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Science Archaeology Researchers take Lascaux’s 18,000 year-old dinosaurs’ temperature with teeth cave art under threat (AFP) - They call her Clottes explained Lascaux the Old Lady, for she is had been affected in ways Courtney some 18,000 years old no-one could have predict- and frail, which is why ed 60 or so years ago. Love she is protected by steel “The cave was com- doors, security cameras pletely disturbed,” said Hole singer Courtney Love ex- and the gentlest nurtur- Clottes, 78. perienced a small fire on the top ing the 21st century has “In 1947 alone, they dug floor of her four-story residence to offer. out 600 cubic metres of sed- in Manhattan. Tucked away on a hill- iment to make an entrance side in Montignac, in the and concrete path and in- Becky Weiss: Dordogne region of south- stalled lighting for the pub- probably a small fire from west France, the dame lic.” Six hundred cubic smoking!! give it up!! of Lascaux is an Ice Age metres (22,000 cubic feet) treasure. is the equivalent to about Lori J Ryan: Her walls are covered eight 12-metre (40 foot) doubt she will ever be (Reuters) - Scientists in California say they have with remarkable pictures shipping containers. “OK” for the first time devised a way to accurately take of horses, extinct bison “No prior study was the body temperatures of dinosaurs -- by examining and ibexes, painted when done, and it complete- Donna Carroll: the creatures’ teeth. Man was still a hunter- ly changed the cave’s Sorry Courtney...you’ve Chemical analysis of the Jurassic period fossil gatherer and his survival micro-climate,” sighed got to be more careful with teeth from two sauropods -- long-tailed, long-necked far from certain. visitors a day. he was moved to tears by Clottes. your lab! dinosaurs that rank among the largest land animals But the cave is also at The cave was eventual- the confident strokes of “We altered its balance.” ever to roam the Earth -- showed they were about threat from invisible in- ly closed to the public but black, red and ochre and In its untroubled state, the as warm as most modern mammals. vaders: microbial contami- the damage was done. their witness to the hu- cave’s microscopic flo- But they also were cooler than some experts had nants resulting from some Humans had brought man odyssey. ra had had thousands of predicted for animals of such gigantic size. awful mistakes made last in heat, humidity and mi- He later became a spe- years to reach a truce in The findings from a team led by researchers at century. crobes, upsetting the cave’s cialist in prehistoric wall the battle for habitat. the California Institute of Technology were pub- Discovered by four ecosystem. painting -- and joined the But the introduction of lished Thursday in an online edition of the journal teenagers in 1940, Las- Jean Clottes was one campaign to save the pre- new organisms may have Science. “This is like being able to stick a thermom- caux became a massive of those who had come cious site. upset the peace, enabling eter in an animal that has been extinct for 150 mil- draw after World War II, to gawp. In an extremely rare vis- one species to dominate lion years,” said Robert Eagle, an evolutionary biol- luring as many as 2,000 In 1960 as a young man, it to the cave last week, others, said Clottes. ogist and post-doctoral scholar at Caltech who was Lindsay Lohan lead author of the report. But it leaves unanswered the key question of Actress Lindsay Lohan has been whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded, relying on Champion summoned to court again to de- their environments for heat, or warm-blooded, with termine if she has violated her self-regulated metabolism like modern mammals probation in a 2007 misdemean- and their evolutionary descendants, birds. or DUI case. The two dinosaurs initially selected for study -- Brachiosauraus brancai and camarasaurus -- were Dianne Ward Campbell: close cousins of the massive plant-eating dinosaur It must be an attention known as brontosaurus. thing, I don’t know anyone The temperature of brachiosaurus was measured that likes court that much at 38.2 degrees Celsius. Camarasaurus registered a temperature of 35.7 degrees C. Researchers say those Robbie Bieser: Time for figures are accurate to within 2 degrees Celsius. the “little girl” to GROW While equivalent to the temperature of most mod- UP!!! She needs to spend ern mammals, that range is warmer than modern some time in the LA Coun- and extinct crocodiles and alligators but cooler than ty Corrections for at least birds. 50% of her probation time. Still, because of their sheer enormous size, sauro- pod dinosaurs would be expected to retain their body Theresa Marie Skwarek: heat more efficiently than smaller warm-blooded no ....really ! c’mon seri- animals, like humans, even if dinosaurs themselves ously the girl needs a re- were cold-blooded, Eagle said. ality check to be so young To explain this, researchers suggested the dino- and careless! saurs may have had some physiological or behav- ioral adaptation that allowed them to avoid getting too hot. One possibility is they dissipated excess heat through their long necks and tails.

