Animals

What is Vermiculture? How can you prepare Vermicompost?

Vermiculture is the artificial rearing or cultivation of earthworms. It is a scientific process to produce earthworms in large numbers.

Animals · Biology

11 Amazing facts about Butterflies.

Nature has created many beautiful masterpieces, but a butterfly is the most beautiful and colorful masterpiece. The vivid colors of butterfly wings are so life like that sometimes people call them "flying flowers". Do you know, butterflies live everywhere in the world, except Antarctica. Here we have some other amazing facts about butterflies that may surprise you.

Animals

Mesozoic Era – the Age of Reptiles.

The Mesozoic Era spans from about 252 million years ago to about 66 million years ago that means it began roughly around the time of the end-Permian extinction. The amphibians were declining after a long period of supremacy among the animals and the reptiles were gradually replacing them. Many of them became very large fearsome and came to dominate the animal life practically everywhere and spread into all habitats. For this reason, the Mesozoic era is also called the Age of Reptiles or the Age of Dinosaurs.

Animals · Plants

Why is the Two-Kingdom Classification System Inadequate?

We can easily distinguish a living animal from a living plant in our surroundings. So, to keep it as simple as it was, Carolus Linnaeus classified all the organisms of the world into two Kingdoms i.e. Plantae and Animalia. But the grouping of such diverse organisms into only two kingdoms was not satisfactory to many biologists of that time.