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Animals: are multicellular organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.
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AUG 06, 2015Health & Medicine
A tsetse fly bite in rural Africa could cause Sleeping Sickness, but a new initiative in Uganda is successfully using bl ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 05, 2015Videos
We often think of a vicious man-eating creature when we think of the word "crocodile." These water-loving creatures have ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 05, 2015Plants & Animals
Boa constrictors are some big scary snakes. They can grow to as long as 10 feet or more and they are heavy. They are the ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAUG 04, 2015Health & Medicine
3D printing is a wonderful technology that involves a special printer capable of printing layer upon layer of printable ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 01, 2015Videos
Dogs are one of the most popular pets for people to have, not just because they're one of the easiest animals to train, ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 01, 2015Infographics
Venom is a toxin secreted by certain animals as a means of defense, aggression, or trapping prey. Given that venom is us ...JUL 31, 2015Videos
Zoo staff at Melbourne Zoo experience an "awe" moment as a baby hippo took a dip in the big pool for the first time with ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 30, 2015Plants & Animals
This episode of SciShow highlights three methods to "resurrect" extinct species…Cloning. Animals can be cloned using a t ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUL 29, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Personalized medicine could get a big boost from a new technique that is said to reduce the number of cells needed for e ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 29, 2015Videos
"Mad Cow Disease" describes the condition in cattle caused by a misfolded protein, called a prion. Humans (and other ani ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 29, 2015Plants & Animals
The northern white rhinoceros subspecies is incredibly rare; there were just five known to exist on the entire planet, a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 29, 2015Cannabis Sciences
Admit it. When the subject of hemp comes up, some of us would think of two dudes in a Volkswagen bus selling scratchy cl ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 28, 2015Health & Medicine
If you've purchased any Cilantro recently, you might want to make sure it's not imported from the Mexican state of Puebl ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 28, 2015Neuroscience
Brain waves have multiple rhythms that come together as needed but then go back to their own frequencies to address thei ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 28, 2015Plants & Animals
Every so often, things happen in nature that come off as unfortunate for infant animals as they're born. In the case of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 27, 2015Plants & Animals
Imagine you're on a beach in the Pacific, snorkeling and you come upon a sea slug. Gross, right? Sea slugs are nasty, sl ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 24, 2015Microbiology
Antibiotics keep farm animals healthy and promote their growth, but excessive antibiotic use no doubt contributes to ant ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUL 24, 2015Plants & Animals
According to the CDC, non-typhoidal Salmonella causes over 1 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations, 450 deaths, and ...Written By: Sarah HertrichJUL 24, 2015Plants & Animals
Planes, trains and automobiles. That's pretty much how travelers get around, but with the global economy expanding the w ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 23, 2015Videos
While most people think of hundreds of acres of scorched Earth, thick clouds of smoke and fleeing animals when a forest ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 21, 2015Health & Medicine
The use of donkey milk dates back to 460-370 B.C. when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, reportedly would prescribe d ...Written By: Sarah HertrichJUL 20, 2015Plants & Animals
While grizzly bears and black bears hibernate through long winters, the opposite was thought to be true for polar bears. ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 19, 2015Neuroscience
Using light to remotely activate drugs could be the next big thing in treating pain, depression, epilepsy and other neur ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 17, 2015Plants & Animals
Platydemus manokwari. Doesn't that sound like some creature out of an old horror movie? Something that oozed out of a po ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 06, 2015
Health & Medicine
A tsetse fly bite in rural Africa could cause Sleeping Sickness, but a new initiative in Uganda is successfully using bl
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 05, 2015
Videos
We often think of a vicious man-eating creature when we think of the word "crocodile." These water-loving creatures have
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 05, 2015
Plants & Animals
Boa constrictors are some big scary snakes. They can grow to as long as 10 feet or more and they are heavy. They are the
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 04, 2015
Health & Medicine
3D printing is a wonderful technology that involves a special printer capable of printing layer upon layer of printable
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 01, 2015
Videos
Dogs are one of the most popular pets for people to have, not just because they're one of the easiest animals to train,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 01, 2015
Infographics
Venom is a toxin secreted by certain animals as a means of defense, aggression, or trapping prey. Given that venom is us
...
JUL 31, 2015
Videos
Zoo staff at Melbourne Zoo experience an "awe" moment as a baby hippo took a dip in the big pool for the first time with
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 30, 2015
Plants & Animals
This episode of SciShow highlights three methods to "resurrect" extinct species…Cloning. Animals can be cloned using a t
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUL 29, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Personalized medicine could get a big boost from a new technique that is said to reduce the number of cells needed for e
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 29, 2015
Videos
"Mad Cow Disease" describes the condition in cattle caused by a misfolded protein, called a prion. Humans (and other ani
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 29, 2015
Plants & Animals
The northern white rhinoceros subspecies is incredibly rare; there were just five known to exist on the entire planet, a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 29, 2015
Cannabis Sciences
Admit it. When the subject of hemp comes up, some of us would think of two dudes in a Volkswagen bus selling scratchy cl
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 28, 2015
Health & Medicine
If you've purchased any Cilantro recently, you might want to make sure it's not imported from the Mexican state of Puebl
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 28, 2015
Neuroscience
Brain waves have multiple rhythms that come together as needed but then go back to their own frequencies to address thei
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 28, 2015
Plants & Animals
Every so often, things happen in nature that come off as unfortunate for infant animals as they're born. In the case of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 27, 2015
Plants & Animals
Imagine you're on a beach in the Pacific, snorkeling and you come upon a sea slug. Gross, right? Sea slugs are nasty, sl
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 24, 2015
Microbiology
Antibiotics keep farm animals healthy and promote their growth, but excessive antibiotic use no doubt contributes to ant
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUL 24, 2015
Plants & Animals
According to the CDC, non-typhoidal Salmonella causes over 1 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations, 450 deaths, and
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUL 24, 2015
Plants & Animals
Planes, trains and automobiles. That's pretty much how travelers get around, but with the global economy expanding the w
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 23, 2015
Videos
While most people think of hundreds of acres of scorched Earth, thick clouds of smoke and fleeing animals when a forest
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 21, 2015
Health & Medicine
The use of donkey milk dates back to 460-370 B.C. when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, reportedly would prescribe d
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUL 20, 2015
Plants & Animals
While grizzly bears and black bears hibernate through long winters, the opposite was thought to be true for polar bears.
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 19, 2015
Neuroscience
Using light to remotely activate drugs could be the next big thing in treating pain, depression, epilepsy and other neur
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 17, 2015
Plants & Animals
Platydemus manokwari. Doesn't that sound like some creature out of an old horror movie? Something that oozed out of a po
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim