Unlikely as it may seem, man’s deadliest adversary from the animal kingdom is the tiny mosquito. They are estimated to kill up to 1 million people every year throughout the tropical regions of the world. The victims die after being bitten by the insect, which can transmit such deadly diseases as malaria, dengue fever, Zika…
Most experts agree that humans first appeared on Earth around 6 million years ago. It was not until the turn of the 19th century that the world’s population reached 1 billion. Fast forward a little over 200 years to the present day and we now have more than 8 billion people on the planet. In…
Hummingbirds – Origins, Species and Range Experts believe that early species of hummingbird began to diverge from their “swift” ancestors more than 40 million years ago. Originating in Europe and Asia, they gradually migrated west to the Americas as they followed a food trail across the globe. The lineage of all modern-day species of hummingbird…
Most of us know that the ostrich is the world’s largest and heaviest extant bird species. The long-necked bird can grow up to 9 ft (2.7 m) tall and weigh up to 320 lb (145 kg). Native to Africa, the ostrich lives in wide open arid and semi-arid habitats. Their range stretches from the southern…
The High-life You might well know that the small island nations of Tuvalu, the Maldives, the Marshall Islands and Kiribati have an average elevation of 2 m or less above sea level. This obviously makes them the lowest-lying nations on the planet. On the contrary you might not know those countries whose populations are literally…
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