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Ancestor of T rex unearthed
The t-rex's ancestor which lived about 200 million years ago was unearthed in a diggin in southern Poland. It was about 5 meters long and it's biggest tooth was about 7 centimeters long." WARSAW: Paleontologists...
Fleeing misery, they founded Quebec 400 years ago
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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
Certainly an interesting read on the first settlers from France, who helped establish Quebec City 400 years ago.
Quebec's 400th Anniversary though celebrating French...
created by Barry Artiste | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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1820 views | 20 recommendations | 11 comments
Fire guts historic Silicon Valley building
" An early morning fire on Saturday swept through Building 25 at IBM's Cottle Road campus in San Jose, Calif., according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News. The building, which opened in 1957 but had been vacant since 1996, was the site where the flying hard disk...BC Scientists solve mystery of origins of Burgess Shale
Certainly a major importance how British Columbia and vertabrates evolved over 530 million years ago." Scientists solve mystery of origins of Burgess ShaleRandy Boswell, Canwest News...
created by Barry Artiste | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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530 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are cousins
File this under "Who'd a-thunk it?"There's no sign of a family reunion planned, but U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are distant cousins.
So says the vice...
created by nukegingrich | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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1729 views | 22 recommendations | 11 comments
Toothy Find In Ethiopia Changes Evolutionary Assumption :: Oblate Spheroid
"The scientific community, through unearthed fossil evidence, has always assumed that humans evolved from apes. A new fossil may push back the approximate beginning of this split by millions of years.
What...
created by Edmund Jenks | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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353 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Australian Convict Ancestor Database
I would imagine that being a prison colony guard or one of the architects of the land grab in the early days of OZ would be worse in modern eyes than being one of the people dragged into the southern hemisphere in...HOWTO-oo-oo! Chimps Teach Each Other Gadget Use
As do their human cousins, chimpanzees teach each other how to use tools and utilize community-specific social behavior. They have not yet developed call centers, however. Give it time."Chimpanzees readily learn...Dolphin may have 'remains' of legs
TOKYO - Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that...Minghun, i.e. afterlife marriage
"The rural folk custom, startling to Western sensibilities, is known as minghun, or afterlife marriage. Scholars who have studied it say it is rooted in the Chinese form of ancestor worship, which holds that people continue to exist after death and that the living are...Blue whale ancestor was no gentle giant (Reuters)
" OSLO (Reuters) - A ferocious-looking fossil with sharp teeth found in Australia shows that ancestors of today's toothless blue whales were not all "gentle giants," a report said on Wednesday. The 25 million-year-old fossil is of an early type of baleen whale, a group...altruism
If this is true, then selfishness is learned in the home, or develops in the home, when the child is very young.
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