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Babatunde40:
Post your Bachelors here from anywhere let me see. If your CGPA manage to reach 3.5, I will give you N100,000 now now. All these failures will be arguing with those who have passed them

I don't need to brag with anything. I'm not like the others. I don't know u and u don't know me, so i won't say I'm better than you. Only failures brag

The word animal derives from a Latin word for a "breath" or "soul," anima. Although it first appeared in English in the late 14th century, it remained fairly uncommon until the 1600s, when its use as a replacement for the older word beast—which once referred to any living creature, but today has wilder, more ferocious connotations—won out. Beast, in turn, was adopted into English from French sometime around the early 1200s. But just as it was eventually superseded by animal, beast itself took over from deer, which was used fairly loosely in Old English to refer to any wild animal.

Put another way, the history of animals and beasts is all a bit confusing—though thankfully, the individual names of different kinds of animals aren’t nearly as mixed-up. That’s not to say they don’t have their own stories to tell, though.

1. PENGUIN
No one is entirely sure why penguins are called penguins (not helped by the fact that they were once upon a time called arsefeet), but the best theory we have is that penguin is a corruption of the Welsh pen gwyn, literally “white head.” The name pen gwyn originally applied to the great auk, an enormous flightless black-and-white seabird of the North Atlantic, and it's presumed that sailors to the South Atlantic either confused the flightless black-and-white seabirds they saw there for auks, or just used the same word for both creatures.

2. ALBATROSS
This is a strange one: In the 16th century, the Arabic word for a sea eagle, al-ghattas, was borrowed into Spanish and became the Spanish word for a pelican, alcatraz (which is where the island with the prison gets its name). Alcatraz was then borrowed into English and became albatross in the late 17th century—but at each point in history, the word applied to completely different animals. An alternative theory claims that albatross and Alcatraz might actually be unrelated, and instead, albatross could be derived from a Portuguese word, alcatruz, for one of the troughs that carried the water around a waterwheel. Even if that’s the case, however, the word still probably began life as another name for a pelican, with the bucket of the waterwheel probably alluding to the pelican’s enormous bill pouch.

3. RHINOCEROS
Rhinoceros literally means “nose-horned.” The rhino– part is the same as in words like rhinoplasty, the medical name for a nose job, while the –ceros part is the same root found in words like triceratops and keratin—the tough, fibrous protein that makes up our hair and nails and rhino horns.

4. OSTRICH
The English word ostrich is a corruption of the Latin avis struthio—avis meaning “bird” and struthio being the Latin word for the ostrich itself. In turn, struthio comes from the Greek name for the ostrich, strouthos meagle, which literally means “big sparrow.”

5. HIPPOPOTAMUS
Hippopotamus literally means “river horse” in Greek. It might not look much like a horse, but it certainly lives in rivers—and let’s be honest, it looks more like a horse than an ostrich looks like a sparrow.

6. RACCOON
Raccoon is derived from an Algonquin word that literally means “he scratches with his hands.” Before that was adopted into English, raccoons were known as “wash-bears” (and still are in several other languages, including Dutch and German), which refers to their habit of washing their food before eating it.

7. MOOSE
Moose, too, is thought to be an Algonquin word, literally meaning “he strips it off,” a reference to the animal’s fondness for tearing bark off trees. Likewise, muskrat is perhaps a derivative of an Algonquin name meaning “it is red.”

8. TIGER
Our word tiger goes all the way back to Ancient Greek, but the Greeks in turn borrowed the word from Asia, and it’s a mystery where the word actually originated. One theory is that it comes from tighri, a word from Avestan (an ancient Iranian language) that literally means “arrow” or “sharp object,” but that’s only conjecture. Speaking of big cats …

9. LEOPARD
Confusingly, leopard literally means “lion-panther” or “lion-leopard.” Variations of the word pard have been used to mean “leopard” or “panther” since the days of Ancient Greek, while leon was the Greek, and eventually Latin, word for a lion. The word lion itself, meanwhile, is so old that its origins probably lie in the impossibly ancient languages from which Egyptian hieroglyphics derived. Another confusing big cat name is …

10. CHEETAH
It derives from chita, which is the Hindi word for “leopard” and in turn probably comes from a Sanskrit word literally meaning “spotted.”

11. PYTHON
In Greek mythology, the Python was an enormous dragon-like serpent that was slain by the legendary hero Apollo. Apollo left the serpent’s corpse to rot in the heat of the sun, and the site of its death eventually became the site of the oracle of Delphi (known as Pytho, to the Ancient Greeks). Ultimately, the name python itself derives from a Greek word literally meaning “to rot.”

