Why should we read children's nonfiction animal books? Teaching kids about animals is akin to teaching colors and numbers.

Dogs do it, beetles do it and so, it seems, do hippos. Eat poo, that is. And it's not just their own poo they're partial to. A conservation group working in north-western Zimbabwe says it has noticed ...

Around a dozen dugouts have been smashed or sunk, witnesses told AFP. Two hippos who were found to have injured a boatman and damaged rice fields have already been destroyed, according to Saidou Maiga ...

“Hannah was born on Nov. 22, 1973, and is recognized in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Regional Studbook as ...

And how could that process be improved for even greater accuracy? May 21, 2025 • What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says.

There’s no specific diet for people with microscopic colitis, but eating foods like plain rice, low fat dairy, and bananas may help symptoms. It’s also best to avoid alcohol and caffeine.

Some people believe that eating certain foods, including soy protein and certain kinds of grains, may benefit people with an A-positive blood type. The concept of blood-type diets was originally ...

Whether it's chocolate that has developed a whitish bloom or bread that has gone slightly mouldy, it's confusing whether something is OK to eat or drink or whether it needs to be binned.

All snakes are 100% carnivorous. Snakes never eat plant material like leaves or vegetables. To this day, scientists and researchers haven’t been able to find even a single species of snake that eats ...

Genome-wide DNA binding profiles and biochemistry data reveal that E75 not only binds to the transcription factors of both Hippo and Notch pathways, but also exhibits widespread co-binding to their ...

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