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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...
Centuries ago, people in warmer parts of the earth believed that a dread disease was contracted from unhealthy air generated in swamps. From this belief came the word "malaria," which means "bad air". The word is still used to describe a parasitic disease that remains one of the world's major public health problems.
Scavengers of dead plant material include termites that build nests in grasslands and then collect dead plant material for consumption within the nest. The interaction between scavenging animals and humans is seen today most commonly in suburban settings with animals such as opossums, polecats and raccoons. In some African towns and villages ...
Somewhere in space, Kris' shuttle is overrun with vegetation, and she is almost dying from thirst. The shuttle docks on a massive spaceship, and masked robed figures come aboard. The figures find a baby Levi that had found their way onto the shuttle when Kris allowed Barry to take one of the glowing flowers.
The following are lists of episodes from the Cosmos series: List of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage episodes , which first aired in 1980. List of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey episodes , which first aired in 2014.
The word "Clanger" is said to derive from the sound made by opening the metal cover of one of the creatures' crater-like burrows, each of which was covered with an old metal dustbin lid, to protect against meteorite impacts (and space debris). In each episode there would be some problem to solve, typically concerning something invented or ...
Cannibalism was a routine funerary practice in Europe about 15,000 years ago, with people eating their dead not out of necessity but rather as part of their culture, according to a new study.
Horizon is a current and long-running BBC popular science and philosophy documentary programme. Series one was broadcast in 1964 and as of July 2020 it is in its 56th series. . Over 1,250 episodes have been broadcast (including specials) with an average of 23 episodes per series during the 56-year