The 'North Entrance' on Dover's Western Heights consists of a blocked-off road tunnel and the skeletal remains of two single-lane bridges. Hardly the stuff, one might think, to be worth risking life and limb for...
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On the hills above East Cliff the Norman Keep of Dover Castle forms part of a famous skyline known throughout the world. On the other side of the of the Dour Valley, however, very, very few local people - yet...
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'The Bermuda Triangle: Beneath the Waves' - An online BBC Television Documentary which includes a dramatic re-enactment of the disappearance of 'Flight 19' (see the background info at the video link below) and...
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On January 25th 2007 officials from the Tokyo Sea Life Park went out into Tokyo Bay after a 'prehistoric' and rare Goblin Shark had become entangled in fishermen's nets at a depth of about 550...
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"Is the hobbit a new human species or nothing more than a modern human with a crippling deformity?"Watch the video hereFrom the BBC website:On the far-flung island of Flores, in the Indonesian archipelago, a team of archaeologists happened upon a tiny 18,000-year...
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'Unlocking the Mystery of Life' - The scientific case for Intelligent Design - is produced by Illustra Media:"Time, chance, and natural selection. Since Darwin, biologists have relied on such processes to account for the origin of living things. Yet today, this...
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BBC Horizon: 'A War on Science' was broadcast on BBC Two at 2100GMT on Thursday, 26 January 2006From the BBC News report "Britons unconvinced on evolution":Just under half of Britons accept the theory of evolution as the best description for the development of life, according...
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Increasingly scientists are discovering unusual mechanisms by which fish make and hear secret whispers, grunts and thumps to attract mates and ward off the enemy.In just one bizarre instance, seahorses create clicks by tossing their heads. They snap the rear edge of their...
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A fossil of a leaf-imitating insect from 47 million years ago bears a striking resemblance to the mimickers of today.The discovery represents the first fossil of a leaf insect (Eophyllium messelensis), and also...
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The giraffe's elongated neck has long been used in textbooks as an illustration of evolution by natural selection, but this common example has received very little experimental attention.In the January 2007...
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The oldest-known animal eggs and embryos, whose first pictures made the cover of Nature in 1998, were so small they looked like bugs - which, it now appears, they may have been.This week, a study in the same prestigious journal presents evidence for reinterpreting the 600...
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From The Hankyoreh (Korea): An international team supported by the Gyeonggi provincial government has excavated a rare dinosaur fossil in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.Hwaseong City in Gyeonggi Province and an international dinosaur excavation team led by Lee Yung-nam, a...
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From BBC News (UK): Scientists have witnessed the extreme lifestyle of tonguefish that like to skip across pools of molten sulphur (sulfur).The animals - a type of flatfish** - were filmed on three expeditions to...
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A new report from the U.S. House of Representatives has condemned officials at the Smithsonian Institution for imposing a religious test on scientists who work there. And it suggests their attacks on a scientist who just edited an article on intelligent design are just the...
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A heat-loving archaeon capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth's earliest lineages of organisms capable of nitrogen fixation, perhaps even...
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The Discovery of Dover's Lost 'Miniature Castle'