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UK Country 100,000 year old beads Business Personal decoration is not a modern phenomenon. Early Health humans have been fashioning beads for necklaces for millions Science/Nature Email of years. Until now, many researchers believed this type of Technology
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WEATHER Professor Chris Stringer, expert in human origins at the SPORT Natural History Museum in London, has published in this week’s Journal Science, how the beads – made from shells with holes drilled in them were dated.
Fossil birds Amazingly well preserved fossils of a bird-like animals that Your personal information will only be lived over 100 million years ago – during the time of the used for the purposes of administrating this request. dinosaurs – have shown new insights into the origins of modern avian species.
Dr. Jerry D. Harris, Director of Palaeontology at Dixie State College of Utah was part of the group that discovered the remains in a quarry in a remote part of North West China. These exceptionally well preserved fossilised birds have remains of webbed feet and even carbonised feathers.
The species, Gansus yumenensis, as it’s called, is already known to science. But these new specimens are in exceptionally good condition. And show us that they lived an aquatic existence rather like modern grebes and divers
Oman cloud forest Cloud forests obtain moisture from clouds not from rain but rather from condensing the water droplets in the clouds onto their leaves. The water then drips down to the ground where it is taken up by the tree roots or absorbed by the trunk and branches.
The majority of the world’s cloud forests are found in the moist tropics. But there is an exception – in Oman in the Middle East, scientists have classified a seasonal deciduous cloud forest. But it is under threat. Camels are overgrazing in the area and preventing regeneration of the forest when the old trees die.
Rainforests Regeneration Attempts are being made in several countries to regenerate areas devastate by deforestation. The first stage in many of these projects is to find out how the natural system works and regenerates itself.
Science in Action Reporter, Tim Hirsch, went to the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil to find out how forests recover naturally and what the scientists can do to help this process along.
Backwards language of the Aymara people Usually when we talk about the future we gesture and think forwards and the reverse is true when we talk about the past. But this is not the case for a group of South American people called the Aymara. Dr. Rafael Nunez from the University of California, San Diego has been finding out why.
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