The peanut of the Madagascar lizard

About 88 million years ago, Madagascar separated from India. Isolated from all other masses of land, plants and animals evolved in seclusion, creating a biodiversity access point unlike any other place on earth. A way in which biodiversity is propagated is by endozochorywhich is the name of the process for animals that eat plant seeds…

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Cheese before bed could be giving nightmares

For more than a century, folklore and cartoons have warned us: eat cheese before bedtime and awaits you a strange night. Winsor McCay’s 1904 comic strip RAREBIT’s demon dream Famous converted the forst of spicy cheese called Galeses Rarebit into a portal for surreal and disturbing dreams. Now, a new study suggests that McCay could…

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