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Category Archives: science
Flight from the killing field
She made it. She has survived the killing fields of India and if everything has gone well is most likely resting somewhere on the coast of Somalia. To those around the world she is known simply as 95778, an Amur … Continue reading
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Tagged amur falcon, amur killings, bird watching, Nagaland, science
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In search of a prehistoric hamster
Today is the start of a journey that might just end with us discovering just how destructive our ancestors really were. Palaeontologist Dr Adam Yates is heading off to Darwin in Australia to find something that once looked like a … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Yates, Australia, Bone, Darwin, Darwin Northern Territory, Diprotodon, Paleontology, science, Woolly mammoth
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Those mystery predators and the man who finds them
Dr Adam Yates has a knack for finding monsters. In the northern Free State, in South Africa a couple of years ago he was part of the dig team that found a 10 cm long serrated fang, that belonged to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Yates, carnivore X, Dinosaur, Fossil, Paleontology, science, The Claw
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The alien squatting in my garage
It came from the forests of Patagonia and now it lurks in my garage. This beast is ancient and it has travelled a long way. Back in the 1400s it slipped on board a ship and headed for the Old … Continue reading
The world’s oldest use of poison
And the embargo breaks…scientists can now reveal that they have found the world’s oldest known use of poison. Traces of ricin were discovered on a 20000-year-old wooden stick that was excavated at Border Cave in Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa. The … Continue reading
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Tagged earliest poison, poison, Ricin, San Bushman, science
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Scientists reveal the development of a world first open access laboratory.
It is just your normal CT scanner sitting in a hospital but it has allowed scientists to peer into a big lump of rock and discover some of the rarest fossils in the world. Tonight in Shanghai China a group … Continue reading
A first ever peek at what was on the dinner table two million years ago.
It is the stuff dentists scrape off teeth every day and now it has allowed a bunch of scientists to take a peek at what was on the menu two million years ago. The embargo has just broken on the … Continue reading
