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It is rare to find someone excelling in so many sports and even representing the country in a prestigious event like the Olympics. One such person was Mildred Ella ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias.An American athlete, superstar in golf, baseball, basketball, and track and field, Babe Didrikson secured two gold medals for the United States in the 1932 Summer Olympic Games. Regarded as the best female athlete of all time, she became an inspiration to many female athletes of this generation....

do cats have nine lives woman lying on a couch reaching towards her orange and white cat Credit: Jamie Grill / Getty Cats always land on their feet. Curiosity killed the cat. Cats have nine lives. A lot can be said about a kitty’s lifespan, but these musings are pretty contradictory. Most cat owners have likely found their feline friends in a compromising position miraculously come out on top through masterful contortions....

Whether they are reed instruments, members of the clarinet family, or flutes, all these instruments produce sound by the same principle!These instruments are known as woodwinds simply because wood and wind are involved in the production of the musical sounds that escapes these instruments. Woodwinds, such as flutes, have existed in places, such as South America and Europe, since ancient times.The sound produced through such instruments is pleasant, and they are not very hard to play....

The blue grosbeak Passerina caerulea is a beautiful and small bird native to North American regions as well as southern parts of America and parts of Central America like northern Mexico. It’s a bird that is closely associated with old fields and woodland edges. The blue grosbeak was named for its large beak and the fact that they are blue in plumage. The females of the species are different in color....

Caihong juji is a tiny, bird-like rainbow dinosaur that existed during the Jurassic era in what is now China. This dinosaur was approximately the size of a duck and had a bony crest on its head as well as long, ribbon-like feathers. Micro structures in the nearly complete fossil discovered in Hebei Province revealed that it had iridescent feathers, especially on its head, neck, and breast, with colors that shimmered and changed in the light....

The chipmunk (Tamias striatus) is a rodent member of the squirrel family. They are small furry animals with black, white, and red-brown stripes extending from their head to their tail and are mostly found in North American woods. Their diet includes berries, nuts, and seeds, but they also eat insects and bird eggs.They like to live hidden in chipmunk holes called their ‘den’, where they store their food for the winter and some chipmunks hibernate here throughout the winter....

The dark-fronted babbler (Dumetia atriceps) is a species in the group of Old World babblers found in India and Sri Lanka. Old World babblers are a family of passerine birds having soft and fluffy plumage. They are only found in tropical areas, with the most population and variety in southeast Asia. The dark-fronted babbler is a resident breeding bird in the Western Ghats of Southern India and also Sri Lanka. The birds are always found in groups and flocks in the undergrowth of dense forest and bamboo jungle....

The Dutch Shepherd breed is a breed of very good search and rescue mission dogs. This beautiful dog has three variations, long-haired, rough-haired (famously known as wire-haired), and short-haired. This breed is found in either a silver brindle or golden brindle color, but the silver brindle color haired variety is very rare. They can be found on countryside farms maintaining flocks of sheep, keeping hens away from the kitchen, and even herding cows together for milking, but these dogs are also popular domestic pets that are commonly found living in humans’ homes....

The Florida scrub jay, as the name suggests, is endemic to Florida (mostly central Florida). They are found in sandy oak scrub and scrubby flatwoods.These North American birds are social and territorial. During the nesting period, young birds help protect the nest and feed the babies, and they do this until they get their own territory. They are omnivores, and acorns form an important part of their diet. They hop on the ground to find acorns and bury them in the ground to eat later....

The golden tree snake, Chrysopelea ornata, is a part of the largest family of snakes Colubridae found both in the south and southeast Asia. The golden tree snakes have various different names in English like gliding snake, ornate flying snake, golden flying snake, gold and black tree snake, and flying tree snake. The Thai name for this species is งูเขียวดอกหมาก (Ngoo kee-ow dork maak). And in India, this species is known as Kaalnagini....

