Tortoises and crocodiles are seemingly immune from biological aging – a phenomenon known as negligible senescence. Unlike humans, who continue to age after reaching maturity – caused by a gradual accumulation of cellular damage, tortoises, can continue to reproduce at very old ages and show few signs of functional decline as they get older. Instead, […]
According to some forty-million-year-old bones that were discovered in Antarctica, penguins used to be over six feet tall and weighed more than 250 pounds.
In Japanese culture, the dream you have on the night of January 1st is believed to predict whether you will have good or bad fortune in the coming year.