Better Brains By Joseph Miller | May 24, 2019 “The human brain is the last and greatest scientific frontier.” -Joel Davis We often think that a large brain correlates with high intelligence. But, we should think again because many mammals have larger brains than humans! Whales, dolphins and elephants have larger brains than people. This …
By Joseph Miller | May 28, 2019 “Octopuses and their relatives (cuttlefish and squid) represent an island of mental complexity in the sea of invertebrate animals.” – Peter Godfrey, 2017. Octopuses belong to a class of marine mollusks called cephalopods. They are soft bodied, eight-limbed organisms that can rapidly alter shape, enabling them to …
By Don Miller | June 2, 2019 These are sand dunes of the Namib Desert in Africa. At ten thousand square miles, Namibian dunes are dwarfed by the Simpson Desert in Australia, which covers 65,000 square miles! The blue whale’s number of molecular requirements for energy and maintenance is over one million times the …