There is no specific reason. Everything indicates that the very evolution of the species is responsible for the profusion of colors on the face and buttocks of mandrills, a group of baboons found only in the tropical forests of African…
QUESTION Cristiano Sales, Fatima do Sul, MS – (Ricardo Sanches/) – (Ricardo Sanches/) pawsThe thorax is divided into three rigid chitinous segments, each with a pair of legs. In many butterflies, the first pair is so tiny that it looks…
Such delicacies are traditional in eastern countries. In Brazil, there is no specific regulation on consumption, but there are those who say that it is an environmental crime. Would you dare to try it? Check arguments for and against Yes…
Here, there is no unified special force like in the United States, but several groups are trained to act in risky situations. Most are concentrated in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, states that have better equipped police forces and…
ILLUSTRATES Rafael Sica QUESTION Yasmin Lima, Florianopolis, SC No one dies because of the stench itself. But many substances with an unpleasant odor can be fatal due to the biochemical reactions they cause in our body. This is the case…
Skull Biblical reports indicate that, since antiquity, the Middle East already suffered from this deadly disease, whose name comes from the dark blisters that it causes to appear on the skin. The famous medieval outbreak of the Black Death would…
»> No one knows for sure how the habit came about, but experts say it was part of Greek culture 4,000 years ago. One of the possible explanations would be the fact that the ancient Greeks believed that noise drove…
No and yes. From the 1st World War (1914-1918) there was no one left. From the 2nd War (1939-1945), however, around 5.2 million former participants still live. The last survivor of the first conflict, the British Florence Green, died at…
No, this story that elephants would have a kind of sanctuary, a quiet place to which they would go before dying, is just a legend. There are several theories for the origin of the myth. The most accepted was prepared…
Every toilet – let’s talk beautiful, every toilet – depends on two basic components to rinse our stamped porcelain. The first is the siphon – a curved tube that controls the water level in the vase, preventing it from drying…