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"One type of butterfly, the
Morpho rhetenor has an astonishingly impressive blue colour it gets, not
from pigments, but from light being broken up by tiny prisms
on its wing scales. At rest, only the underside of its wings are seen and
are brown with eyespots for disguise."....Focus
Magazine, December, 1999.
Another type of butterfly,
the Papillo palinurus is the only butterfly to make its hues
entirely mechanically. Is the Creator throwin'
us a curve again! This remarkable butterfly bounces light around in
microscopic bowl shaped crevices in its wings. This makes the butterfly
appear a lush green color.
According to Peter Vukusic,
team head at Exeter University investigating this phenomenon in.Nature
Magazine, volume 404, page 457, as reported in.New
Scientist Magazine.(newscientist.com),
April 1, 2000."From
the flat centre of each bowl, you get yellow light reflected and from the
sloping sides you get blue reflectivity."..
The Hedyloidea nocturnal
butterfly has ears on its wing.
Jayne Yack of Carleton University,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, says "The general
feeling is that butterflies as we know them were once more moth like and
at some point they moved 'into the day'. What we don't know is what caused
them to move into the day". Hey Jayne? The
Creator did it the way He wanted to and that, right from the get go!
The incredible journey of
the
Monarch butterfly poses heretofore
unanswerable questions for anyone leaving the Creator out of the picture.
Butterflies start out as
lowly caterpillars, perhaps similar to humans starting out on Earth with
their ordinary consciousness way of gaining information, but like the caterpillars
which change into glorious butterflies and come out of their cocoon,
humans too are on the road of change into a higher consciousness.
The largest butterflies are
the birdwings of Melanesia that have
wingspans up to 10 inches.(25
centimeters).and
the pygmy blues are the smallest having a 3/8 of an inch.(1
cm).wingspread.
Butterflies and moths undergo
complete metamorphosis.
Their life cycle consists of four stages: egg, larva.(caterpillar
stage), pupa.(cocoon
or chrysalis).and
adult.
And,
the
hawk moth is really different!
Duckbilled Platypus:.Where
does evolution explain the process by which the male duck billed platypus
retains a venomous spur in its rear ankle, yet the female loses her spur
in the first year? Why this is produced and then disappears in the first
year is another conundrum
for evolution.
Dragonflies:.A
dragonfly comes from the water bug and after its metamorphosing,
it breathes air! It can travel at over 60 miles an hour.(100
kilometers an hour).
Dragonflies are examples
of remarkable
aerodynamical
design, long having puzzled scientists in just how it is that they
keep aloft. Recent
research shows how important the air is to a dragonfly's wing. To a dragonfly's
wing, the air is viscous,
enabling its fluttering
wings to create whirlwinds
to help hover
and fly. The inertia.of
air molecules
creates a significant force that enables dragonflies to get lift, thrust
to turn and to maneuver.
Jane Wang, physicist at Cornell
University, New York state, who is using a computer model to simulate the
airflow around dragonfly wings, reported his findings at the American Physical
Society in Minneapolis late March, 2000. ...New Scientist Magazine.(newscientist.com),
April 1, 2000.
Some species of dragonflies
only come out at night. How did this first type of dragonfly know to come
out only when blackbirds and thrushes wouldn't be around to prey on it?
And why don't all dragonflies do the same? Others survive in the daylight.
Feathers:."The
whole constitution and design
of feathers seems to be extraordinarily cunning.
On feathers, the keratin
molecule has been made stiffer by cross linking the molecular chains with
sulfur atoms."....James
E. Gordon, Professor Emeritus
of Materials Technology at University of Reading,.Structures,
1978, Penguin Books, London, England.
"The central shaft of a feather
has a series of barbs projecting from each side at right
angles. Rows of smaller barbules in turn protude
from both sides of the barbs. Tiny hooks, called barbicels, project downward
from one side of the barbules and interlock with ridges on the opposite
side of adjacent
barbules. In some feathers there may be as many as a million barbules cooperating
to bind the barbs into a complete feather, impervious
to air penetration."....Evolution:
Possible or Impossible?, page 215.
The Papuan
Bird of Paradise. The rare Albino Peacock.
Animal hairs:.The
cuticle.(your
cuticles are the skin at the base of each of your fingernails and usually
are white in color; also are the outer wrapping, outermost layer of the
skin).and
medulla.(inner
core of the hair).show
a wide variety of patterns which differ between hair types and species.
The wool fibers of sheep lack the medulla. In a simple thing like a hair's
structure, we see diverse
yet related parts among its types. Surrounding the medulla
are cortex cells.
Animals have an inner 'clock'
whose ticking away determines when some animals shed.
All mammals possess mammary
glands, but only marsupials.(having
a pouch, like a kangaroo).and
placentals.(having
placenta).have
nipples! Marsupials have a pouch, but lack placenta. Within the pouch is
the nipples. All mammals have a neopallium,
but only the placentals have a connection between the two cerebral hemispheres.(left
and right brain), the corpus
callosum.
The digestive and sexual
systems of marsupials varies. Some ferment foods before being returned
to the intestine. The sexual system of some includes a forked penis, which
fits well with the multiple vaginas of the female.