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Digging up evidence of 400-year-old global trade and wealth
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 09, 2009 |
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French and Chinese blue glass, Dutch layered glass, Baltic amber: roughly 70,000 beads manufactured all over the world have been excavated at one of the Spanish empire's remotest outposts, the Santa Catalina ...
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Bronze age necklace unearthed
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 4,000-year-old amber necklace has been discovered at a dig organised by a team of archeologists in Manchester.
Amber reveals ecology of 30 million year old spiders
Mar 06, 2006 |
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Scientists at The University of Manchester and the Manchester Metropolitan University have carried out the first comparative scientific study of ancient spiders trapped in amber more than 30 millions years ago.
Baby seals dying in Baltic Sea
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Mar 12, 2008 |
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German conservationists said a warm winter has left hundreds of baby seals dying of cold and starvation in the Baltic Sea.
Amber fossils reveal ancient France was a jungle
Jan 07, 2008 |
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Research on a treasure trove of amber has yielded evidence that France once was covered by a dense tropical rainforest with trees similar to those found in the modern-day Amazon. The report on 55-million-year-old ...
Warmer climate not the cause of oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea has never been greater than it is now. But it is not an effect of climate change but rather of increased inputs of nutrients and fertilisers. This is the finding of researchers at the University ...
Unexpected amber find rewrites botanical history
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unexpected discovery made by Macquarie University PhD student Sargent Bray about the origin and nature of chemical compounds contained in ancient amber has changed our understanding of ...
The secret jungles of ancient France
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ah, Paris. Land of the Eiffel Tower, delicious French bread and... tropical rainforests? Sacrebleu! It seems unlikely, but scientists have discovered evidence that France may have been a hot, wet tropical ...
Porpoise is 2nd to give birth in captivity
May 08, 2009 |
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A porpoise at Harderwijk dolphin centre in the Netherlands has become only the second to give birth in captivity, the centre announced, but the happy event leaves an enigma: is it a boy or a girl?
Scientists discover 356 animal inclusions trapped in 100 million years old opaque amber
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Paleontologists from the University of Rennes (France) and the ESRF have found the presence of 356 animal inclusions in completely opaque amber from mid-Cretaceous sites of Charentes (France). The team used the X-rays of ...
Sewage treatment in the East may be enough to reduce Baltic algal blooms
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Upgrading sewage treatment in the southeastern Baltic Sea states to Swedish standards may suffice to reduce algal blooms in the Baltic to levels of the 1950s. This is shown in a study performed by Andreas ...
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