The Crested Rat (Lophiomys imhausi)
The Crested Rat or Maned rat. A rodent that appears to purposefully acquire a deadly toxin in order to poison its unwary victims.
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Electric Eel (Electrophorus electricus)
The Electric Eel is the only known species of freshwater fish that has been known to literally electrocute its prey and enemies. In fact, humans and alligators have been known to succumb to these evolutionary marvels. Electric eels are in fact not eels at all. They are a scaleless freshwater fish. They also need to breathe air every ten
Read moreWe Are All Cousins Within The Grand Tree of Life
Did you know that we are all related? Yes, we are all family. The human genome project has revealed to us long ago that there are no genetically distinct and pure groups of humans. We are all cousins.
Read moreFishapod (Tiktaalik roseae)
One of the major underpinnings of biology is that all life shares a common ancestor. If the scientific theory of evolution is true, we should be able to make predictions about what forms led to the variety of forms we see today. As an example, we can predict that between fish fossils and early land tetrapods, that there should be a transitional
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