- College Kids Get T. Rex Anatomy All Wrong Megan Gannon, News Editor - LiveScience.com - 18 hrs ago
Even though Tyrannosaurus rex is arguably the most recognizable dinosaur, college students asked to draw the prehistoric beast tend to get it all wrong, researchers … More »College Kids Get T. Rex Anatomy All Wrong
- What Would Happen if Asteroid 2012 DA14 Hit Earth? Miriam Kramer - SPACE.com - Tue, Feb 12, 2013
There is absolutely no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth when it makes its closest approach on Friday (Feb. 15), but many other asteroids like it have made … More »What Would Happen if Asteroid 2012 DA14 Hit Earth?
- Goo Lets Turtle Moms Pause Eggs' Growth Live Science Staff - LiveScience.com - Sun, Feb 10, 2013
Pregnant turtles hit the pause button on their eggs' development until the time is just right to lay them in a nest, researchers say. The careful moms do this by producing … More »Goo Lets Turtle Moms Pause Eggs' Growth
- Asteroid may have killed dinosaurs quicker than scientists thought Irene Klotz - Reuters - Fri, Feb 8, 2013
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Dinosaurs died off about 33,000 years after an asteroid hit the Earth, much sooner than scientists had believed, and the asteroid … More »Asteroid may have killed dinosaurs quicker than scientists thought
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Dinosaurs died off about 33,000 years after an asteroid hit the Earth, much sooner than scientists had believed, and the asteroid may not have been the sole cause of extinction, according to a study released Thursday. Earth's climate may have been at a tipping point when a massive asteroid …
- 150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth, no need to duck MARCIA DUNN - AP - Thu, Feb 7, 2013
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 150-foot-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. … More »150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth, no need to duck
- Tragedy for dinosaurs, opportunity for mammals, us SETH BORENSTEIN - AP - Thu, Feb 7, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — New research pinpoints how the torch passed from one dominant creature on Earth to another, from the brutish dinosaur to the crafty mammal. More »Tragedy for dinosaurs, opportunity for mammals, us
- Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs: New Evidence Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Thu, Feb 7, 2013
The idea that a cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs in what is now Mexico now has fresh new support, researchers say. More »Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs: New Evidence
- Meet Your Mama: First Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Thu, Feb 7, 2013
A tiny, furry-tailed creature is the most complete picture yet as to what the ancestor of mice, elephants, lions, tigers, bears, whales, bats and humans once looked like, … More »Meet Your Mama: First Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed
- Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Dino-Killer That Scientists Laughed At Charles Q. Choi - SPACE.com - Thu, Feb 7, 2013
The main culprit behind the end of the dinosaurs is now widely accepted to be an extraterrestrial collision of epic proportions, one that left behind the gargantuan crater … More »Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Dino-Killer That Scientists Laughed At
The main culprit behind the end of the dinosaurs is now widely accepted to be an extraterrestrial collision of epic proportions, one that left behind the gargantuan crater of Chicxulub at Mexico. Evidence for this theory grows more ironclad over time – yet only 30 years ago it was often thought to be nonsense.