Health

Nearly 350 million Ghada Marta of San Rafael, California, holds her dog Handsome Hector during the 23rd Annual World’s Ugliest Vin Diesel Dog Contest, California. (AFP) A friend said... “no father’s day diabetics worldwide post - wow you must be really going into Riddick role, cause he (AP) - The number of adults worldwide with dia- is the only one who wouldn’t say betes has more than doubled in three decades, jump- anything.” ing to an estimated 347 million, a new study says. Movies The preparation for the Rid- Much of that increase is due to aging popula- dick character, is always a lone- tions - since diabetes typically hits in middle age - ly path... and population growth, but part of it has also been P.s. Good news incoming on Sexy fueled by rising obesity rates. Legendary "Columbo" actor Six... With numbers climbing almost everywhere, ex- Hope you are well. Count perts said the disease is no longer limited to rich blessings. countries and is now a global problem. Countries in which the numbers rose fastest in- Peter Falk dead at 83 Harpreet Singh Cheema: clude Cape Verde, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Papua New (Reuters) - Peter Falk, The show became a nice one. Guinea, and the United States. star of the 1970s hit TV smash hit after its prime- “Diabetes may well become the defining issue of drama “Columbo,” whose time debut on NBC in global health for the next decade,” said Majid Ezza- role as the rumpled de- 1971 and continued on Mieke Wolfs: ti, chair of global environmental health at Imperial tective of the same name television for many years, looking forward.. College London, one of the study authors. earned him four Emmys, even spawning several TV He noted the figures don’t reflect the generations has died after years of bat- movies later in the actor’s of overweight children and young adults who have tling Alzheimer’s disease. life. Evelyn Smuts: yet to reach middle age. He was 83. His glass eye gave him woah, this gets better and That could create a massive burden on health The actor enjoyed a long an on-screen look that some better... systems. and successful career, first thought was strange for a “We are not at the peak of this wave yet,” he on the stage, then in movies leading man, and he was said. and on television, where forced into a series of sup- “And unlike high blood pressure and cholester- he gained fame as police porting roles. Yet, it was ol, we still don’t have great treatments for diabetes.” lieutenant Columbo, whose that cockeyed facial ex- Still, in Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe, seeming absent-minded- pression that eventually despite growing waistlines, there was only a slight ness was actually a ruse made him a star. rise in diabetes. to cover for his shrewd In “Murder, Inc.” he Experts weren’t sure why and said there could be questioning of suspects was singled out for his several reasons, including worse detection of the dis- and investigations. sheer ability to look more ease, genetic differences, or perhaps the Europeans He earned two nomina- sinister than his peers as were better at getting heavy people to reduce their tions for the film indus- string of Emmy wins that bo” role, as the physical a member of a gang of Ryan Gosling chances of developing diabetes. try’s top honors, the Os- would see him claim U.S. trademark enhanced the killers. Seriously LOVE this pic of Women in Singapore, France, Italy and Switzer- car, for supporting roles in TV’s top honor four more detective’s image as a di- In late 2008, his daughter Ryan Gosling carrying his gi- land remained relatively slim and had virtually no 1960’s “Murder, Inc.” and times as Columbo. sheveled, oddball crime Catherine Falk filed court ant dog up an escalator! And change in their diabetes rates. in “Pocketful of Miracles” As a child, the actor’s sleuth. papers seeking to place his yes, that dog has a mohawk! Numbers also stayed flat in sub-Saharan Africa, the following year. right eye had been sur- The homicide cop’s business and personal af- Get more celeb pics here: central Latin America and rich Asian countries. Falk took hold of his gically removed due to a questions would often fairs under conservatorship http://eonli.ne/jXxuLd Type 2 is the most common type of diabetes and first Emmy trophy in a malignant tumor and was seem disorganized and and away from his wife is often tied to obesity. leading role in a 1961 pro- replaced with a glass eye. out-of-place, but they in- Shera because, Catherine Annie Cavazos: It develops when the body doesn’t produce enough duction of “The Dick Pow- That handicap became, evitably would lead the revealed, he was suffer- SWEET NOW THATS A insulin to break down glucose, inflating blood sug- ell Theater,” and 10 years perhaps, one of Falk’s ma- murderer to help reveal ing from Alzheimer’s and MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ar levels. later, in 1972, he began a jor assets in his “Colum- his guilt. dementia.