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Provides coverage of disease, space and science news.
- Added on: Feb 25th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Science Technology
- Tags: animals weather space globalwarming NASA global+warming
Recent Posts
When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs
National Geographic will air "When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs" - an episode of Expedition Week - on November 21st. Some hundred million years ago, crocodiles were the ruling T. rexes of the waters. They galloped on land, ambushed prey at the river's edge...
Octopus Pretends to be Seaweed
This video by Brian Wysor shows an octopus cleverly camouflaging itself amongst seaweed at Wild Cane Bay in Bocas del Toro. During part of the video the octopus even mimics the movement of the seeweed in the water. Take a look: (via Boing Boing) ...
Beautiful Bug Photography by Thomas Shahan
Thomas Shahan takes beautiful photographs of fairly common insects and spiders. Pictured above is a closeup photograph of a leafhopper. You can see many of his photos here on Flickr. Al Roker recently talked to Thomas Shahan about his growing colle...
Pebble Toad\'s Amazing Escape From Toad Eating Tarantula
Here is a video of amazing pebble toad in action from the BBC. The pebble toad has an amazing defensive skill. When it is threatened the pebble toad curls up like a ball and throws itself down the mountain. Bouncing down the rocky cliffs doesn't hurt...
NASA Captures Rare Footage of the Sun Erupting
NASA's twin Stereo spacecraft Behind and Ahead captured rare footage of the Sun erupting over a 30 hour period. The footage is from September 26-27, 2009. Take a look: Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds ...
Chipmunk-Sized Creataceous Mammal Fossil Discovered
A recently discovered Cretaceous mammal called maotherium is a chipmunk-sized nocturnal mammal that lived 123 million years ago. The chipmunk-sized creature had terrestrial habits and scampered around on the ground. Maotherium weighed about 2 ounce...
