Mammoth skeleton found nearly intact in Los Angeles
By Dan Whitcomb Dan Whitcomb Fri Feb 20, 10:54 am ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The nearly complete skeleton of a massive Columbian mammoth who died during the last ice age has been dug out of a construction site near the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown Los Angeles, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fossil’
24 Feb
Mammoth skeleton found nearly intact in Los Angeles
19 Feb
A living fossil found in Namibia
AN ALAVESIA FLY:
Researchers have discovered two living species—so recently that they have yet to be named—of this Alavesia fly, a genus that had previously only been seen preserved in Cretaceous-era amber in Spain and Burma.
18 Feb
Forests absorb 20 percent of fossil fuel emissions: study
LONDON (Reuters) – Tropical trees have grown bigger over the past 40 years and now absorb 20 percent of fossil fuel emissions from the atmosphere, highlighting the need to preserve threatened forests, British researchers said Wednesday.
5 Feb
Ancient fossil find: This snake could eat a cow!
By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Malcolm Ritter, Ap Science Writer – Wed Feb 4, 6:29 pm ET
AP – A handout photo released by Nature magazine shows a Precloacal vertebra of an adult Green Anaconda (Eunectes …
NEW YORK – Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie “Anaconda.” Not even Hollywood could match a new [...]
5 Feb
Largest snake ‘as long as a bus’
By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News
The discovery of fossilised remains belonging to the world’s largest snake has been reported in Nature journal.
Titanoboa was 13m (42ft) long – about the length of a bus – and lived in the rainforest of north-east Colombia 58-60 million years ago.
The snake was so wide it would have [...]
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