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Scientists discover oldest words in the English language, predict which ones are likely to disappear
Feb 26, 2009 |
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The oldest words in the English language include "I" and "who", while words like "dirty" could die out relatively quickly, British researchers said Thursday.
Study Finds Oldest Trees Grow Slowest - Even as Youngsters
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly published study has found that the oldest trees in the forest also grow the slowest - and they likely aren’t the prettiest.
Researchers find oldest rocks on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Canadian bedrock more than four billion years old may be the oldest known section of the Earth's early crust. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution used geochemical methods to obtain an age of 4.28 billion ...
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Oldest sea turtle fossil unveiled in Mexico
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the oldest fossil remains of a sea turtle that lived 72 million years ago in northern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said.
Discovery of the oldest known elephant relative
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Jul 08, 2009 |
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Emmanuel Gheerbrant, paleontologist at the Paris Museum (France), discovered one of the oldest modern ungulates related to the elephant order. The study is published in the PNAS journal.
Fishing boat lands World's oldest underwater human bone
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Jul 26, 2009 |
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A fishing boat trawling for mussels off the Dutch coast has instead landed a 40,000 year-old human bone, German scientists said on Sunday after examining the find.
Discovery of the oldest European marsupial
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime by a palaeontologist team from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS, France) and the ...
New cases of Alzheimer's and dementia continue to rise, even in the 'oldest old'
Jul 13, 2009 |
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The number of people with Alzheimer's and dementia - both new cases and total numbers with the disease - continues to rise among the very oldest segments of the population in contradiction of the conventional wisdom, according ...
T.rex's oldest ancestor identified
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Jo ...
Research reveals old timers in the frog world
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at Victoria University has revealed remarkable longevity in wild populations of New Zealand native frogs, particularly in the threatened Maud Island frog (Leiopelma pakeka).
'World's oldest blogger' dies in Spain at 97
May 21, 2009 |
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A Spanish great-grandmother who billed herself as the "world's oldest blogger" and who gained a global following on the Internet, died Thursday at the age of 97, local officials and reports said.
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Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese scientists today reveal the discovery of five remarkable new feathered dinosaur fossils which are significantly older than any previously reported. The new finds are indisputably older ...
Scientists discover historic sample of bomb-grade plutonium
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Washington state are reporting the surprise discovery of the oldest known sample of reactor-produced bomb-grade plutonium, a historic relic from the infancy of America’s nuclear weapons program. ...
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