Surprises in the classification of living organisms 5 (Termites and Cockroaches)
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
QUICK. What is the commonality among praying mantises, cockroaches, and termites?
They all have the same egg casing, called the ootheca....
Surprises in the classification of living organisms, 4 (Animals and Fungi) (Part 2)
YOUâVE probably guessed this next statement. Yes, the cell walls of fungi contain chitin.
A more convincing evidence is that primitive fungal spores possess flagella....
Surprises in the classification of living organisms, 4 (Animals and Fungi)
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
(Part 1)
AS PREVIOUSLY noted, for centuries the traditional way of classifying things in nature was to divide them into three...
Surprises in the classification of living organisms, 5 (Or Why Killing Dolphins is Murder)
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
TO BE brief, the discovery of fossils of the species pakicetus in 1979 began the first serious turnabout of the...
Surprises in the classification of living organisms, 4 (Or Why Killing Dolphins is Murder)
TO CONTINUE, since carnivores need only one stomach in order to digest meat (we include not only the meat of mammals and birds but...
Surprises in the classification of living organisms, 3 (Or Why Killing Dolphins is Murder)
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
ITâS ALMOST instinctive to classify such mammals as camels, pigs, hippopotamuses, and ruminants (deer and bovids such as cows, carabaos,...
Surprises in the classification of living organisms, 2
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
MOST biologists would say that a thing is deemed a living organism if it metabolizes, reproduces, and mutates.
There is a...
Surprises in the classification of living organisms
FOR CENTURIES, the traditional way of classifying things in nature was to divide them into three âKingdomsâ â namely animal, plant, and mineral.
Though this...
Nuke disaster survivors, 2
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
AFTER the initial termination of Chernobylâs mammals, wildlife from adjacent areas immigrated in, or got introduced. These and their offspring...
Nuke disaster survivors, 1
BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO
THE WORST nuclear power plant accident in history was the Chernobyl disaster.
In 1986, Chernobylâs reactor No. 4 underwent an explosion...