12. ANACONDA
The anaconda’s name is a lot harder to explain. Although anaconda are only found in South America, it’s likely that the name was brought there from elsewhere. One likely theory claims that it might once have referred to an enormous snake of southeast Asia that was known by a Tamil name, anaikkonda, literally meaning “having killed an elephant.”

13. HYENA
The name hyena traces back to the Greek word for a pig or a boar, hys, which apparently refers to the spiny hairs on the animal’s back.

14. WALRUS
Walrus was borrowed into English in the 18th century from Dutch, but it may have its origins in the Old Norse word rosmhvalr, which came from another name for walrus, morse. Before then, walruses were known as sea-elephants, sea-oxen, sea-cows, and even sea-horses.

15. PANDA
Panda was borrowed into English in the early 1800s, when it originally referred exclusively to what we’d now call a red panda; in reference to the giant black-and-white panda, the word only dates back to the beginning of the 20th century, when it was erroneously thought to be related to the red panda. Either way, panda is thought to come from a Nepali word, Nigálya-pónya, that might literally mean something like “cane-eating cat-bear.”

16. OCTOPUS
Octopus literally means “eight-footed” not, despite what many people think, “eight-armed” or “eight-legged.” Also contrary to popular belief, the plural of octopus really isn’t octopi. It would be if octopus were a Latin word (in which case its plural would follow the same rules as words like fungi and alumni), but octopus is actually derived from Ancient Greek roots. So to be absolutely, pedantically correct, the plural of octopus should be octopodes—but why complicate things? Feel free just to call more than one octopus a group of octopuses.

17. TORTOISE
No one is entirely sure why tortoises are called tortoises, although it’s fair to say that none of the theories we have to choose from is particularly flattering. On the one hand, tortoise might be a derivative of a Latin word, tartaruchus, literally meaning “of the underworld.” On the other, it might come from the Latin tortus, meaning “twisted” (which is also where the adjective tortuous derives from). The actual Latin name for the tortoise, testudo, was much simpler, however: it simply means “shelled.”

18. MEERKAT
The name meerkat was borrowed into English from Afrikaans, the Dutch-origin language spoken in South Africa. In its native Dutch however, meerkat is another name for the guenon, a type of monkey found in sub-Saharan Africa. How did the two words become confused? No one knows.

19. KANGAROO
There’s an old folk etymology that claims kangaroo means “I don’t know.” According to the story, on his arrival in Australia, Captain Cook asked a native Australian what the bizarre looking creatures bounding around in the distance were. He replied, in his native language, “I don’t know”—which, to Captain Cook, sounded something like “kangaroo.” It’s a neat story, but likely an apocryphal one, not least because the chances of a native Australian not knowing what a kangaroo was are pretty slim. Instead, it’s likely kangaroo likely derives from a local Guugu Yimidhirr word, perhaps simply meaning “large animal.”

20. PLATYPUS
And lastly, staying in Australia, the duck-billed platypus’s name literally means “flat-footed.” Bonus fact: Because of its bizarre appearance, the platypus was also once known as the duck-mole.

petra1:
Dinosaurs were already extinct million years before Noah came .

You're implying two things
1. Bible is fake
2. Dinosaurs existed before Adam

Babatunde40:
WHITE WHITE WHITE

Inferiority complex is killing you. That is why they refused your effective covid 19 drug from madagascar

If WHITES tell you to drink kerosene tomorrow that it can cure corona, your type will be the first to drink 1 galon

Go get a degree in Stanford or Cambridge then I'll take you serious

MadeINchenzen2:
U are very stúpid for saying that nonsense... and u lack manners too. idiót...

if you are knowledgeable as u claim, ur life wouldn't be this bad... you are still a nobody. get a life

I just gave u a clean fact. So if u want to question science, go back to secondary school and start science afresh, then go to Cambridge University, explore with the scientists and when u have gained little knowledge, then u can come here and question. But for now, shut it

CTete:
My Holy bible tells me that that world is still within the 6,000 years. In one of Ellen G. White books, Desire of ages, she stated that many animals were wiped out during the flood.

Hence the size of man reduced. Just imagine what we face from these little wide animals like lion, leopards and some reptiles, not to mention Hugh mammals that existed before the flood.

Satan steps up to some of those who have itching minds
and presents his scientific problems. Men will be tempted to place
science above God.�

6000 yrs didn't literally mean 6000yrs we know. The calculation of day now wasn't the same with God. A day was regarded as a thousand year

visatex:
pls help me ask them. oya carbon dating experts, dey have served your food ooh, come and eat. Idiots. They don't use their brain, just following oyinbo like sheep.

