10 quick facts on Octopuses:
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Sunday, 9 September 2012
Monday, 3 September 2012
Saturday, 1 September 2012
DYK #23: DYK Detectives!
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C'mon fellow DYKer's, it's time to put you super-sleuth caps on. Guess which fingerprint (denoted by alphabets) correspond to which being. Answer in comments! Let's see how many are you and your friends able to get right!
Clue after the jump.
Saturday, 11 August 2012
Monday, 30 July 2012
DYK #4: The criminal Koala
Even though humans are known to be known closely related to chimps, gorillas and monkeys, koala bears have identical fingerprints to the former.
It's not just that human fingerprints are roughly similar to koalas - they really are identical. A trained expert would have trouble telling human and koala fingerprints apart, even using a microscope. You can see a comparison of koala and human fingerprints on the left. While the two look quite similar in the larger view, it's under the even higher resolution of an electron microscope that they really look pretty much indistinguishable.
Source: http://io9.com/5798400/koalas-have-exactly-the-same-fingerprints-as-humans
Verification: http://naturalscience.com/ns/articles/01-04/ns_hll.html
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