Here Are 29 Ridiculous Science Facts That We Illustrated

I've heard about them and just checked some more facts on wikipedia. Just as I remembered, these lizards still need a stimulus - "pseudo-copulation", i.e. one female humps anther. An interesting fact that I didn't know is that they're triploid - they don't have two (like pretty much any other animal), but three sets of chromosomes. Which explains why they don't reproduce sexually. Normally, a zygote gets half of the total number of chromosome sets from each of the parents. But you can't really do that with three sets, you'd either get gametes with a different number of sets, meaning the offspring might be di-, tri-,or tetraploid (which doesn't work within one animal species), or both gametes would only get half of one of the sets - that would be even worse.

We used to do a "free friday" afternoon in our high school science class. One day our discussion turned to the fact that if all females learned cloning, males would become obsolete. Especially if we perfect fetal DNA changes, which would mean the clone wouldn't have to be an exact copy. I'm not a feminist by any means, BUT, I like to drag this out when I meet a misogynist. I've met a few who can't even comprehend it and that just makes it funnier somehow!

Awesome. I never knew this was a thing in nature on Earth. An asexually-reproducing vertebrate animal. Cool! Anyone remember Enemy Mine?

Okay. . . but why are they asking about, "who runs the world?" They're tiny lizards. No gender based bias would grant or deny any member of their species the ability to run anything. Who runs the world? creme filled pastry... that's who.

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That's sad.

Say whaaaa.....O_O

You know... things like this should give people who say that homosexuality and transgenders are abnormal something to think about.

i have so many questions

never knew

Split Personality :D

Every hour?!? The air in that area must be very polluted by all the ash..

Why would you next to a volcano that erupts every hour?

true, i live very close to it... small puffs but daily

The hyenas got a big laugh out of this one!

Also, falcons are more closely related to parrots than they are to eagles and hawks!!!!

The hyena's closest relative is actually the mongoose!

Hmm.. so Janja and Kion are closely related.. who knew!!

whaat?

I would never gain that because I can't fight.

+10 attack, +20 defense, +10 balls

Now that explains a lot about some instances of human males. Do they think themselves Mandrills?

bigger testicles or swollen testicles

what the...

I can only imagine the circumstances surrounding this discovery...

ok, but let's not

I think I'll pass on that

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The milk from a baby coconut can be used as a blood transfusion. It's what they used in operations during The Pacific Theatre during Word War Two.

Only in uncontrolled diabetes.

This is scientifically unprovable.

Who knew? Apparently one of my caveman ancestors was terrorised by a clown.

That's interesting. It also explains the people who have an irrational fear of something, but can't explain where or why it came from.

Bogus. Only mutations that affect the reproductive cells can be passed on to the next generations. Memories are not mutations and does not affect the reproductive cells. There is a part of the brain that exists specifically to spot snakes. That's why many people are instinctively afraid of snakes. It has nothing to do with memories from our ancestors. If a child sees a parent being afraid of bees or dirt there is a chance that the phobia is passed on because a child's cognitive brain is easy to affect.

Some common phobias like fear of snakes and spiders, perhaps also heights or closed spaces and such are theorized to be evolved traits that helped our ancestors survive in the wild but other phobias are clearly not. At best, they are a hijacking of our inherited survival mechanisms, but I don't think clowns were common predators for humans.

The also taught her to fetch. Thats why the area is named Sarah-getty.