News tagged with treasure trove
Tree resin captures evolution of feathers on dinosaurs and birds
Secrets from the age of the dinosaurs are usually revealed by fossilized bones, but a University of Alberta research team has turned up a treasure trove of Cretaceous feathers trapped in tree resin. The resin ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Scientists stumble on ancient Timor rock art
Scientists hunting for fossils of giant rats in East Timor stumbled on unique rock carvings up to 12,000 years old, Australia's research agency said.
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Feb 11, 2011 |
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World record find: Oldest evidence of lobsters living together discovered in gas shale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Discovering direct animal behavior from the fossil record can only be done in exceptional circumstances. Such circumstances exist in the German Posidonia gas shale from the Jurassic period ...
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Mar 08, 2012 |
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Stone tools, rare animal bones discovered -- clues to Caribbean's earliest inhabitants
A prehistoric water-filled cave in the Dominican Republic has become a "treasure trove" with the announcement by Indiana University archaeologists of the discovery of stone tools, a small primate skull in ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Found: Heart of darkness
Astronomers using the 10-meter Keck II telescope in Hawaii have confirmed in a new paper that a troupe of about 1,000 small, dim stars just outside the Milky Way comprise the darkest known galaxy, as well ...
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Fossil finds help fill in Romer's Gap
(PhysOrg.com) -- A collection of new fossil finds in Scotland that date back to the 15 million year period between 345 and 360 million years ago are helping to fill the almost blank fossil record during a ...
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Mar 06, 2012 |
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Study of soil effects from March 11 Japan earthquake could improve building design
Japan's March 11 Tohoku Earthquake is among the strongest ever recorded, and because it struck one of the world's most heavily instrumented seismic zones, this natural disaster is providing scientists with ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 18, 2011 |
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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
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Bringing dinosaur tracks back to light
The 600 footprints from the Jurassic period displayed beneath a domed exhibit center at Dinosaur State Park tell only part of their story.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 22, 2012 |
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It's for the birds: Historical bird files give insight into climate change
On Nov. 1, 1933, Mrs. Bruce Reid recorded seeing both a male and female ivory-billed woodpecker in Texas. And on May 28, 1938, Oscar McKinley Bryans observed a ruby-throated hummingbird in Michigan, noting that the birds ...
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Scientists forecast forest carbon loss
For more than 30 years, scientists at the Harvard Forest have scaled towers into the forest canopy and measured the trunks of trees to track how much carbon is stored or lost from the woods each year. This treasure trove ...
Apr 06, 2012 |
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AP unveils 'treasure trove' of historical footage
(AP) -- The Associated Press is digitizing and has begun to release a "treasure trove" of historical film footage from the 1960s and '70s that had been sitting in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's former World War II headquarters ...
Jul 02, 2009 |
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New technique used to discover new viruses in poultry
In a search to find better ways to control viral enteric diseases in birds, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have unearthed a treasure trove of previously known and unknown viruses in poultry ...
May 18, 2012 |
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