- Half-Million-Year-Old Human Jawbone Found Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Wed, Feb 6, 2013
Scientists have unearthed a jawbone from an ancient human ancestor in a cave in Serbia. More »Half-Million-Year-Old Human Jawbone Found
- Most Species on Earth Could Be Recorded, Study Finds Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Wed, Feb 6, 2013
What strange creatures dwell in the rainforests, at the bottom of the ocean or even in plain sight in our cities? If we don't look, we'll never know, one group of researchers … More »Most Species on Earth Could Be Recorded, Study Finds
- Report: Warming bringing big changes to forests JEFF BARNARD - AP - Tue, Feb 5, 2013
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Big changes are in store for the nation's forests as global warming increases wildfires and insect infestations, and generates more frequent … More »Report: Warming bringing big changes to forests
- Fossil of Flying Dino-Age Reptile Found Megan Gannon - LiveScience.com - Tue, Feb 5, 2013
Scientists say they've discovered the fossilized bones of a new type of pterosaur, a flying dinosaur-age reptile, which lived about 68 million years ago and had a wingspan … More »Fossil of Flying Dino-Age Reptile Found
- Study suggests Neanderthals died out earlier FRANK JORDANS - AP - Mon, Feb 4, 2013
BERLIN (AP) — Theories about when the last Neanderthals walked the Earth may have to be revised, according to a study that suggests they became extinct in their last … More »Study suggests Neanderthals died out earlier
- Oldest Spider Crabs Discovered in Fossil Reef Jeanna Bryner - LiveScience.com - Mon, Feb 4, 2013
The remains of eight new species of crustaceans, including the oldest known spider crabs that lived 100 million years ago, have been uncovered in a fossil reef in northern … More »Oldest Spider Crabs Discovered in Fossil Reef
- Neanderthals Died Out Earlier Than Thought Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Mon, Feb 4, 2013
Neanderthals may have died out earlier than before thought, researchers say. More »Neanderthals Died Out Earlier Than Thought
- Dinosaur Footprints Lifted from NASA's Backyard Megan Gannon, News Editor - LiveScience.com - Mon, Feb 4, 2013
A chunk of stone bearing dinosaur footprints has been carefully lifted from the grounds of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., scientists report. More »Dinosaur Footprints Lifted from NASA's Backyard
- Ancient Tapeworm Eggs Found in Fossilized Shark Poop Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Wed, Jan 30, 2013
Ancient tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old shark poop suggests these parasites may have plagued animals for much longer than previously known, researchers s … More »Ancient Tapeworm Eggs Found in Fossilized Shark Poop
- 13 Tech Terms You Should Never Say Again Avram Piltch, Laptopmag.com - LiveScience.com - Wed, Jan 30, 2013
You’d never describe your USB Flash drive as a floppy disk, even though it serves the same purpose. You wouldn’t think of referring to the network admin who runs your … More »13 Tech Terms You Should Never Say Again
- Ancient 'Super-Croc' Fossil Discovered in Museum Drawer Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Wed, Jan 30, 2013
Long-forgotten remains of a giant dolphin-shaped crocodilian "super-predator" that could devour ancient beasts its size and larger have now been discovered in a museum … More »Ancient 'Super-Croc' Fossil Discovered in Museum Drawer
- Monster Truck Will Shake New Zealand for Safer Buildings Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Tue, Jan 29, 2013
With the tires of a monster truck and guts that pound the ground like a dinosaur, the T-Rex is not just the ultimate Tonka toy. More »Monster Truck Will Shake New Zealand for Safer Buildings
- Did Rise of Ancient Human Ancestor Lead to New Stone Tools? Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Mon, Jan 28, 2013
Scientists have unearthed and dated some of the oldest stone hand axes on Earth. The ancient tools, unearthed in Ethiopia in the last two decades, date to 1.75 million … More »Did Rise of Ancient Human Ancestor Lead to New Stone Tools?
- Antarctic Drilling Team Nabs 1st Samples of Buried Lake Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Mon, Jan 28, 2013
As a sterilized video camera dropped through a borehole in the ice, U.S. scientists camped at Lake Whillans in Antarctica became the first to see the bottom of a lake … More »Antarctic Drilling Team Nabs 1st Samples of Buried Lake
- 'Charities' Funnel Millions to Climate-Change Denial Marc Lallanilla, Assistant Editor - LiveScience.com - Mon, Jan 28, 2013
A British newspaper claims to have discovered the convoluted way oil billionaires in the United States can funnel huge amounts of cash toward climate change-denial campaigns, … More »'Charities' Funnel Millions to Climate-Change Denial
- Tiny Feathered Dinosaur Discovered Live Science Staff - LiveScience.com - Mon, Jan 28, 2013
Researchers have discovered a new species of feathered but flightless little dinosaur from the Jurassic period. More »Tiny Feathered Dinosaur Discovered
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