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  The largest living bird, a member of the Struthioniformes, is the ostrich ( Struthio camelus ), from the plains of Africa and Arabia. A large male ostrich can reach a height of 2.8 m (9.2 ft) and weigh over 156 kg (345 lb). A mass of 200 kg (440 lb) has been cited for the ostrich but no wild ostriches of this massive weight have been verified. Eggs laid by the ostrich can weigh 1.4 kg (3 lb) and are the largest eggs in the world today.   The largest bird in the fossil record may be the extinct elephant birds ( Aepyornis ) of Madagascar, which were related to the ostrich. They exceeded 3 m (10 ft) in height and 500 kg (1,120 lb). [3] The last of the elephant birds became extinct about 300 years ago. Of almost exactly the same upper proportions as the largest elephant birds was Dromornis stirtoni of Australia, part of a 26,000-year-old group called mihirungs of the family Dromornithidae. The largest carn...

The giant huntsman spider was discovered in a cave in Laos in 2001. The world's largest known spider is a male goliath bird-eating spider (Theraphosa blondi) collected by members of the Pablo San Martin Expedition at Rio Cavro, Venezuela in April 1965. It had a record leg-span of 28 cm (11 in) - sufficient to cover a dinner plate. This species is found in the coastal rainforests of Surinam, Guyana and French Guiana, but isolated specimens have also been reported from Venezuela and Brazil.The coloration is yellowish-brown with several irregularly distributed dark spots on the rear half. The legs have wide dark bands before the first bend. Like all huntsman spiders, the legs of the giant huntsman spider are long compared to the body, and twist forward in a crab-like fashion. Apart from its size, the H. maxima can be distinguished from other species of Heteropoda by genital characteristics. On males, the cymbium is much longer than usual, at least three times longer than the t...

Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These magnificent marine mammals rule the oceans at up to 100 feet (30 meters) long and upwards of 200 tons (181 metric tons). Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant. Their hearts, as much as an automobile. Blue whales reach these mind-boggling dimensions on a diet composed nearly exclusively of tiny shrimplike animals called krill. During certain times of the year, a single adult blue whale consumes about 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) of krill a day.Blue whales are baleen whales, which means they have fringed plates of fingernail-like material, called baleen, attached to their upper jaws. The giant animals feed by first gulping an enormous mouthful of water, expanding the pleated skin on their throat and belly to take it in. Then the whale's massive tongue forces the water out through the thin, overlapping baleen plates. Thousands of krill are left behind—and then swallowed.   Blue whales look true ...

Cold-blooded animals are those whose body temperatures are regulated by their environment, and Warm-blooded animals are those whose body temperatures are kept relatively constant by internal mechanisms. Along with the way their body temperatures vary, another main difference between these types of animals is that warm-blooded animals require more food. The terms "cold-   blooded" and "warm-blooded" are misleading because cold-blooded animals' blood is not necessarily cold, it just varies based on the temperature of the environment. More accurate terms are "ectothermic" instead of "cold-blooded" and "endothermic" or "homeothermic" instead of "warm-blooded." Another term for ectothermic animals is "poikilotherms," which means animals that   have varying body temperatures.There are several advantages to being endothermic — greater stamina, having only one set of body enzymes that works op...

  In a cold and dark underwater world, where a never-ending rain of rocks keeps the seafloor barren, researchers were startled to find fish, crustaceans and jellyfish investigating a submersible camera after drilling through nearly 2,500 feet (740 meters) of Antarctic ice. The swimmers are in one of the world's most extreme ecosystems, hidden beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, roughly 530 miles (850 kilometers) from the open ocean. "This is the closest we can get to something like Europa," Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a chief scientist on the drilling project, said, referring to Jupiter's icy moon. This is the first time scientists have drilled through an ice shelf to its grounding line. These thick, floating tongues of ice are attached to glaciers or ice sheets, and the grounding line marks the transition from land to sea. Researchers with the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (W...

