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Dung beetle named after Darwin

Dung beetle named after Darwin

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A dung beetle from Costa Rica has been named after Charles Darwin and the Darwin Initiative. It was discovered during a Natural History Museum led expedition.


Doctor Astrid Vargas feeding a lynx cub at the captive breeding center

Most endangered feline brought back from the brink

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Road signs throughout the vast Donana National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southwestern Spain, warn drivers to watch out for lynxes.


Eruption of the La Cumbre volcano in Fernandina island

Volcanic eruption takes toll on Galapagos wildlife

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A volcanic eruption over the weekend has taken a toll on the wildlife of the ecologically-fragile Galapagos Islands, causing the deaths of numerous fish and various sea lions, said officials on Thursday.





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Giant Skull of Pliosaur 'Sea Monster' Unearthed in England

Giant Skull of 12m Pliosaur 'Sea Monster' Unearthed in England

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The fossilised skull of a pliosaur, the largest marine reptile that ever lived, has been discovered along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.


A survey of China's Great Wall has discovered the ancient monument is much longer than previously estimated

China's Great Wall far longer than thought: survey

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created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The most comprehensive and technologically advanced survey of China's Great Wall has discovered the ancient monument is much longer than previously estimated, state media reported Monday.


Earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A research team led by Professor Michael Chazan, director of the University of Toronto's Archaeology Centre, has discovered the earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.


Unique study isolates DNA from Linnaeus' botanical collections

Unique study isolates DNA from Linnaeus' botanical collections

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University has succeeded in extracting long DNA fragments from dried, pressed plant material collected in the 1700s by Linnaeus' apprentice Adam Afzelius. It is hoped ...


The tricycle captures images of places less accessible by car

Google, on tricycle, captures gardens of Versailles

Technology / Internet

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

Google's tricycle-mounted cameras on Monday shot footage of the 17th century gardens of France's Chateau de Versailles destined for its Street View service by year's end.


Britain?s oldest dinosaur to be released

Britain's oldest dinosaur to be released

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created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After 210 million years of being entombed in rock, the Bristol Dinosaur is about to be released, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant awarded to the University of Bristol.


Did India invent the nose job?

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.


Humanity's earliest written works go online (AP)

Humanity's earliest written works go online

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created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(AP) -- National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World.


NOAA locates US Navy ship sunk in World War II battle

NOAA Locates U.S. Navy Ship Sunk in World War II Battle

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German ...


Burials held at Stonehenge for hundreds of years: research

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created May 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

England's famous Stonehenge monument was used as a burial site from its inception around 3000 BC until well after the massive stones were erected there around 2500 BC, scientists said Thursday.



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