U are delusional, now explain how human came 5000 years ago

crackhouse:
Which one is 110m years ago? When was the world created again? So the dinosaur has been here millions of yrs before Jesus came? Una weldone o

Dinosaurs existed and no man witnessed or ever saw them. That brings us to the Bible. Its either the scientist are telling lies or the Bible is.

dukeprince50:
We for don kill them chop finish, even whales that lives on water are an endangered species let alone Dinosaurs on land that may cross our paths time to time. The difference is that these ones are predators which will be difficult to kill but a time will come when we will almost kill them all.

Really? Try hunting a lion in a wild forest.

janettee:
Imagine if Dinosaurs didn't go extinct .

Hahaha the earth will be like scary movie. Imagine waking up and seeing the eye of a dinosaur at your window

visatex:
Keep dreaming, my PhD is better than your entire life work. I am 100% pure science but I don't believe everything a white man says.

Hahaha i see ur sarcasm there

Onucs:
I am beginning to disbelieve this guyz.. alot of fake findings out there

Lol, Mr explorer, you're the head of research department.

MadeINchenzen2:
this is 2020 and someone is saying 110 million years ago. Op think okay, think!!!

U only know what u were taught by ur parents and school, so when the higher people are talking, keep mute and learn

Babatunde40:
See, I am far more educated than you. Carbon dating is flawed. That's if you know what carbon dating is

Shut up, u think u know better than the white? Trust me u don't. Ur information gathered is based on reading, while they are based on research and exploring. So don't think you're more educated. There are more educated people that u here that believe in carbon dating

TheMohican:
You're a bloody fool, slowpoke no different from an ape

I swear. What does he know, he has been in Nigeria learning abc before graduating and becoming a sales man or something and he thinks he knows everything, while scientist that explore round the world giving fact and he's talking with his anus

visatex:
Hmm...dem don come again. Lying through their teeth.

I can believe the earth could be that old given the state it could have been without any touch of man or a higher being. A raw earth just lying idle. Very believable.

But when you want to justify the existence of the sheer fantasy of a dinosaur, please my dear oyinbo scientist, make una no dey lie pass Satan.

110 million years (emphasis million). Maka why!

Lol. They are smarter than you o and they brought education to u, so what do u know?

tillaman:
I am not saying Dinosaurs are real or not but how do they come up with those Years na, carbon dating and crap
Bullshit!!
Well I would love me some dinosaur though
Oh and a dragon too

Lol scientist are always right and dragon is a myth. Everyone knows that

Lol

ukukaegbu:
Do they really know what 110million years mean?

Lol before Adam

Stephenomozzy:
Sometimes eh, the exaggerated "facts" that are given to these archaeological findings, makes science look like Superstitions!

Awon 110million years!

How a dating-analysis system of less than 200 years old is able to make a hundred million years prediction begs a lot of question! AI learns from data, how many data did they get from earth at 100+ million years ago to teach these machines accurately

Relative dating is used to determine a fossils approximate age by comparing it to similar rocks and fossils of known ages. Absolute dating is used to determine a precise age of a fossil by using radiometric dating to measure the decay of isotopes, either within the fossil or more often the rocks associated with it.

Stop generalizing people ooo. Op u belong to that category of women that says all men are the same

I really wish to comment but i don't have enough wisdom to tackle the situation

Mia fvck cock

Weathered:
bedazzled idiot

Lol learnt new word

Pls op, just pay me for transport fare, i live in lekki phase 1,I'll surely leave my house and visit that your junior brother and una mum. I'll make sure that boy bleeds heavy blood while your mum I'll flog her with dry wood till she starts crying. This is the kind of people i so much hate in this world. People who cause other people depression. God bless you and your elder sister oo. I'll advise you take care of ur dad for the meantime till he gets better. And if he gets better pls dnt send him back to ur mum okay? When I'm done with the beating then he can return

Can't wait to watch another horror film

funkmrflexx:
We Have Been Dating For 1 Year and 6 months now. I’ve met her parents, we wanted to get married last year but her dad told me to wait till she finishes school which is supposed to be next year. I’m 25 years old and she’s 22 .

I live alone in the city while my mom lives in the village. My younger sister who I’m sponsoring through school sometimes comes to my place during holidays and weekends. My girlfriend practically lives with me because she comes from a type of an Abusive family. So she lives with me and I even assist her with school fees and house rents sometimes. I’ve spent even more than her father for her school.

