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Some Interesting Science Facts: Fact 1 60-65 Million Years Ago Dolphins and Humans Had A Common Ancestor

Humans are more closely related to dolphins than apes based on several physical traits like body hair, brain size, and ability to swim. Elephants can swim efficiently using their trunks as snorkels to breathe while moving all four legs. Light from the sun's surface takes approximately 8 minutes and 17 seconds to reach Earth, though photons take much longer to travel from the sun's core to its surface.

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Some Interesting Science Facts: Fact 1 60-65 Million Years Ago Dolphins and Humans Had A Common Ancestor

Humans are more closely related to dolphins than apes based on several physical traits like body hair, brain size, and ability to swim. Elephants can swim efficiently using their trunks as snorkels to breathe while moving all four legs. Light from the sun's surface takes approximately 8 minutes and 17 seconds to reach Earth, though photons take much longer to travel from the sun's core to its surface.

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SOME INTERESTING SCIENCE FACTS

FACT 1
60-65 million years ago Dolphins and
Humans had a common ancestor:
Mounting evidence suggests that humans are more closely
related to dolphins, far more than they are related to apes.
Some of the arguments linking this relationship between
humans and dolphins, more than between in humans and apes
include minimal body hair, mating habits, large brain,
expanded neocortex, fatty layer beneath skin (lacking in
apes but present in dolphins), liking for water (human babies
can swim before they learn to walk) as well as a diving
complex (a trait not found in apes), humans perspire when
exposed to heat (apes do not), humans shed tears unlike
apes and a lot more.
FACT 2
Elephants can swim in water by using
their trunk to breathe:

Like all mammals (except humans and apes, who have to


learn how to swim), elephants are very good untiring
swimmers. Elephants move all four legs to swim and are
able to move quite fast like that. Their big body
provides enough floatation while the trunk acts like a
snorkel.
FACT 3

It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for the


light to travel from the sun's surface to
the earth:
Light travels from Sun to Earth in about 8 minutes and 19
seconds. While it takes only 8 minutes and 19 seconds for
the light from the surface of the sun to reach us, it actually
takes about 10,000 - 1,70,000 years for a photon to travel
from the core of the sun to the surface.

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