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Africa's rarest monkey had an intriguing sexual past, DNA study confirms

Africa's rarest monkey had an intriguing sexual past, DNA study confirms

Biology / Plants & Animals

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The most extensive DNA study to-date of Africa's rarest monkey reveals that the species had an intriguing sexual past. Of the last two remaining populations of the recently discovered kipunji, one population ...


Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Congo Basin -- with its massive, lush tropical rain forest -- was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana. The Congo Basin was ...


Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Stanford university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has unearthed evidence suggesting why the newly ...


Darwin meets Facebook

Biology / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Natural history plans to chart life on earth, yet the discipline risks being buried under a landslide of painstakingly collected data that isn't always used. Now researchers at London's Natural History Museum have created ...


Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others ...


Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory

Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.


The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit ...


Atlanta's Fernbank Museum tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

Team tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path ...


Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames ...


T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(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 ...



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