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Putting new face on ferocious saber-tooth cats

It's safe to say Northern Illinois University Biological Sciences Professor Virginia Naples has a fascination with cats. She keeps two tabbies at her Hampshire, Ill. home. She also has focused her research ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover important woolly rhino fossil

A paper to be published on September 2, 2011 in the authoritative magazine Science reveals the discovery of a primitive woolly rhino fossil in the Himalayas, which suggests some giant mammals first evolve ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Stranding records are faithful reflection of live whale and dolphin populations: study

Whales are the earth's largest creatures, yet they are incredibly hard to study in the open ocean. For decades scientists have used boats, aircraft and even high cliffs to conduct visual surveys and gather ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Zed's dead: LA museum unearths ice-age mammoth skull

Excited archeologists in California are rubbing their hands: after three years' back-breaking work they are finally, painstakingly revealing the face of Zed, the ice age mammoth.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Scientists dig for Ice Age fossils in Los Angeles

(AP) -- With a dental pick in hand, Karin Rice delicately scraped off a clump of asphalt from a pelvic bone belonging to a horse that roamed Los Angeles tens of thousands of years ago.

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created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Calif. utility stumbles on 1.4M years old fossils

(AP) -- A utility company preparing to build a new substation in an arid canyon southeast of Los Angeles has stumbled on a trove of animal fossils dating back 1.4 million years that researchers say will fill in blanks in ...

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created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Why you should never arm wrestle a saber-toothed tiger

Saber-toothed cats may be best known for their supersized canines, but they also had exceptionally strong forelimbs for pinning prey before delivering the fatal bite, says a new study in the journal PLoS ON ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 03, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists say the American lion is not a lion after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- There has been some debate over the last century or so about whether the extinct American lion, Panthera atrox, which dates from the Pleistocene, is related to present day African lions (Panthera le ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast

They paved paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 25, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Microbes found in natural asphalt lake

(PhysOrg.com) -- A lake of natural hot liquid asphalt in Trinidad and Tobago has been found to be teeming with microbes despite the toxic environment. The lake, aptly named Pitch Lake (since pitch is the old ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 3 report


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