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Cochineal Order: Hemiptera Family: Dactylopiidae Genus: Dactylopius Species: D. coccus Is cockroach blood purple? The circulatory system in cockroaches is open type. The colour of… Read More »What Bug Has Purple Blood?

Astronomers have discovered what may be the oldest and most distant galaxy ever observed. The galaxy, called HD1, dates from a bit more than 300… Read More »What’S The Oldest Thing In The Universe?

A shrew-like creature that lived 225 million years ago is the oldest mammal ever identified. Illustration of Brasilodon quadrangularis, the 225 million-year-old mammal. Sign up… Read More »What Is The Oldest Mammal?

Earth’s first big predatory monster was a giant underwater scorpion that reigned in the ocean almost half a billion years ago, well before the dinosaurs,… Read More »What Is The Oldest Predator On Earth?

While a similar length, the Megalodon had a much more robust body and huge jaws built for devouring whales and other large marine mammals. A… Read More »What Would Win Megalodon Or Mosasaurus?

Ever since researchers sequenced the chimp genome in 2005, they have known that humans share about 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees, making them our… Read More »What Animals Have The Same Dna As Humans?

Based on an examination of our DNA, any two human beings are 99.9 percent identical. The genetic differences between different groups of human beings are… Read More »Can Two Humans Have The Same Dna?

How many mass extinctions have there been? Five great mass extinctions have changed the face of life on Earth. We know what caused some of… Read More »How Many Times Has Earth Been Wiped Out?

In the last half-billion years, life on Earth has been nearly wiped out five times—by such things as climate change, an intense ice age, volcanoes,… Read More »How Many Times Has Earth Been Destroyed?