Everyone In my family knows her and she’s a very wonderful girl. Typical wife material. She supports me every time even when I’m broke. I’m not the type of guy that dates a lot of girls . I don’t even cheat on her. Since I met her I’ve done away with a lot of ladies. I’m 100% committed to the relationship

But the problem is that she Has very bad anger issues. I mean she can destroy your property when she’s angry and I’m the quiet type. I don’t like hitting a lady execpt once in a while a general brain resetting slap. When she starts she doesn’t listen to anyone. Not me, not even her parents. So anytime she’s angry like this I will just find a way to make her laugh. Both of you can just be eating and she will get angry if you ate the fleshy part of the meat and left oily part for her (we have quarreled because of that I mean serious quarrel) . Sometimes I get tired of the whole situation. At the end even when she’s wrong I’ll let her for peace to reign. So I try to manage the anger at home so it shouldn’t go out

So we went to visit my mom in the yesterday. Because of curfew we slept over. So my mom bought us mangos this morning and told us to carry.

My girlfriend then said she doesn’t like mango that if I want to eat my mango I should carry it myself. Then my mom (she is the type that always shouts at every body. The real wahala woman) told her that if she can’t carry the mango then she should just put it on my head for me to carry na (If you no fit carry the mango u for kuku put am for e head make e carry am na).

That was the only thing my mom said. Then she sparked. Started shouting at my mom. That she should stop talking to her like that, that she doesn’t like it. In fact she’s going home. So she carried her bag and started going home. Every one in the compound started saying it’s ok (Na dat thing why dem tell u Dey make u Dey vex so) she was still shouting. I was even try to calm her down but no way. She was still shouting. Even my sister who had never seen her angry before became angry (na so you b? She said). I was really disappointed In her

The issue is what even made me angry is how she reacted. If she didn’t like what my mom said made her angry. At least she should have waited till we got home (this was the first time we were both sleeping over) then she would tell me. Or she could have called my sister and told her what my mom said. After all the fracas, she went inside the room till we left. I just told everybody to just leave her.

So when we got home I told her what she did was wrong that she shouldn’t have reacted like that. Na there war start. She started yelling and shouting at me that if my mom talks to everyone like that she won’t take it (my plan was to tell her that she should apologize to her. Because my mom already apologized that she won’t talk to her again like that. Which I know she will o . So we can just forget about the issue. But she never accepts she’s wrong ) She said I took her to my village to intimidate her in front of my family people, I was really angry and called her uncle and told him what happened. He said there was nothing wrong with what my mom told her (If you no fit carry the mango u for kuku put am for e head make e carry am na) and that he would talk to her .

I even scolded my mom before I left that I didn’t like what she said what she did that’s she was just causing issue. My girlfriend said when my mom said the word (If you no fit carry the mango u for kuku put am for e head make e carry am na) that I should have immediately rebuked my mom. But me sef no see anything wrong with what my mom said( If you no fit carry the mango u for kuku put am for e head make e carry am na)

I just Dey follow her uncle advise and leave her be until she calms down and I talk to her

So my people what’s offensive in this word? If you no fit carry the mango u for kuku put am for e head make e carry am na)

But this her attitude don tire me. Break up is not on the card for me at least not yet. She always thinks that they are other guys out there because she has a lot of toasters but I know they can’t do quarter of what I’m doing for her. In this modern time it’s difficult to see a guy who will allow his girlfriend stay with him thereby losing his freedom to do certain things. A guy who doesn’t cheat, a guy who takes care of her does everything for her .

I just think the things she went through in her family is affecting her physiological. And sometimes when I think about leaving her I feel pity because she can’t go back to her parents house.

U deserve award for being the most faithful man in a relationship. You are still 25 sha, u never mature in terms of reasoning

If this story was a made up one, then op deserve two hot slaps but if its a real one, he deserves more than a billion hot slaps. I wish i was there to slap the hell out of u. Nonsense boy

This op is a stupid person with no common sense

Apus:
OP prepare a concotion of SK(grinded) mixed with spirit or aboniki. Rub on ur face as u exercise patience cos beards don't just spring out in one day.

I advise not to use aboniki oo. Cos i was beardless during my teen years and i was advised to use aboniki balm. Was told u won't see effect till 3 months. I used it for 6months and i grew mad beards and a very itchy one. Needless to say i shave every 3days with bumps all over due to the over circulation of hair follicles with aboniki balm. So i advise u let nature take its course or u re ready to spend so much trimming the beard

As a young fine boy like me, If i have $5B, and i seek Regina's hand in marriage, and give her mum a house in banana island worth 1 billion naira, don't u think she go divorce her hubby and marry me asap. See what money can do

irunoko:
I believe aunty kemi

Because she's not always far from the truth.kokani agbekale oroni


Everything she said about covidiots and aba kyari turned out to be eventually true.


Everything she said about tiwa and tbliz before they broke up came out true

The one of Nnamdi Kanu nko