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Espécie de preá sobrevive sem variedade genética
18/03/2009 – 09h54 RICARDO MIOTOcolaboração para a Folha de S.Paulo Pesquisadores brasileiros descobriram uma espécie que, após 8.000 anos isolada mantendo uma população de cerca de 40 indivíduos, praticamente não apresenta mais diversidade genética. Os animais são tão parecidos entre si que um teste de paternidade através do DNA, como o utilizado em humanos, não Read more
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Earth, 60 million years ago
This is an artistic representation of the tropical forest in NE Colombia, 60 million years ago. The spotted serpent is a 13 meters long “Titanoboa cerrejonensis”, more than twice the size of modern days Brazilian beauties Sucuri (Anaconda) and Jobóia. Dr. Johathan Bloch recently led a team of international scientists to the caverns of Read more
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The Real Cleopatra, at last
** using citations from: The Daily Mail article by Fiona MacRaeThe Daily Telegraph reporter It always bothered me not only the Hollywoodian view of Cleopatra and all Egyptian Civilization but mostly the popular modern western world view of both Classical and Ptolemaic Egypt. History and Science will always make justice. Egyptologist Sally Ann Ashton believes Read more
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Hellish hairy sea monster cast ashore
A strange ugly sea monster was cast ashore in Guinea. The partially decomposed monster has 4 paws, a tail and long fur The scientists who examined the creature said that they had already seen such animals before, but they have no clue to their definition. Read more
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‘Deepest ever’ living fish filmed
By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News The "deepest ever" living fish have been discovered, scientists believe. A UK-Japan team found the 17-strong shoal at depths of 7.7km (4.8 miles) in the Japan Trench in the Pacific – and captured the deep sea animals on film. The scientists have been using remote-operated landers designed to Read more
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2008 USA Baseball Team Roster
# Name Pos B/T Ht. Wt. Birthplace Team/School 40 Anderson, Brett P L/L 6-4 215 Midland, TX Midland (Athletics Double-A) 34 Arrieta, Jake P R/R 6-4 225 Farmington, MO Frederick (Orioles Class A) 18 Barden, Brian IF R/R 5-11 185 Templeton, CA Memphis (Cardinals Triple-A) 17 Brown, Matthew IF R/R 6-0 200 Bellevue, WA Read more
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Polar Bear playing with a Sled Dog in Manitoba
I came across today with these 2006 pictures by German wildlife photographer Norbert Rosing (National Geographic) that travels regularly to Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada to photograph Polar Bears. During that specific trip, Mr. Rosing photographed and published (as The World of the Polar Bear) a collection of images that follows a family of Read more
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The Montauk Monster
Last week news sites and blogs were flooded with pictures from Montauk Beach in NYC showing a dead animal instantly nicknamed as the Montauk Monster. Showing the features of a pig (wild boar, wild pig, etc are not discarded) all these web places are feeding our imagination with X-Files like hypothesis, typical of the Internet Read more
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Welcome to Seattle
Sunny Seattle Summer Day still means brrr.C’mon guys, it’s middday midsummer, let’s talk about heat. Read more