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Giant squid
The Humboldt squid (scientific name Dosidicus gigas) is a squid of family Ommastrephidae, of considerable size, which is in the waters of the Humboldt Current, off the South American coast. Because of its highly aggressive nature and the dark red color of the body, this squid is also called Diablo Rojo, [...] Read More
Reptile with terrible heads
Estemmenosuchus is a vertebrate belonging to extinct therapsids. He lived between the middle Permian and Upper Permian ( 250-248 million years ago), and his remains were found in European Russia.
This animal was equipped with a massive body and strong legs and strong to support it. The entire animal [...] Read More
The world's largest living organism
Armillaria ostoyae (Latin = armillary bracelet, Armillaria = relevant to bracelets, ring on her) is a very common fungus belonging to the family Marasmiaceae.
The peculiarity of this species is the fact that one of his pieces is the largest living thing in the world. It is also one of the most common [...] Read More
Theory of the world in iron-sulfur
The theory of the world's iron and sulfur is a hypothesis on the origin of life advanced by Günter Wächtershäuser, a German chemist employed -as A. Einstein- at the patent office, involving forms of iron and sulfur. Wächtershäuser proposed that an early form of prebiotic metabolism [...] Read More
The cosmic origin of nucleic acids
The so-called "world hypothesis in PAHs", proposed in 2005 by Simon Nicholas Platts, is a hypothesis about the origin of life proposes that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), formed in interstellar clouds, as the basis for a pre-RNA world. To confirm this hypothesis, in 2007 the Cassini [...] Read More
Cots interstellar, the building blocks of life
It is common opinion that interstellar clouds are part of the cycle of the interstellar medium, according to which the gas and dust, the raw material for the formation of new stars, clouds pass by them and, at the end of their existence, may once again to form clouds, forming the starting material [...] Read More
The hallucinating Hallucigenia
The allucigenia (Genus: Hallucigenia) was a mysterious marine animal, probably belonging to the Lobopoda, who lived between the Lower Cambrian and Middle Cambrian (between 520 and 505 million years ago). His remains were found in the well-known deposits of shale Burgess Shales in Canada and Maotianshan [...] Read More
Life on Mars, once, maybe ...
Disappointment. This is the current state of mind of those who fervently hoped that there was methane on Mars, as they seemed to suggest measures made from Earth in 2009. Why Curiosity, the rover NASA for over a year running around on the surface of the red planet, said just the opposite. The results [...] Read More
Tarantula Italian fossil of 215 million years ago
Carnia continues to return unique fossils like a spider of the Triassic, one of the oldest so far cataloged by paleontologists in the world, discovered in the Carnic Alps, near Forni di Sopra. It is a fourth species of Triassic Migale, dating back to 215 million years ago. The discovery made accidentally [...] Read More
A fossil almost a possible alien
The spriggina (Spriggina floundersi) is an enigmatic fossil organism, lived at the end of the Proterozoic (Ediacaran, about 550 million years ago). His remains have been found mainly in Australia.
This segmented organism reached a length of about three inches, and may have been a predator. The lower [...] Read More
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