- Why Vultures Devoured Hiker's Body in Minutes Marc Lallanilla, Life's Little Mysteries Assistant Editor - LiveScience.com - 2 hrs 4 mins ago
A flock of vultures devoured the body of a woman just minutes after she fell to her death while hiking in the Pyrenees Mountains in France. More »Why Vultures Devoured Hiker's Body in Minutes
A flock of vultures devoured the body of a woman just minutes after she fell to her death while hiking in the Pyrenees Mountains in France.
- A Real Bonehead: Dome-Skulled Dino Discovered Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - 3 hrs ago
A newly discovered dome-headed, dog-size dinosaur suggests that small dinos were more diverse than paleontologists have realized. More »A Real Bonehead: Dome-Skulled Dino Discovered
- Before Babel? Ancient Mother Tongue Reconstructed Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - 4 hrs ago
The ancestors of people from across Europe and Asia may have spoken a common language about 15,000 years ago, new research suggests. More »Before Babel? Ancient Mother Tongue Reconstructed
- Disputed Dino Fossils Formally Returned to Mongolia Wynne Parry, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - 23 hrs ago
NEW YORK — The dinosaur skeleton that sparked an international custody battle began its journey home today (May 6), as Mongolian officials formally took possession of … More »Disputed Dino Fossils Formally Returned to Mongolia
- U.S. returning looted Tyrannosaurus skeleton to Mongolia Deborah Zabarenko - Reuters - Mon, May 6, 2013
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton from the Gobi Desert that was smuggled to the United States in pieces and auctioned … More »U.S. returning looted Tyrannosaurus skeleton to Mongolia
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton from the Gobi Desert that was smuggled to the United States in pieces and auctioned for more than $1 million was returned on Monday by the U.S. government to Mongolia. The huge Tyrannosaurus bataar's skull was on display at a repatriation …
- T. Rex Troubles: The Last Dino Legal Battle Wynne Parry, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Sun, May 5, 2013
Almost a year ago, headlines proclaiming the sale of a largely complete -like dinosaur sparked an international custody battle that featured a confrontation at a public … More »T. Rex Troubles: The Last Dino Legal Battle
Almost a year ago, headlines proclaiming the sale of a largely complete -like dinosaur sparked an international custody battle that featured a confrontation at a public auction, a federal seizure of the fossils, charges related to smuggling against Eric Prokopi, the man who attempted to sell them — and, finally, his guilty …
- New technology propels 'old energy' boom JONATHAN FAHEY - AP - Sat, May 4, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade — just not the one we expected. More »New technology propels 'old energy' boom
- Greenhouse Gas to Reach 3-Million-Year High Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - Fri, May 3, 2013
The proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is set to break 400 parts per million this month, levels not seen in 3 million years, according to one of the best … More »Greenhouse Gas to Reach 3-Million-Year High
- Tiny Baby Dinosaur Discovered in China Megan Gannon, News Editor - LiveScience.com - Fri, May 3, 2013
Scientists have discovered the fossilized skeleton of a baby dinosaur representing a new species of coelurosaur, a group of theropods that includes ancient beasts like … More »Tiny Baby Dinosaur Discovered in China
- Killer Cave Lured Ancient Carnivores to Their Death Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Wed, May 1, 2013
A cavern in Spain may have lured ancient carnivores to their deaths by offering the promise of food and water, new research suggests. More »Killer Cave Lured Ancient Carnivores to Their Death
- Plumes of Molten Rock Could Drive Biodiversity, Climate Cycles Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor - LiveScience.com - Wed, May 1, 2013
Giant pillars of hot molten rock from near Earth's core might help drive major cycles in the diversity of life on the planet and the global climate, according to one … More »Plumes of Molten Rock Could Drive Biodiversity, Climate Cycles
- Feathered Dinos Were Diverse Like Darwin's Finches Megan Gannon, News Editor - LiveScience.com - Wed, May 1, 2013
Flightless feathered dinosaurs with parrotlike beaks and long, skinny claws that scampered around North America may have been the Darwin's finches of the Late Cretaceous … More »Feathered Dinos Were Diverse Like Darwin's Finches
