Animal Eyes

Did you know which large animal kills the most people in Africa? Not the lion, and not the crocodile; it is in fact the hippo. The males are very territorial and will attack anything that enters their area. Females aggressively protect their babies. Hippos have even been known to kill crocodiles.

Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann came up with the cell theory after observing cells for many decades. They determined that all living things are made up of cells, that cells are the basic units of structure, function and physiology, and that living cells can only come from pre-existing cells.

In Greek mythology, Autumn began when Persephone was abducted by Hades to be the Queen of the Underworld. Quite upset, Persephone’s mother, Demeter (the goddess of the harvest), caused all the crops on Earth to wither until her daughter was allowed to return, which was miraculously the beginning of spring.