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1 day ago · Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence. They include animals such as cetaceans ( whales, dolphins and porpoises ), pinnipeds ( seals, sea lions and walruses ), sirenians ( manatees and dugongs ), sea otters and polar bears. They are an informal group, unified only by their reliance on marine ...
1 day ago · In pictures: Residents evacuated from Vovchansk In Vovchansk, Ukrainian officials have been helping civilians evacuate due to the heavy shelling. The border town in the Kharkiv region came under ...
1 day ago · 53.4 m (175 ft) (1960) [3] The Aral Sea ( / ˈærəl /) [4] [a] was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s. It was in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan.
- North: 8.7 m (29 ft) (2014), South: 14–15 m (46–49 ft) (2005)
- North: 27 km³ (6 cu mi) (2007)
- North: 42 m (138 ft) (2011), South: 29 m (95 ft) (2007), 53.4 m (175 ft) (1960)
1 day ago · Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates. Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches. In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death.
- 619,000 (2021)
- Fever, vomiting, headache, yellow skin
1 day ago · Venus of Hohle Fels, Germany, oldest known sculpture of a human being, 42.000–40.000 BP Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE, Capitoline Museums, Rome Assyrian lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, c. 800 –721 BCE Michelangelo's Moses, (c. 1513–1515), San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb of Pope Julius II Netsuke ...
1 day ago · t. e. The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and ...
