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  • Space
  • Extraterrestrial life
  • Technology
  • VR
  • Robots, Drones
  • Renewable Energy
  • Elon Musk, SpaceX
  • Astronauts
  • Scientists – Tesla, Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Faraday, Archimedes Aristotle, Da Vinci

Life, Biology

  • Animals, Species
  • Evolution
  • Hoaxes, Cryptids/Mythical
  • Ocean Life, Mariana Trench

Exploration, The World

  • Explorers – Sir Francis Drake, Christopher Columbus, James Cook, Marco Polo, Lewis and Clark
  • Exploration, trade, colonisation
  • Maps/Geography
  • Extremes, climates, weather
  • Survival

 

Species & Evolution

Evolution is the change in heritable characteristics of living things over successive generations.

Natural Selection

A scientific theory formulated by Charles Darwin, published in his book On the Origin of Species.

It is the key mechanism of evolution. The differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in characteristics and traits.

 

Hoaxes and Cryptozoology

The Fiji mermaid, an object comprising the torso and head of a juvenile monkey sewn to the back half of a fish. It was often presented as the mummified body of a creature that was supposedly half mammal and half fish.

Loch Ness Monster – The Surgeon’s Photo (1934)

Colonel Robert Wilson came forward with a picture that appeared to show a sea serpent rising out of the water of Loch Ness.

Bigfoot/Sasquatch and Yeti/The Abominable Snowman…