All of us are familiar with using bait to lure prey. Both live and artificial bait are used to catch fish. Stores lure shoppers with sale prices. The use of both bait and camouflage is an even more sophisticated activity. The duck hunter not only hides in...
Continue ReadingMany kinds of birds collect and store food for later use. However, scientists recently reported that the female red-cockaded woodpecker collects, stores and appropriately uses a dietary mineral supplement as well. As is true for most birds, the female red...
Continue ReadingMammoths and mastodons were distant relatives to the elephant. There is a great deal of debate over when they became extinct and why. Mammoths and mastodons are less mysterious to us than dinosaurs because we can study their preserved bodies. Several of t...
Continue ReadingThere is no room in the harsh realities of evolution for selflessness. For example, evolution says if I help you, I do so because I’m going to get something for myself. Likewise, what appears to be friendly behavior among animals is said to be only ...
Continue ReadingFireflies in southeast Asia regularly put on a show like that seldom seen from fireflies in the rest of the world. These fireflies have an ability found only among humans. As the evening darkness deepens along a riverbank, fireflies in the trees over the ...
Continue ReadingWe’ve all been taught that fish are cold-blooded. In many people’s thinking, perhaps the most cold-blooded of all is the shark. However, scientists have discovered that four types of sharks can raise their internal body temperatures. Why and h...
Continue ReadingAll of us learned in school that the fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex was the largest of the meat eaters. He was large enough to reach into a second story window with his five-foot-long head and grab a person with his six-inch-long teeth. Longer than a railroad b...
Continue ReadingDuring the mid-1980s, the residents at the north end of San Francisco Bay began complaining about a strange droning noise coming from the Bay. During the months of July and August, the odd noise started after sunset and continued until sunrise. People liv...
Continue ReadingAccording to evolution, dinosaurs developed tens of millions of years before horses and were extinct long before the first horse galloped across the countryside. According to the Bible, however, horses and the land dinosaurs were made on the same day. Thi...
Continue ReadingScientists have been studying the different ways in which insects move, hoping to discover a better way to design mobile robots. In doing this they have inadvertently recognized the wisdom and creativity of the Creator, even though they may not care to ad...
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