Some frogs are regular little drug factories. Their skins produce a wide range of powerful alkaloids, are a large family of chemicals usually produced by plants. Familiar alkaloids include quinine, caffeine and morphine. Different alkaloids have different effects, usually on the nervous system.

Photo: Blue Poison Dart frog (PD)

Love is one of the necessities of life that is both physical and spiritual. While it doesn’t fit with a strictly materialistic view of life, love and touch, or lack of love and touch, can determine our health and sometimes even life and death.

Photo: Parent and baby  - Pixabay.com

Researchers who examine the workings of the basal ganglia of our brain, have concluded that the deep structures of the brain that are supposed to be primitive are actually quite sophisticated.

Image: Basal Ganglia and Related Structures (PD)

Most evolutionists believe that human beings evolved in East Africa – areas now covered by nations such as Tanzania and Kenya. However, cutting tools found in North Africa suggest to some that there had been early migration of hominids from East to North Africa, or that hominids had evolved separately in more than one region.

Image: Collection of stone tools, Public Domain.

There is a particular type of spider found in Singapore that are actually exceptional mothers who carefully looks after her babies.

Image: Toxues Magna, from French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.

Whalebone was used for all sorts of ornaments and structural purposes as a gently bendable, yet firm material. Today it has been replaced by plastics. But it wasn't really bone. It came from the mouth of the whale.

 Image: Whit Wells, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.

What evidence could we provide that would prove to an evolutionist that evolution was false?

Apparently, the late evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane (1892–1964) addressed this question, and his answer was, famously, "Precambrian rabbits".

Image: Chalk layers in Cyprus, Public Domain.

If you look up an animal in an encyclopedia, whether that animal is extant or extinct, you will usually be presented with a cladogram, which looks like a sideways family tree, and it represents the supposed evolutionary descent of the creature.

Image: Kim Alaniz, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, examining yet again the cave drawings at Lascaux, France, determined that these early people understood the precession of the Earth's orbit, and an ancient comet strike.

Image: Prof Saxx, Public Domain, Wikipedia: < https://commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/ File:Lascaux _painting.jpg >.

The red panda has to be one of the world's most attractive animals, with a cute white face and a ginger red body. As its name suggests, it was once thought to be closely related to the giant panda.