Taste buds

Taste buds are actually very interesting. Taste buds are sensory organs that are found on your tongue and allow you to experience tastes that are sweet, salty, sour, and bitter.Taste buds have very sensitive hairs on them called microvilla. These tiny hairs are what makes you taste. They send signals to your brain telling it if its sweet, sour, salty etc. The average person has about 10,000 taste buds and they're replaced every 2 weeks or so but they decrease as you get older that's why certain foods may taste stronger to you than they do to adults. Smoking also can reduce the number of taste buds a person has. Taste buds are very interesting.

Slugs

Believe it or not slug's slime has a purpose. They use it to suction power and to travel upside down and up trees and other vertical surfaces. They leave a slime trail behind them as they move. When in danger the slug will let out a thick mucus coating and make their body shorter and fatter. This makes it difficult to eat them and gives them a coating with an unpleasant taste to potential predators. Slugs can fit into almost any space due to their ability to become very long and thin or short and fat. Their slime helps them fit through tight areas. They can avoid sunlight by crawling into small crevices and holes. Their slime also helps keep water in their bodies an important factor in their survival. Slugs actually are very interesting.

Woolly Mammoth

A baby woolly mammoth which spent 40,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost, has provided scientists with clues about how the species survived during the Ice. Age"Lyuba" was sucked to her death in a muddy river bed. She was so well preserved that traces of her mother's milk remained in her belly when she was discovered three years ago by nomadic reindeer herders. Lyuba who was about a month old when she died has already taught researchers much about mammoths that they had been unable to gain from fossils. They have learned so much just from this baby that they expect to have the knowledge to be able to clone these incredible animals by the year 2015

The water cycle

The water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle or H2O cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. Water can change states among liquid, vapor, and solid at various places in the water cycle. The water cycle is probably one of the most important cycles there are.If there was no such thing as the water cycle,if the water had no way of getting from the ground to the clouds then there probably wound not be an earth as we know it.

carnivore

A carnivore is an animal that eats a diet consisting mainly of meat, whether it comes from live animals or dead one An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and meat. A herbivore is often defined as any organism that eats only plants. By that definition, many fungi, some bacteria, many animals,vores lack the specialist behaviour of carnivores and herbivores. These three groups pretty make up our food chain. If it was not for these groups our world would be very different from how we know it today.

140 new relatives to our world!

in the year of 2011, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 140 new relatives to our world. The new species include 72 arthropods, 31 sea slugs, 13 fishes, 11 plants, nine sponges, three corals, and one reptile. This just goes to show that there are still plenty of places to explore and things to discover on Earth. These creatures were found all over the world. People had to go through great lenghts to find these. They went to six continents (all except Antarctica) and three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian), to find them. This is important to our society because it lets us know more about the world we live on.

Wasps

Well-preserved fossil insect cocoons have allowed researchers in Argentina to describe how wasps bred in rotting dinosaur eggs. In 1989 scientists found the 70-million-year-old titanosaur eggs in southern Argentina, an area well known for fossils and dinosaur eggs They later saw that some of the broken eggs they found contained fossilized insect cocoons that were similar in size and shape to the cocoons of certain modern day wasps. There are many records of dinosaur eggs, and even several records of fossil cocoons. But author Jorge Genise says that "this is the first time that these cocoons are found closely associated with an egg." The results indicate that wasps probably participated in the food web, mostly composed of scavenging insects, which developed in the rotten egg. This is important to our knowledge because it gives us a better understanding on the world before humans.