The Sand-Swimming Skink: Nature's Unique Adaptation
The common skink is a lizard with an extraordinary ability: it can swim through sand.
This remarkable feat is made possible by microscopic spikes on the tips of its scales. These spikes carry electrical charges, allowing the skink to glide more efficiently by pushing aside the sand particles.
Nature never ceases to amaze with its ingenious adaptations, and the skink's sand-swimming ability is a perfect example of evolutionary innovation.
The Sand-Swimming Skink: Nature's Unique Adaptation
The common skink is a lizard with an extraordinary ability: it can swim through sand.
This remarkable feat is made possible by microscopic spikes on the tips of its scales. These spikes carry electrical charges, allowing the skink to glide more efficiently by pushing aside the sand particles.
Nature never ceases to amaze with its ingenious adaptations, and the skink's sand-swimming ability is a perfect example of evolutionary innovation.
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Telegram auto-delete message, expiring invites, and more
elegram is updating its messaging app with options for auto-deleting messages, expiring invite links, and new unlimited groups, the company shared in a blog post. Much like Signal, Telegram received a burst of new users in the confusion over WhatsApp’s privacy policy and now the company is adopting features that were already part of its competitors’ apps, features which offer more security and privacy. Auto-deleting messages were already possible in Telegram’s encrypted Secret Chats, but this new update for iOS and Android adds the option to make messages disappear in any kind of chat. Auto-delete can be enabled inside of chats, and set to delete either 24 hours or seven days after messages are sent. Auto-delete won’t remove every message though; if a message was sent before the feature was turned on, it’ll stick around. Telegram’s competitors have had similar features: WhatsApp introduced a feature in 2020 and Signal has had disappearing messages since at least 2016.
