The primate pan paniscus, also known as bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, is one of the last of the Great Apes, and was completely unknown to scientists until just seventy-five years ago. Before the day in 1929 when the true identity of its skull was found out, it sat in a Belgium museum, thought to have ...

The common name is the African Elephant, the scientific name is Loxodonta Africana, the phylum is Vertebrata, the class is Mammalia, the order is Proboscidea, and the family is Elephantidae. The Closest Relatives to the African Elephant are: the Asian Elephant, mammoths, primitive proboscidean...

Desertification What exactly is desertification? Unfortunately, there are many responses and many contradicting definitions. Some say that it is permanent, others say it is a reversible process. There are even debates on whether the definition should include human involvement or not. It seems...

"Jimmy, let's see if you know the creatures of the rainforest. What sound does this one make?" "RRRRRRRRRR" "That's right, a chainsaw goes RRRRRRRRR." A simple cartoon in a magazine, that's all people see it as. There is constantly talk about the en...

'THE LUCKY COUNTRY' Australia is 'A' lucky country but it not necessarily 'The' lucky county. Australia is one of the luckiest countries in the world but it is not justified say we are the luckiest because it is by no means perfect in any way. Australia like...

Transatlantic Slave Trade From the 1520s to the 1860s an estimated 11 to 12 million African men, women, and children were forcibly embarked on European vessels for a life of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Many more Africans were captured or purchased in the interior of the continent but a la...

1. The Sahara desert covers an area larger than the lower 48 states and at over 3100 miles wide it is a little wider than the furthest distance between Maine and California. From west to east it stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and from north to south from the Atlas Mountains of Mor...