IT IS NOT THAT BAD TO DRINK TEA
Scientific studies have shown that tea is abundant in in bioactive plant chemicals that tremendous potential for our health protection.Green tea can protect us from various cancers & can protect our arteries,heart as well can protect cerebral strokes to occur.Tea is reach in tannin which being a very strong antioxidant is active against many forms of cancer.Another tannin calleed theaflavin can lower blood pressure as well.
RAFFLESIA FINALLY FOUND IT'S FAMILY
Scientists have finally identified the family of the largest flower Rafflesia wollfia.This flower was discovered about 180 years ago by east india company officials in sumatran rainforest.The blood red colored rafflesia which smells like a rotten flesh belongs to the same family like castor oil or rubber plant.Rafflesia is a strange plant that doesn't have leaves,roots or stem but leaves as a parasite extracting
nutrients from other plants in the vicinity.It was discovered by Sir Stamford raffles after whom the flower was named.
WHALE ANCESTOR TRACED IN VALLEY
The fossil of a 48 million year old mammal found in kakalkot of jammu & kashmir represent the missing link between whales & their four footed ancestors.The mammal named Indohyus resembles a miniature dear is closest to whales as per iit roorkee researches.The bones of this animal has a thick outer layer almost like a hippopotamus thus strongly establishing the fact further.
AFTER SIX DECADES,A NEW BIRD
An astronomer on vacation has discovered a strikingly colored singing bird,till now unknown bird,in western part of arunachal pradesh.It is the first new bird species from our country in six decades.The bird has been spotted in eaglenest sanctuary in arunachal pradesh,described as having olive plumage with golden yellow & crimson wings with a bright yellow patch in front of the eyes.It is named as Bugun liocichla,after bugun tribe living in the periphery of eaglenest sanctuary.
SHE has become HE
Extreme changes in temperatures,toxicity in food & pollution has resulted in conversion of a female pheasant in lucknow zoo in a male bird.According to vets,one of the ovaries in female birds might have stopped functioning thus disbalancing the hormonal content in their body.In a normal female bird only the left ovary is seen functional but due to infection or any other reasons if it deceases then right ovary becomes active & produces more testosterone resulting in male plumage.
THE TREE MAN-------DEDE
An Indonesian man,dede,whose whole body is covered with extrordinary tree like warty growth have spoken of his survival growth on being treated by an american doctor.Dede now 35,baffled many medical expertswhen warty root like structuresbegan to grow out of his arms & feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident .Sacked from his job & deserted by his wife he was left alone with his two teenage children.According to dermatologists it is a rare case of vitamin A deficiency followed by tremendous infection by human papilloma virus(HPV virus).The virus has hijacked the cellular machinery of his skin cells taking advantage of his weak immune system & formed numerous tree like outgrowths called "cutaneous horns".
EARLIEST ANCESTORS COULD WALK & CLIMB TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scientists exploring a hillside in Ethiopia have announced the discovery of a 3.3 million year old girl incomplete skeleton claimed to be one of the earliest direct ancestors of human beings.Features of the skeleton clearly indicates the evidence of bipedal locomotion & arboreal ability.The skeleton have been classified as Australopithcus afarensis ,a species that used to live between 3 to 3.3 million years ago.Scientists had unearthed the first australopithecus fossil,a female named as LUCY in the same region of Ethiopia in 1974.This fossil used to live 150,000 years before LUCY.
