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Cephalopods, mosasaurs, and Cretaceous parenting
on Oct 7, 2007 in palaeontology science Typical. You go away on holiday, you come back, and it's International Cephalopod Awareness Day. And me with nothing to wear, and shoes that don't match my dress, and a handbag that's so last season... anyway, moving swiftly on, back to the cephalopo...
Earliest bat shows flight developed before echolocation
on Feb 14, 2008 in Animal behaviour Animal evolution Animal kingdom Bats Evolution Mammals Palaeontology bat evolution echolocation flight fossils nature Onychonycteris science Their heads and bodies of bats have amassed an extraordinary array of adaptations that have make them lords of the night sky. Today, the thousand-plus types of bats make up a fifth of living mammal species. Richard Dawkins once described the evolutio...
The Gifts Of Antarctic Mountains
on Apr 26, 2009 in ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVENTURES, EXPLORATION AND EXPEDITIONS Climate Change Meteorology and Climatology Palaeontology Geology and Mineralogy Social Sciences and Humanities Antarctica Climbing and Mountaineering Extreme and Exotic Travel Surveying and Prospecting Ozone Layer Issues Geophysics Hydrology Society and Culture Antarctica seems to the outside world like a barren landscape devoid of anything interesting, but the continent is anything but uninteresting, especially its mountains.
Fossils And National Parks
on Apr 28, 2009 in Palaeontology Biodiversity Trekking and Excursions Landmarks and Interesting Sites Camping and Hiking Toys and Fun for Kids Education Fossil Fuels Society and Culture Fossils are constantly being found everywhere, including some of the most inaccessible spots of the globe, reachable only to explorers and willing scientists, but some of the best and most interesting fossil beds found thorough the history of palaeon...
Oldest human hair found in..... Hyena dung
on May 12, 2009 in human hair Palaeontology hyena Previously the oldest known human hair belonged to a 9,000-year-old mummy disinterred from an ancient Chilean cemetery. However a recent discovery pushes the record back some 200,000 years.According to Live Science a team of researchers from the Univ...