What do these animals have in common: chipmunks, ground squirrels, echidnas, possums, hedgehogs, hamsters, skunks, bats, prairie dogs, marmots, and badgers? Answer: they all hibernate. This means they endure cold temperatures by sleeping through them. Ground squirrels and woodchucks are true hibernators. When the winter comes, their body temperature and heart rate drop to the [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Eels
For 13 years we lived in New Brunswick, Canada just off of the St. John River that flows into the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean. Every April the water in our bay would rise several feet as the snows melted. At that time we could count on fishermen setting up several eel traps [...]
Clams
One of the necessary doctrines of evolution is the denial of a world catastrophe such as the flood of Noah. This is because such a disaster would obviously cause the earth to appear to be much older than it is. Without a very old world, there is insufficient time for evolution to occur here. Clam [...]
Diatomaceous Earth
Though some 200 species of diatoms exist today, an estimated 100,000 species are extinct, known only by their fossil remains. “Diatoms are a widespread group and can be found in the oceans, in freshwater, in soils and on damp surfaces. . . . They are especially important in oceans, where they are estimated to contribute [...]