A blog about curiosities
17 Aug 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.
Two thirds of all the animals described and named according to the taxonomy (the scientific classification of species) are insects. About 40% of the known insects are beetles, which means that this order, an extremely complex grouping of families, re...
8 Aug 2019 1 minute read 3 comments Roberto D.
While it is true that most living things have irregular and above all rounded shapes and are full of curves, there are obvious obvious exceptions. One of these is certainly represented by Haloquadratum, a bacterium belonging to the class of Halobacte...
4 Aug 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.
The term carat, as reported in the vocabulary, derives from the Arabic qirat (twenty-fourth part) which indicated the seeds of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua) and over time has also taken on the meaning of "small weight". The Arabic word in turn d...
3 Aug 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.
Wombats are animals that live in burrows native to Australia, much loved for their soft appearance. But there is perhaps something that is not known about these adorable marsupials: they are the only animals in the world that produce cubic droppings....
2 Aug 2019 1 minute read 4 comments Roberto D.
It's my first article that doesn't talk about cryptocurrencies, I hope you will appreciate Incredible but true: the placid and sleepy cow kills more human beings than the great marine predators, surrounded by an undeserved reputation of ferocious k...
