A Swiss artist, Henry Fuseli (7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) is the person who introduced a female horse, a mare, into the description of a bad dream which is called a “nightmare”. We don’t know why Fuseli introduced this horse into his painting …
The best scientists in the world don’t know for sure when dogs were first domesticated (or where). I think the question is incorrectly formulated. It should be when were gray wolves first domesticated? But I’m being pedantic. The bigger issue is when and where it …
Scientists have come to a neat theory as to why some of the best-known dinosaurs evolved into having such enormously long necks. And when you think about it, it makes sense. Over millions of years they developed long necks to feed from the leaves of …
The rock musician, Kerr Sharpe-Young, 28, of Blistered Fingers has discovered a 3 million-year-old seal fossil in a large boulder while exploring a beach in New Zealand in 2018. He said the large boulder caught his eye before discovering the fossil. It is the first …
I will very briefly tell you why animals today are much smaller than they were in the days of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are reptiles i.e. cold-blooded. They rely on the ambient temperature to warm themselves up. This is why they live in warm climates. They require …
Background Scientists had once thought that sociable mammals only came into being after the dinosaurs became extinct about 66 million years ago. They also thought that sociability occurred mostly in the Placentalia of which humans are part. These mammals carried a foetus in their womb. …
The primary reason for the existence of dogs and cats nowadays is that they are companions to humans. They entertain us, make us happier and more relaxed. However, Rhys Blakely, The Times’ science correspondence writes today that there was a time when they were employed …
EGYPT – RED SEA COAST – 100-200 BC: The remains of pet monkeys, “sleeping like children”, have been uncovered in an ancient seaport of Egypt on the west coast of the Red Sea founded by Plotemy II in 275 BC. Archaeologists from Warsaw’s University Centre …
This is a picture of a plaster cast of a dog at Pompeii. It is the right time to show it on this website. In A.D. 79, on this day, Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. It was one of the deadliest in …