Physical depiction The more noteworthy one-horned (or Indian) rhinoceros is the biggest of the three Asian rhinos – and, together with African white rhinos, the biggest of all rhino species. It has a solitary dark horn around 20-60 cm long and a light black tan cover up with skin folds, which provide for it a protective layer plated appearance. The upper lip is semi-prehensile. Weight:  1,800-2,700 kg   Shade: Gray tan, pinkish at the skin folds Meandering in approximately characterized regions Social structure More prominent one-horned rhinos are lone, with the exception of when sub-grown-ups or grown-up guys accumulate at flounders or to brush. Guys have approximately characterized domains which are not decently protected, and regularly cover. Life cycle Females are sexually develop at 5-7 years of age, while guys developed at around 10 years old. Reproducing happens as the year progressed. The single posterity stays with the mother until the conception of her next c...

Subject Father Reason Bacteriology Robert Koch, Ferdinand Cohn, Louis Pasteur (founders) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek For their studies and scientific findings on bacteria and algae. First to produce precise, correct descriptions of bacteria. Biogeography Alfred Russel Wallace Wallace shows the impact of human activity on the natural world. Biology Aristotle Entomology Jan Swammerdam (founder) Johan Christian Fabricius William Kirby (Fabricius): Described and published information on over 10,000 insects, and refined Linnaeus's system of classification. Evolution Charles Darwin Publication: On the Origin of Species Genetics Gregor Mendel William Bateson (founder) For his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants, which forms the basis for Mendelian inheritance. Proponent of Mendelism. Ichthyology Peter Artedi Lichenology Erik Acharius Microbiology Antonie van Leeuwenhoek The first to microscopically observe micro-organism...

Cells are the fundamental building squares of all living things. The human body is made out of trillions of cells. They give structure to the body, take in supplements from nourishment, change over those supplements into vitality, and do particular capacities. Cells additionally contain the body's inherited material and can make duplicates of themselves. Cells have numerous parts, each with an alternate capacity. Some of these parts, called organelles, are specific structures that perform certain errands inside the phone. Human cells contain the accompanying significant parts, recorded in sequential order request: Cytoplasm Inside cells, the cytoplasm is comprised of a jam like liquid (called the cytosol) and different structures that encompass the core. Cytoskeleton The cytoskeleton is a system of long strands that make up the cell's structural structure. The cytoskeleton has a few discriminating capacities, including deciding cell shape, taking part in cell division, ...

In science, kingdom (Latin: regnum, pl. regna) is the second most noteworthy taxonomic rank underneath area. Kingdoms are isolated into littler gatherings called phyla. Customarily, course readings from the United States utilized an arrangement of six kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaeabacteria, and Bacteria/Eubacteria ) while reading material in Great Britain, India, Australia, Latin America and different nations utilized five kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protoctista, and Prokaryota/Monera). Some late orders focused around advanced cladistics have expressly relinquished the expression "kingdom", noting that the customary kingdoms are not monophyletic, i.e., don't comprise of every last one of relatives of a typical progenitor. At the point when Carl Linnaeus presented the rank-based arrangement of classification into science, the most elevated rank was given the name "kingdom" and was trailed by four other principle or key posit...

  On January 15, 2015, Google announced that it would cease producing the Google Glass prototype but remained committed to the development of the product. In their eyes Project Glass was prepared to 'graduate' from Google Labs, the experimental phase of the project. Google Glass was a kind of wearable expertise with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD). It was developed by Google with the mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer.[1] Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format. Wearers communicate with the Web by natural language voice commands. Google started selling a prototype of Google Glass to qualified "Glass Explorers" in the US on April 15, 2013, for a limited period for $1,500, before it became available to the public on May 15, 2014, for the same cost. Google Glass was developed by Google X, the facility within Google dedicated to technological advancements such as driverless cars. Google Glass is smaller and s...

  Stephen William Hawking (born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.Among his significant scientific works have been a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set forth a cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanicsStephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. Now the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and...