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Impact Of Geology On The U.S. Civil War: War From The Ground Up
The connection between
geology and the history of
the Civil War has fascinated
some researchers. Now they
take history, military
history in particular, a
... > full story
The Green Sahara, A Desert In Bloom
New North African climate
reconstructions reveal three
‘green Sahara’
episodes during which the
present-day Sahara Desert
was almost completely
covered with extensive
... > full story
Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found Show Animals Walking 30 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
The fossilized trail of an
aquatic creature suggests
that animals walked using
legs at least 30 million
years earlier than had been
... > full story
Gene Expression In Alligators Suggests Birds Have 'Thumbs'
The latest breakthrough in a
120 year-old debate on the
evolution of the bird wing
was just published. Bird
wings only have three
fingers, having evolved from
... > full story
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Egalitarian Revolution In The Pleistocene?
October 6, 2008 — Although anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are still debating this question, a new study supports the view that the first egalitarian societies may have appeared tens of thousands of years ... > full story -
Pterodactyl-inspired Robot To Master Air, Ground And Sea
October 5, 2008 — Scientists have reached back in time 115 million years to one of the most successful flying creatures in Earth's history -- the pterodactyl -- to conjure a robotic spy plane with next-generation ... > full story -
The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave In The Rocks?
October 5, 2008 — What will be the lasting impression made by mankind - 100 million years hence? "From the perspective of 100 million years in the future --- a geologist's view --- the reign of humans on Earth would ... > full story -
Navy Confirms Sunken Submarine Is Grunion
October 4, 2008 — A sunken vessel discovered off the coast of the Aleutian Islands is in fact the World War II submarine USS Grunion (SS 216). The submarine Grunion arrived at Pearl Harbor on June 20, ... > full story -
Short RNAs Show A Long History: MicroRNAs Found In Animals That Appeared A Billion Years Ago
October 2, 2008 — MicroRNAs, the tiny molecules that fine-tune gene expression, were first discovered in 1993. But it turns out they've been around for a billion years. MicroRNAs and piRNAs, two classes of small RNAs ... > full story -
Canada's Shores Saved Animals From Devastating Climate Change 252 Million Years Ago
October 2, 2008 — Scientists have solved part of the mystery of where marine organisms that recovered from the biggest extinction on earth were housed. The researchers discovered that the shorelines of ancient Canada ... > full story -
Paleozoic 'Sediment Curve' Provides New Tool For Tracking Sea-floor Sediment Movements
October 2, 2008 — As the world looks for more energy, the oil industry will need more refined tools for discoveries in places where searches have never before taken place, geologists say. A new tool follows sea-level ... > full story -
New Life Found In Ancient Tombs
October 1, 2008 — Life has been discovered in the barren depths of Rome's ancient tombs, proving catacombs are not just a resting place for the dead. The two new species of bacteria found growing on the walls of the ... > full story -
Mysterious Snippets Of DNA Withstand Eons Of Evolution
October 1, 2008 — Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbor a big secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. There's one problem: We don't know what it is. Although individual ... > full story -
Mass Extinctions And The Evolution Of Dinosaurs
September 30, 2008 — Dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that their rise was a slow and complicated event, and driven by two mass extinctions, according to new ... > full story
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