Sharon Parry

1 week ago | a-z-animals.com | Sharon Parry

It’s time to dust off your resume because your ideal job has finally been created! In this adorable Instagram post by panda__reels__, you can see people cuddling pandas, rocking them like newborn babies. But this isn’t artificial intelligence, this is a real job — panda cuddler — carried out by real people who are paid real money to do it. In short, it’s a dream job only a select few will ever experience. Here we will research what must be one of the best career choices on the planet.

1 week ago | a-z-animals.com | Sharon Parry

According to the latest statistics from the American Veterinary Medical Association, there are 59.8 million dog-owning households in the U.S.A. That’s a whopping 45.5 percent of all American households. The figures are also impressive for cats. Overall, 32.1 percent of American households own a cat, which adds up to 42.2 million homes. Yet, a lot of what we think we know about dogs and cats is hearsay, myth, or old wives’ tales. We want to address this by injecting some science into the situation.

2 weeks ago | a-z-animals.com | Sharon Parry

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and followed by the Cretaceous Period. It was a time of significant changes for life on Earth, including the extinction of some species and the diversification of others. Here, we will explore what the Earth was like at this time, the plants and animals that existed, and the extinction events that they endured.

2 weeks ago | a-z-animals.com | Sharon Parry

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single extinction event or a series of catastrophic changes? Exactly which animals were affected? Here, we will look at the animals that lived on the Earth during one particular geological time: the Mesozoic Era.

3 weeks ago | a-z-animals.com | Sharon Parry

Despite decades of research, scientists admit that they still have a lot to learn about sleep. In general, sleep can be defined as a period of reduced activity that is relatively easy to reverse. Hibernation, therefore, is not sleep because it takes a long time to reverse the hibernation state. Studies on humans have revealed that when people are asleep, they experience physiological changes to their brains, changes in body temperature, and changes in cardiovascular and respiratory activity.