Natural, Scientific and Medical Wonders

While I drive my two wheeler at night time, I often see two bright spots move away across the roads. Now I know what it is; but i...

I had wondered in my childhood about the straight lines found on the muddy soil: it was raining the previous eve...

In my school days, I have heard my elders tell stories about mongoose apart from that popular story, ' Riki-Tikki-Tavi .' One o...

In school days, I found often shells of snails stuck to the stems of bushy plants. I thought they are the shells of dead snails. Then,...

Yes, snake's venom can save a person from diseases such as Diabetes mellitus ! After venom is secreted in venom glands and it rem...

In childhood, we used to talk about the exciting stories that we heard - like that of snakes and ghosts. Out of the snake stories there...

As school kids, we wondered about an animal that lives in water. We imagined it then as a buffalo lying in tank and taking bath. It is ...

In my childhood days I was warned about a slithering lizard inhabiting wastelands. It is still believed that its presence means that there i...

We see ants, termites and bees live a social life sharing tasks among themselves. But a mammal too leads such a eusocial life! It is the ...

In boyhood days I wondered how the Slender Loris lives with its slow movements. Later on, I viewed an animal that was more sluggish than...

We usually see that from egg caterpillar comes out, butterfly grows out of it and fly away. But in a type of Salamander (an Amphibian) ...

In books of comics, mermaids were shown as heroines/princesses of the tales. Mermaids have a female human body and a fish tail instea...

I had wondered in my childhood how an elephant could digest the contents of a fruit without breaking its hard shell. My sisters had infor...

One day I was walking barefooted on the cellar of the house. I felt a pinching pain on one of my toes. I found a vermin move away from my...

The word, camouflage was introduced to me when I joined N.C.C. (National Cadet Corps) at school. Then the ways of camouflaging practice...

We, the human beings, are the medium-sized member in the Mammal group of this world . We bear in our body the smallest bone that measure...

We call turncoats as ' Chameleons ' ('Pacshondhi' in Tamil), comparing their changing character! Though this Common Chame...

In Nature everything is happening with an inner meaning or intention. It may look absurd and dirty. But in animals it is done for goodne...

For any living animal Oxygen is the basic requirement. Without Oxygen there will be no life in it. Recently there was a news about the d...

We have seen about parental care towards young ones in earlier blog posts. Now a frog shows it here. It is the Marsupial Frog (Gastrothe...