What Do You Need to Know about Amazing Bioluminescence?
Bioluminescence is an amazing chemical reaction occuring in some living organisms, mainly deep sea creatures, that produces visible light.
How Do Body Farms Make You Appreciate Decomposition?
Body Farms make you appreciate decomposition. Dr. Bill Bass’s body farm was responsible for many advancements in the study of human decomposition.
10 Disgusting Things Happening to a Body After Death
Death and taxes, they say, are the only sure things. The ugly truth of putrefaction is another. Our body after death returns to the dust from where it came.
Check out this Bad Bug. Its Weird, It Flies and What is it?
Giant flying bugs – these ones are weird, dangerous-looking and live where you least expect. Liking bright lights they’re also called Electric Light Bugs.
Goldenrod: Fact and Mythology
Inside: Goldenrod, an aster relative, is blamed for seasonal hay fever. An insect pollinated plant, beautiful goldenrod instead has many healing properties. Goldenrod is a perennial wildflower found worldwide. To most it is a weed but to many it is a...
What Creatures Make Up the Shells of Lake Huron?
Shells of Lake Huron may not compare to more tropical shells in terms of size and variety of shapes and colors but they can be found in abundance along the shores of most beaches in Ontario, Canada and Michigan, U.S.A. As a kid, I spent hours collecting shells along...Welcome!
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