September 6, 2012
First excavated in Mongolia in the 1970s, the fossil sat in storage for decades until researchers for the Russian Academy of Sciences rediscovered and analyzed it, reporting their results today (Aug. 27) in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. [,,,] The find also helps put the mysterious Ernanodon into the mammal family tree. Archaeologists had suspected that the animal might be related to modern-day sloths and armadillos. Instead, Kondrashov said, it is more closely tied to pangolins, which live in the tropics of Asia and Africa. Pangolins are bizarre mammals covered in scales. Like anteaters, they have a long, sticky tongue for catching termites and other insects. [,,,] "This is the time when all the main groups of mammals were established on the planet. This history is really well-deciphered in North America, and there's very little known about Asia," he said. "This helps us to understand how these early steps in the evolution of major groups of mammals occurred in Asia."
Ancient Termite-Digging Creature Added to Mammal Family Tree
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September 6, 2012
"I dug down about one foot but my wife just wanted to me to cover it back up because we had three children running around at the time," he said. "I always wanted to dig it out to see if I could find a pot of gold at the bottom, so when I retired at the end of last year that's what I started to do." Steer is seeking help from experts to determine exactly how old the well is. In the meantime, he has installed lights along its shaft and covered up the opening with a trap door. At one point during ... Continue reading...
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September 6, 2012
We drove across the Columbia River and continued eastward, dropping into Moses Coulee, a canyon with vertical walls of layered basalt. We gathered the students on a small rise and asked them how the canyon had formed. They immediately ruled out wind and glaciers. The valley was not U-shaped like a typical glacial valley, and none of us could imagine how wind might gouge a canyon out of hard basalt. But neither were there rivers or streams. After a while I pointed out that we were standing on ... Continue reading...
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September 6, 2012
There should be a caveat of YET at the end,,,science is not the end all-be all, but a starting point for eliminating what it is not,,,i think eventually science will be able to explain some of these things, but one has to remember that science deals with facts, not truth,,, Top Ten Unexplained Phenomena Continue reading...
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September 4, 2012
iologists using tools developed for drawing evolutionary family trees say that they have solved a longstanding problem in archaeology: the origin of the Indo-European family of languages. 2 IDEAS GENERALLY HELD AS TRUE,,, Linguists believe that the first speakers of the mother tongue, known as proto-Indo-European, were chariot-driving pastoralists who burst out of their homeland on the steppes above the Black Sea about 4,000 years ago and conquered Europe and Asia. A rival theory holds that, to... Continue reading...
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September 4, 2012
From bizarre antimatter to experiments that tie light up in knots, physics has revealed some spooky sides of our world. Here are seven of the most mind-blowing recent discoveries.
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September 4, 2012
A new study by musicologists in Europe suggests that the shape of our ear canals, as well as our own perceptions, is to blame for our distaste in such shrill sounds. [,,,] Interestingly, the most painful frequencies were not the highest or lowest, but instead were those that were between 2,000 and 4,000 Hz. The human ear is most sensitive to sounds that fall in this frequency range, said Michael Oehler, professor of media and music management at the University of Cologne in Germany, who was one... Continue reading...
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September 4, 2012
,,, But where space scientists now roam, dinosaurs used to call home, according to dino-hunter Ray Stanford. Stanford has discovered the footprint of a lumbering, spiny dinosaur called a nodosaur in NASA's own backyard on the Goddard Space Flight Center campus,,, [,,,] The dinner-plate-sized footprint bears the mark of four dino toes. It belongs to a nodosaur, a tank-like, armored beast studded with bony protuberances that roamed the area about 110 million years ago during the Cretaceous period,... Continue reading...
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September 4, 2012
The world is full of mysteries, and the human race loves nothing better than to find answers to them. Frequently, though, the answers aren't as popular as the mysteries themselves, and people will just continue right on believing, even when the evidence is right there, why don't you just look?! Just look, you bastard!
Oh really,,,I have a hard time believing that people such as Linda Moulton Howe, Stanton Friedman, Paul Eno, John Zaffis, Whitley Strieber, etc are so easily fooled,,,,
10 Fa... Continue reading...
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September 4, 2012
For those that have heard my TOTO episodes on Pic de Bugarach, the
Cathars were mentioned in regards to Daniel Bettex (the Bettex Affair - see: pt 2 show notes, the Philip Coppens article referenced gives awesome info),,,so my
interest was piqued,,, ,,,few individuals were more colourful
than a dark-haired, green-eyed young man named Otto Wilhelm Rahn. His
gaunt figure, swathed in characteristic black coat and fedora, casts a
long shadow out of those twilight years, a ‘great silhouetteâ... Continue reading...
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