Saturday, May 10, 2008

English Channel coast bursts with of fossils - San Francisco Gate

English Channel coast bursts with of fossils - San Francisco Gate
(05-09) 04:00 PDT Charmouth, England -- At first glance, it looks like another pebbly English beach - what the Brits call a "shingle beach": an expanse of gray-white rocks ...

Fossils found coated in diamonds - MSN UK News
Ancient sea creatures living after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs had a thing for bling which was out of this world. Scientists have discovered that they coated ...

Desert Day Trips - Egypt Today
Yo u don’t have to be a diehard camper to enjoy the beauty of Egypt’s Western Desert. For those who don’t have time or inclination to spend long hours or even days en route ...

Dania Beach - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Today's highlights Mother's Day Dance, 7:30 p.m. at Sunrise Lakes Phase IV, 10102 Sunrise Lakes Blvd., Sunrise. Call 954-748-3230. Fun With Flowers, make a floral design in a ...

Space Pig 1.0.3 - Help the Pig pick up moon diamonds and coins. (Demo)

Space Pig 1.0.3 - Help the Pig pick up moon diamonds and coins. (Demo)

Space Pig 1.0.3 - Help the Pig pick up moon diamonds and coins. (Demo)

Space Pig 1.0.3 Space Pig... Fun, entertaining and relaxing cartoon style game. Control the animated Pig character around the moon, picking as much coins and diamonds as you can, but beware of the falling meteorites and spikes. Post your score in our Top 100 list and check how you are playing agains...

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Resolved Question: The history of life has been punctuated by several mass extinctions.?
The history of life has been punctuated by several mass extinctions. For example, the impact of a meteorite may have wiped out the dinosaurs and many forms of marine life at the end of the Cretaceous period. Fossils indicate that plants were much less severely affected by this and other mass extinctions. What adaptations may have enabled plants to withstand these disasters better than animals? I'm looking for answers that have to do with mechanisms plants use that animals don't, as well as specific structures. Thanks!

Dinosaur killer may have struck oil

Dinosaur killer may have struck oil

clipped by: pokkets Clip Source: www.abc.net.au Larry O'Hanlon The dinosaur-killing Chicxulub meteor might have ignited an oilfield rather than forests when it slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, say geologists. The dinosaur-killing meteorite crashed into oily shales, researchers s...

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Voting Question: Is there any understanding of what these orange balls in the night sky are, do meteorite's move like this?
I saw four orange balls floating silently in a pyramid in the sky on 4th May 2008 @ 23.10.My brother and I even got some film footage on his camera phone. I could not gage the height or distance of the balls but the length of time they spent in the night sky was unlike anything I have witnessed before. I have no idea what these balls were but they were floating in the northern sky above Didsbury in Manchester, England.

Outdoor notebook: See the Gunlock Meteorite at DNR store - Salt Lake Tribune

Outdoor notebook: See the Gunlock Meteorite at DNR store - Salt Lake Tribune
The Gunlock Meteorite, discovered near Gunlock, Utah, in 1982, is on display at the Natural Resources Map and Bookstore, 1594 W. North Temple in Salt Lake City. Half of a 4.5 ...

ASU researcher may have discovered key to life before its origin on ... - HULIQ.com
An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of “handedness” in biomolecules. Researchers led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State ...

Space Boomerang Toss Now On Video
Speaking of sports in space , Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency has finally released the video of astronaut Takao Doi's famous boomerang toss in space.

Everything's close when you stay in downtown LA

Everything's close when you stay in downtown LA
Los Angeles, California. Aside from the Big Apple, is there any other place in America that might legitimately call itself the Center of the Universe? In the case of Los Angeles, it is the center...

Dinosaur Names
As with other types of organism (including all plants and animals), dinosaurs are classified using the standard biological classification system (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, ge...

Ginkgo Biloba Properties And Benefits
One of the world's oldest alive tree forms is Ginkgo Biloba. Excavations of fossils of Ginkgo Biloba show them to be 5000 years older and even more. One single tree can have a life of a thousand year;...

Information about South Africa: History Unveiled
The discovery of fossil evidences brings scholars to agree that the earliest people came from the lands of Africa. Such evidences and information about South Africa included the skull of Taung Child,...