New results shed light on how Antarctica became the icy, barren continent that we know today. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have discovered that 30-50 million years ago, South America and Antarctica split apart very rapidly. This formed t...
Scientists have pieced together part of the genetic recipe of the extinct woolly mammoth.
The 5,000 DNA letters spell out the genetic code of its mitochondria, the structures in the cell that generate energy.
The research, published in the online e...
The recent addition of a field lens in the Altair adaptive optics system at the Gemini Observatory has resulted in a significant improvement in near-infrared imaging capabilities at Gemini North. Altair with the field lens will begin regular science...
In the Jurassic era when dinosaurs ruled the earth, a 13-foot monster crocodile nicknamed "Godzilla" might be the king of sea..
Totally unique among marine crocodiles, "it is one of the most evolved members of the crocodilian family and...
Tourist park hopes to be named one of planet's true black spots ... A Scottish forest is one of two national parks competing to be named ... Officials from the Forestry Commission Scotland are hoping Galloway Forest Park will beat Hortobágy N...
Higher concentrations of oxygen could produce giant insects according to a paper presented at the Comparative Physiology conference currently meeting in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The paper, "No giants today: tracheal oxygen supply to the legs limit...
The detailed design for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) developed by a U.S.-Canadian team is capable of delivering on the full promise of its enormous light-collecting area, according to the findings of an independent panel of experts.
With...
Chinese archaeologists have reported a major dinosaur find in northwest China's Ningxia Hui and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions. In the Lingwu excavation site of Ningxia, they spotted fossils from the diplodocus species that had never been unearth...
Current levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the last 650,000 years.
That is the conclusion of new European studies looking at ice taken from 3km below the surface of Antarc...
The Very Long Baseline Array, a radio astronomy observatory with employees in Socorro, must find funding outside its current source by 2011 to remain open.
The array's director expects to succeed in that.
The National Science Foundation funds the a...
Exterior walls on a "painted pyramid" buried for centuries in the Mexican jungle have revealed a series of unusual Maya wall murals, complete with hieroglyphic captions, providing archaeologists with a priceless look at day-to-day life in t...
Scotland is pioneering a new project to protect the planet's ancient fossils with the launch of the world's first national Fossil Code.
The code has been created to stop the damage caused by irresponsible collectors who use crowbars, sledgehammers a...
A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 11:01:05 (UTC) on Saturday, January 05, 2008, in the Queen Charlotte islands region, 158 km WNW from Port Hardy, BC, Canada, at a depth of 10 km. ... ... Location 51.299°N, 130.713°W ... ... ...
A University of Washington researcher has devised a way to use the fossil teeth of ancient bison as a tool to reconstruct historic climate and vegetation changes in America's breadbasket, the Great Plains.
The teeth hold evidence of the type of vege...
Speed Limit To The Pace Of Evolution ... Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a theoretical model that informs the understanding of evolution and determines how quickly an organism will evolve using a catalogue of "...
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