all the way up to its head and strong arteries to withstand the high blood pres...

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For years scientists have thought that lobsters were loners. Intensive study of the lifestyle of lobsters now shows that lobsters have their own very complex, bustling society. The average lobster spends many of its evening hours checking out newcomers an...

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