- Weird Dino Ancestors Boomed After Mass Extinction Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - Mon, Apr 29, 2013
Dinosaurs — or at least their ancestors — may have gotten an earlier start than once believed. More »Weird Dino Ancestors Boomed After Mass Extinction
- Eww! Early Earth Smelled Like Rotten Eggs Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - Mon, Apr 29, 2013
Kids like to taunt each other with the cry, "Last one there is a rotten egg!" In Earth's case, that might be more true of the first ones there, according to a new study … More »Eww! Early Earth Smelled Like Rotten Eggs
- Supervolcano Not to Blame for Humanity's Near-Extinction Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor - LiveScience.com - Mon, Apr 29, 2013
A supervolcanic eruption thought to have nearly driven humanity extinct may not have endangered the species after all, a new investigation suggests. More »Supervolcano Not to Blame for Humanity's Near-Extinction
- Madagascar Dinosaur Fills 95-Million-Year Fossil Gap Marc Lallanilla, Assistant Editor - LiveScience.com - Fri, Apr 26, 2013
A new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar has been identified. More »Madagascar Dinosaur Fills 95-Million-Year Fossil Gap
- Crouching Bird, Hidden Evolutionary Purpose? Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Wed, Apr 24, 2013
Birds can hold their wings high because of the strange way they crouch, and now scientists say the origins of this folded posture may provide insight into the evolution … More »Crouching Bird, Hidden Evolutionary Purpose?
- 5 Technologies That Will Change the World in 2013 David Mielach, BusinessNewsDaily Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Tue, Apr 23, 2013
Keeping up with the newest technologies can be a challenge for even the most tech-savvy business owners and entrepreneurs. However, that challenge got a bit easier, thanks … More »5 Technologies That Will Change the World in 2013
Keeping up with the newest technologies can be a challenge for even the most tech-savvy business owners and entrepreneurs. However, that challenge got a bit easier, thanks to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review, which today (April 23) released the 10 technologies they expect to change the world …
- Humans Show Empathy for Robots Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Tue, Apr 23, 2013
From R2-D2 in "Star Wars" to Furby, robots can generate surprisingly humanlike feelings. Watching a robot being abused or cuddled has a similar effect on people to seeing … More »Humans Show Empathy for Robots
- Could Biofuels Help Power Jets? Charles Q. Choi, TechNewsDaily Contributor - LiveScience.com - Mon, Apr 22, 2013
A new synthetic type of biofuel created by mixing and matching bits of DNA from different organisms could one day replace diesel and jet fuel, scientists say. More »Could Biofuels Help Power Jets?
- Ancient Snail Shells Hint at Future Global Warming Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - Mon, Apr 22, 2013
A major global cooling event 34 million years ago chilled land as well as sea, according to climate clues found in an unusual place: fossil snail shells. More »Ancient Snail Shells Hint at Future Global Warming
- Survival of the Funniest: Celebrating Bad Evolutionary Theory Michael Dhar, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Fri, Apr 19, 2013
Update: This festival has been postponed due to a lockdown in Boston. More »Survival of the Funniest: Celebrating Bad Evolutionary Theory
Update: This festival has been postponed due to a lockdown in Boston.
- Dinos Sat on Nests Like Birds, Shells Reveal Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - Fri, Apr 19, 2013
Dinosaurs laid eggs, of that there is no doubt. But what scientists haven't been as clear on is whether they brooded over their eggs like birds or buried them like c … More »Dinos Sat on Nests Like Birds, Shells Reveal
- 8 Scientists Named to TIME's 100 Influential People List Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Thu, Apr 18, 2013
Several scientists made TIME Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2013. More »8 Scientists Named to TIME's 100 Influential People List
- New US Natural Landmarks Relics of America's Past Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor - LiveScience.com - Wed, Apr 17, 2013
The National Park Service has designated two new national natural landmarks that stand as relics of ecosystems that were once widespread in the United States. More »New US Natural Landmarks Relics of America's Past
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