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Local readers log over half a million minutes in library summer program
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (232+ words) Local bookworms logged more than half a million minutes of reading this season as the Joe Barnhart Bee County Library wrapped up its summer reading program on July 24. This year's program drew 429 registered participants who submitted a total of 738 reading…...
The 1860 Oxford Evolution Debate: What Really Happened Behind Science's Most Famous Showdown?
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (571+ words) Home » Viewpoints » The 1860 Oxford Evolution Debate: What Really Happened Behind Science’s Most Famous Showdown? By Yuan Shan, Vision Times On June 30, 1860, just seven months after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, hundreds of scientists, clergy, scholars, and members…...
Ancient Mammoth Remains Unearthed in Bulgaria's Danube: A Scientific Discovery | Science-Environment
7+ hour, 53+ min ago (217+ words) Ancient Mammoth Remains Unearthed in Bulgaria's Danube: A Scientific Discovery Devdiscourse Ancient Mammoth Remains Unearthed in Bulgaria's Danube: A Scientific Discovery The remains of a mammoth were discovered in northern Bulgaria as Danube River levels reached a historic low, revealing…...
Ancient turtle hunting could inform modern conservation throughout Southern Caribbean, SFU study
5+ hour, 29+ min ago (564+ words) Despite the promise of rebounding green sea turtle numbers, many sea turtle populations continue to flounder under the pressures of changing climates, overfishing and urbanization. A new study, published in The Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, is the first to…...
Ancient Mammoth Bones Found as Danube Water Levels Drop
6+ hour, 3+ min ago (162+ words) A local resident discovered the ancient remains of what is believed to be a mammoth along the receded bed of the Danube River near Ryahovo village in northern Bulgaria on July 29, as reported by Yahoo. Severe drought and heat waves…...
Dinosaur exhibit wraps up library summer program
3+ hour, 50+ min ago (84+ words) Boerne Star Dinosaur exhibit wraps up library summer program “ Dinosaur George” Blasing, a self-taught paleontologist and animal behaviorist, brought his traveling museum to the Heath Public Library Saturday as part of the library’s summer program finale. The traveling museum showcases…...
Cortez, Mancos, Dolores libraries conclude summer of dinos
3+ hour, 29+ min ago (634+ words) As July hurries to a close, libraries in Dolores, Mancos and Cortez are concluding their paleontology- and archaeology-themed programming, which staff say brought excited kids of all ages to these cherished public institutions. “The kids have loved it,” Hannah Carloni…...
Spectacular fossil preserves internal organs of ancient marine reptile
4+ hour, 14+ min ago (448+ words) A tiny, long-necked marine predator that lived 245 million years ago is the oldest reptile ever found with an intact digestive system. The exquisitely preserved fossil, including almost the entire skeleton as well as the stomach, liver and intestines, was found…...
Scientists find a fossil that turns out to be the first-ever dinosaur in Antarctica
6+ hour, 28+ min ago (881+ words) Antarctica keeps its fossils hidden. Thick ice blankets nearly the whole continent, which leaves geologists with barely any exposed rock to search. This means the continent holds the thinnest dinosaur record on Earth. For years a single small bone might…...
Mammoth remains revealed in Bulgaria after Danube water levels hit record low
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (35+ words) SOFIA, July 29 () - The remains of what is believed to be an ancient mammoth have been revealed in northern Bulgaria, after Danube River water levels receded to a record low level, the BTA news age......