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Wash that for you, Miss?
Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:27 PM EDT
If you were a fish living in the warm turquoise waters off the coast of Bonaire, you may not hear those words, but you'd see the shrimp sign language equivalent.
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Gods of Gondwana
Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:25 PM EDT
The dinosaurs of Australia disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous, as they did the world over. Their departure marked the end of the supercontinent of Gondwana.
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Sloths and Blue Green Algae
Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:11 PM EDT (ARCHEA)
Blue green algae is a term used to describe any of a large, heterogeneous group of prokaryotic, principally photosynthetic organisms.
Do We Take Minerals for Granted?
Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:24 PM EDT (USGS Mineral Resource)
Did you know that the average automobile contains more than a ton of iron and steel, 240 lbs of aluminum, 50 lbs of carbon, 42 lbs of copper, 41 lbs of silicon, 22 lbs of zinc, and more than thirty other mineral commodities, including titanium, platinum, and gold? Do you know the …
Elasmosaurs: Predators of Ancient Seas
Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:39 PM EDT (Scientific Blogging)
Until recently, elasmosaurs had never before been found in British Columbia. Nor had any other aquatic plesiosaurs, though similar creatures had been found on the coast of California and in the centre of North America, where once a central seaway split the continent.
Columbian Mammoth: State Fossil of Washington
Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:55 PM EDT (Scientific Blogging)
The Columbian Mammoth, the official state fossil of Washington, crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North America some one million years ago and made a home roaming the vast grasslands that stretched from Alaska to Mexico, mirroring the great Rocky Mountains, and munching down ab …
Mystery of Landlocked Sockeye in the Fossil Record
Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:53 PM EDT (Scientific Blogging)
The mystery of the landlocked salmon in the fossil record from the Interior of British Columbia has been a topic of hot debate for a number of years. Salmon have permeated First Nations mythology and have been prized as an important food source for thousands of years.
Homer's Odyssey Fossils of Crete
Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:52 PM EDT (Scientific Blogging)
The islands of the Aegean are peaks of underwater mountains that extend out from the mainland. Crete is the last of this range and boasts a diverse beauty from its high mountains of Psiloritis, Lefka Ori, Dikti, to its ocean caressed pink sand beaches.
Huge Fossilized Dung Reveals a Hidden Ancient Ecosystem
Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:50 PM EDT (Live Science)
A new study of 30 million-year-old fossilized mega-dung balls, as big as three inches (seven centimeters) in diameter and produced from the dung of extinct giant South American mammals, reveals that the dung was also a food source for a number of insects that would steal a bite w …
Spacewalk Day: Astronauts set for first outing
Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:06 AM EDT
It's spacewalking day at the shuttle-station complex. At high noon Saturday, two astronauts will venture out to help attach a platform for science experiments. It's the third and final piece of Japan's huge billion-dollar lab. And it's the first of five spacewalks planned for the shuttle flight.
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The Appearance Of Flowering Plants Explained
Seeded on Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:02 AM EDT (Science Daily)
The appearance of many species of flowering plants on Earth, and especially their relatively rapid dissemination during the Cretaceous (approximately 100 million years ago) can be attributed to their capacity to transform the world to their own needs.
Half of All Friends Replaced Every 7 Years
Seeded on Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:42 PM EDT (Live Science)
You may have more Facebook friends as the years go by, but when it comes to your close friends, you lose about half and replace them with new ones after about seven years, new social research suggests. As a result, the size of your social network stays about the same.
Homer's Odyssey Fossils of Crete
Seeded on Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:45 AM EDT (Scientific Blogging)
Much of the island of Crete is Miocene and filled with fossil mollusks, bivalves, gastropods who lived 5 to 23 million years ago in warm, tropical seas. They are easily collected from their pink limestone matrix and are often eroded out, mixing with their modern relatives.
Ancient Climate Change: When Palm Trees Gave Way To Spruce Trees
Seeded on Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:26 PM EDT (Science Daily)
One long-standing climate puzzle relates to a sequence of events 33.5 million years ago in the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene.
Crete: Fossils of the Aegean
Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:53 PM EDT
Nestled between the Aegean and Libyan Sea, Crete, the largest of the Greek Islands, sits at the southern most tip of Europe, the crossroad of cultures, civilizations, East and West, Africa and Europe.
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The One Velociraptor Per Child Project
Seeded on Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:45 PM EDT (The Wall Street Journal)
Most of the nearly two billion children in the developing world have inadequate access to dinosaurs. Some receive no paleontology training at all. One in three has never even seen a dinosaur in person
Arctic core proves red hot
Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:21 PM EDT
Evidence from the past provides a crystal ball for the future. A sediment core from 400m below the seabed of the Arctic Ocean showed that Fifty-five million years ago, deep in the Eocene, the North Pole was ice-free and enjoying tropical temperatures.
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Haida Gwaii: Fossil Collecting at the Edge of the World
Seeded on Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:57 PM EDT (Scientific Blogging)
The Queen Charlotte Islands form part of Wrangellia, an exotic tectonostratiphic terrane, that includes parts of western British Columbia, Vancouver Island and Alaska.
Small Brain Of Dwarf 'Hobbit' Explained By Hippo's Island Life
Seeded on Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:54 PM EDT (Science Daily)
By examining the skulls of extinct Madagascan hippos, Museum scientists discovered that dwarfed mammals on islands evolved much smaller brains in relation to their body size.
How Big A Role Does Chance Play In The History Of Life?
Seeded on Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:52 PM EDT (Science Daily)
If the broad evolutionary diversification of a group of organisms were repeated by a few species in a single genus tens of millions of years after the group's initial diversification, what would that say about the roles of contingency, constraint, and adaptation?
John Day Fossil Mammals of Oregon
Seeded on Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:48 PM EDT (ARCHEA)
More than a 100 groups of mammals have been found in the early Miocene (37 – 20 mya) John Day Formation near Kimberly, Oregon.
Off-the-grid Fossil Field Dig
Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:37 PM EDT
Eleven elite paleo enthusiasts were flown into the Tyaughton area near Castle Peak north of Goldbridge 007-style in a shiny new Jet Ranger helicopter. We were interested in the local geology and fossils from the Jurassic/Triassic exposures high in the alpine.
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Throw another shrimp on the barbie...
Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:21 PM EDT
What looked to be a small stroke of genius in the fight against global warming has resulted in huge disaster.
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Creating Cascadia: The making of Oregon
Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:19 PM EDT
Had you been swimming with the marine fossils that were laid down in the Eocene Epoch in Oregon, some 55 to 38 million years ago, you'd be treading water right up to where the Cascade Mountains are today.
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