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Cape Hatteras island
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New island forms on North Carolina's Atlantic coast A new island has formed off the coast of North Carolina's Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The isle is a mile long (16.km), depending on tides and weather, and separated from the mainland by a (330ft) 100 metre wide channel. It was first spotting by...
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Chinese archaeologists have reported a major dinosaur find in northwest China's Ningxia Hui and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions. In the Lingwu excavation site of Ningxia, they spotted fossils from the diplodocus species that had never been unearthed in Asia before. In the Changji excavation...
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New results shed light on how Antarctica became the icy, barren continent that we know today. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have discovered that 30-50 million years ago, South America and Antarctica split apart very rapidly. This formed the Drake Passage and resulted in a major globa...
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Triassic-Jurassic extinction event
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The Triassic-Jurassic extinction event marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, 199.6 million years ago, and is one of the major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic%...
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Sighthill stone circle
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A local amateur astronomer and science writer is hoping to rejuvenate a stone circle in the shadows of Glasgow's Sighthill tower blocks. Duncan Lunan organised the construction of the circle more than 30 years ago to accurately mirror the rise and fall of the sun and moon over the city. It was claimed...
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Oldest Fossil flying insect
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Tufts University student and a faculty lecturer uncover what they believe is the world's oldest known full-body impression of a primitive flying insect, a 300 million-year-old specimen from the Carboniferous Period. Surprise discovery made in a most unlikely place - behind a suburban strip mal...
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Greenland Sea Quake
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A strong magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred at 15:29:02 (UTC) on Sunday, May 16, 2010, in the Greenland Sea region, 585 km NW of Tromso, Norway, at a Depth of 10 km Location 73.387°N, 7.249°E
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Phytoplankton
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Marine Plankton Found On Surface Of International Space Station Scientists examining samples taken from the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) have made a rather unexpected discovery- traces of marine plankton and other microbes growing on the surface of the illuminators. What...
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USCGC McCulloch
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Military ship that sank century ago won't be pulled from sea A U.S. Coast Guard ship that first set out to sea during the Spanish-American War and sank off the coast of Southern California 100 years ago won't be moved anytime soon, officials said Tuesday. Strong currents and an abundance of sediment w...
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Clava cairn
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The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of 3 cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland. Read more Latitude: 57°28'20.65"N, Longitude: 4° 4'26.60"...
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Turkey Quake
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A strong magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred at 02:32:35 (UTC) on Monday, March 08, 2010, in the eastern Turkey region, 45 km West of Bingol, at a Depth of 10 km Location 38.852°N, 39.949°E
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Homo Sapiens
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Scientists have identified a major climate crisis that struck Africa about 70,000 years ago and which may have changed the course of human history.
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Hunting Dinosaurs
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One of the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs may have hunted in packs according to experts in Argentina.
At least seven T. rex-sized Mapusaurus roseae have been found together in the fossil-rich Patagonia region of the country.
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Archaeobotanists have found evidence that the dawn of agriculture may have come with the domestication of fig trees in the Near East some 11,400 years ago, roughly a thousand years before such staples as wheat, barley, and legumes were domesticated in the region. The discovery dates domesticated...
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 12:53:05 (UTC) on Sunday, November 20, 2005, in the Unimak Island Region, Alaska, 93 km South-South-West (213°) from False Pass, Alaska, at a depth of 52.8 km.
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