Thursday, January 22, 2015

cute penguins, cute penguins
Penguins are flightless birds that have adapted to a more aquatic lifestyle proof of this being that they spend half of their life in the frozen waters of the southern hemisphere. Something that most people don't know about penguins is that they are one of the most ancient still existing birds to date, the oldest penguin species, the Waimanu manneringi, lived 4 million years after the dinosaurs and more then 50 million years before the earliest close relatives of modern humans.  




Godzilla is an iconic monster in films. His name in japanese is a portmanteau of the words gorrila and whale, which is what his original design was mean't to resemble. The first Godzilla movie was actually mean't to be a straight up horror movie because Godzilla himself was a metaphor for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Godzilla was created using a man in a suit instead of stop-motion animation like the King Kong movie had done previously.