Some birds are very adept at using their feet to grasp, lift and manipulate objects. This ability to use the feet in a hand-like way is called ‘pedal dexterity.’ To find out how this ability came about researchers at University of Alberta have sifted through thousands of photos of birds using their feet to handle […]
Posts by Diane Eager
Climate Confession
“I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published” writes Patrick Brown, a climate scientist who has just published a study on the effect of climate change on wildfires in California. Whilst climate is a factor in increasing wildfires, Brown acknowledges there are other factors including poor forest management and increasing […]
Octopuses’ Guide to Punching Fish
Yes, octopuses have been observed to punch fish with great accuracy, so a group of scientists have studied the biomechanics of how they do this. They found a well-coordinated set of movements involving sending abend down the arms closest to the fish, then rotating the arms outwards while using the other arms to grip rocks […]
Giant Fossil Salamander Escapes from Garden Wall
Scientists at the Australian Museum in Sydney and University of New South Wales (UNSW) have studied the fossil of a giant salamander found embedded in a sandstone block from a quarry on the News South Wales Central Coast region. The block of sandstone was part of a consignment of rocks delivered to a local farmer […]
Archaeopteryx and Ammonite
In 2018 scientists from Germany and Switzerland published a detailed description of an Archaeopteryx specimen they claimed to be the oldest Archaeopteryx. One reasons they claim this record is that the specimen was buried alongside an ammonite – an extinct spiral-shelled sea creature similar to a nautilus. Reference: Rauhut et al. (2018), The oldest Archaeopteryx […]
‘Indigenous’ Dogs and Australian Referendum
Editorial by John Mackay Australia, August 30 – Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his evolutionist atheist beliefs to proclaim the aborigines have been here for 65,000 years, and that voting ‘Yes’ in the coming referendum will celebrate the oldest culture on earth! Tragically, both his dates and claims are lies, based exclusively on pagan beliefs […]
Cicada Wings Clean Up Bacteria.
Cicada and dragonfly wings are known to have a surface layer that kills bacteria by tearing them apart and then removing the dead bacteria. Getting rid of dead bacteria is an important property as it prevents other bacteria from colonising the surface and feeding on the debris of the shredded bacteria. It was thought that […]
Snakes’ Lost Genes
A team of scientists has studied the genomes of 14 species from 12 families of snakes to find out what genetic changes happened for reptiles with four limbs and two lungs to change into snakes with no limbs and one lung. The found three parts of a gene called PTCH1 had missing DNA. This gene […]
Darwin – Descent of a Man
Charles Darwin was a bright young graduate in theology, but by the end of his life he denied the authority of the Bible and that Christ was the Son of God. What happened? Read about his descent from belief to scepticism in our article Descent of a Man PDF here. Were you helped by this […]
Fossil Insect Blows Scientist Away.
Scientists at the Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, have studied an extremely well preserved fossil insect found in the Green River Formation in Colorado, a rock layer consisting of many layers of fine grained shales, dated as 50 million years old. The fossil is a katydid – an insect with long slender legs […]