National media attention focused on suburban Cobb County, Ga., last week as a federal court heard constitutional challenges to a school district policy requiring that a biology textbook carry this disclaimer: “Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This mater[...]
Britain’s biggest dinosaur found
July 21st, 2012 - 09:02 § in Mystery
Fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight have unearthed bones from the biggest dinosaur so far discovered in the UK.
One fossil a single neck bone from the 125-130-million-year-old sauropod dinosaur measures an astonishing three-quarters of a metre in length.
Based on this, a team of UK and US researchers believes the huge reptile was probably over 20m long and could have weighed as much as 40-50 tonnes.
Details of the discovery appear in the scientific journal Cretaceous Research.
“It is impressively big,” team leader Darren Naish, of the University of Portsmouth ...
Supernatural vision：The ghosts of St. Michael’s Mount
July 19th, 2012 - 09:59 § in Ghosts, Paranormal
Giant killers, angels and ghosts are just part of the charm of St Michael’s Mount, writes David Wilson. In England, if you head for the Cornish coast, five kilometres east of the town of Penzance, you will find what enthusiasts call the jewel of Cornwall: St Michael’s Mount. This 8.5-hec[...]
Science taps into ocean secrets
July 17th, 2012 - 09:53 § in Science
Some 13,000 new marine species have been discovered in the past year, according to information released by an international alliance of scientists. The Census of Marine Life (COML) has also uncovered previously unknown migration routes used by fish such as tuna and shark. The $1bn 10-year project, w[...]
Scientists unravel the mystery of entropy
The big bang could be a normal event in the natural evolution of the universe that will happen repeatedly over incredibly vast time scales as the universe expands, empties out and cools off, according to two University physicists. “We like to say that the big bang is nothing special in the history[...]
Top secret black triangles
July 15th, 2012 - 09:50 § in UFO
Eyewitnesses all over the country are reporting glimpses of something large, dark and mysterious in the skies above big cities and busy highways. The crafts are often described as triangular in shape, silent in their movements, and of unknown origin, and they’ve been seen here in southern Neva[...]
‘Original’ great ape discovered
July 14th, 2012 - 09:46 § in Legends
Scientists have unearthed remains of a primate that could have been ancestral not only to humans but to all great apes, including chimps and gorillas. The partial skeleton of this 13-million-year-old “missing link” was found by palaeontologists working at a dig site near Barcelona in Spa[...]
What killed Tutankhamun? Mummy’s Cause of Death
July 13th, 2012 - 09:44 § in History
CAIRO — Egypt plans to run tests on the mummy of Tutankhamun to find out what killed the king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago and died while only a teenager. Culture Minister Farouk Hosni agreed Tutankhamun’s mummified body could be moved from its tomb to the Cairo Museum for t[...]
Does life exist miles under the Antarctic ice ?
July 12th, 2012 - 09:43 § in Science
Some years ago, researchers found something that sent shivers through the scientific community: a diverse community of microbial life-forms that live without sunlight or a ready supply of nutrients. The scientists were not searching deep space when they made their find. Rather, they were sampling th[...]
Searching for the Florida ‘Skunk Ape’
July 11th, 2012 - 09:41 § in Legends
Woman’s Sighting of Ape-Like Green Swamp Creature Among the Theories Studied by Cryptozoologists When Jennifer Ward drives through the Green Swamp these days, she makes sure she has a camera in her car. She hopes she’ll get the chance to capture for others an image is already seared into[...]