There are more than 4000 known jumping spiders in the world, 300 of which are found in the United States and Canada. Green jumping spiders are one among the same family. Their scientific name is Mopsus mormon. They are also popularly called the northern green jumping spider. These jumping spiders are seen in New Guinea and Australia.Jumping spiders are primarily carnivorous beings and consume insects and other smaller spiders. Female green jumping spiders are bigger in size as compared to male jumping spiders....

The green kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) belongs to the family Alcedinidae. This bird is found in the southern part of Texas in the United States. It is found in certain parts of south and central America and also central parts of Argentina. The habitat of the green kingfisher consists of the river bank, deep rivers, woodland streams, lakes, marshes, forest pools, coastal lagoons, mangroves, coastal waters, and rocky watercourses. They generally inhabit open areas or regions....

How do you pronounce ‘Haplocanthosaurus’? The pronunciation of the dinosaur’s name seems to be a bit difficult but we are here to make it a little easier for kids. We are going to tell you a simple trick that can be applied to the pronunciation of all the names, be it dinosaurs, animals, places, and many other things. You just have to break the whole term into several syllables like ‘hap-loe-kan-foe-sore-us’ to make it less complicated....

The Kryptops dinosaur, also known as Kryptops palaios, was a a basal abelisaurid. This dinosaur used to inhabit present-day Africa. The fossils of this species (Kryptops palaios) were found in the Gadaufaoua region in the Western Tenere desert in the Elrhaz Formation. The Kryptops used to live in deserts. It is from the Early Cretaceous period and from the discovered Kryptops fossil, we know that this dinosaur lived from 125 million years ago to 100....

Northern shoveler birds are usually seen foraging with their head down in shallow wetlands. Many of these ducks, due to their flat beaks, strain food particles from the water. They have often been seen swimming and straining food particles from the muddy soup of shallow waters.Both males and females have different patterns and colorings. The male duck is said to have white breasts, an iridescent green head, and chestnut-brown flanks. The female bird mainly has a pattern of buffs and brown feathers....

A female peafowl is known as a peahen, they have greyish-brown color feathers, a greenish slender neck, and iridescent eyes. A female peafowl has a crest on top of its head and has greenish plumage on its slender neck. A male peafowl is known as a peacock, males are often considered to be more beautiful than peahens, due to their colorful feathers.The peahen’s origin is in the Indian subcontinent but the peafowl has been introduced to the rest of the world by humans, and now they can be found all over the world (anywhere with a dry climate with a high enough temperature)....

Protarchaeopteryx (first Archaeopteryx) is a genus of Theropod dinosaurs from China, and lived during the Early Cretaceous period. Protarchaeopteryx had feathers but was flightless, and it had long legs, which possibly made it a good runner. The bones were hollow and bird-like, and it had a wishbone just like a turkey! Around 3.3 ft (1 m) in length, it also had features such as symmetrical feathers on its tail similar to a feathered brush....

Do you know why the seahorse (Hippocampus) is one of the most striking animals found underwater? Well, this marine fish with a head and neck resembling a horse, an upright posture, a brood pouch like a kangaroo, a segmented bony armor, and a curved, prehensile tail, indeed stands out from the conventional imagery we have of a ‘fish.‘Currently, with around 47 seahorse species found in the tropical and temperate waters across the world, these unique vertebrates (those with a vertebral column) of the animal kingdom are a treat to the eyes!...

The sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) is an important link and case study for one of our gravest diseases, AIDS, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus. These Old World monkeys originate in West Africa and are currently found in the Taï National Park of the Côte d’Ivoire region and Guinea Bissau. These monkeys belong to the genus Cercocebus, which contains other mangabey species like the white-naped mangabey and the white-collared mangabey.Sooty mangabeys live in groups containing 70-120 individuals in multi-male or multi-female groups and have various calls for social interactions....

Xenacanthus Decheni is a type of shark that is only existent in contemporary times as fossils and remains on the floors of rivers, seas, and oceans. This species of shark is a prehistoric species that was known to exist in the later Devonian period or time to the end of the Triassic period and is known to be the first observed species of freshwater sharks. This freshwater species of shark resembled an eel due to the way it swam, and it wasn’t even as large as we know other species of sharks, even in the modern-day, to be....