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  • March 2008

    • Canyon Older Than Thought?

      Washington Post  |  Mar 6, 08 7:56 PM CST

      Canyon Older Than Thought?

      (Newser) - The Grand Canyon might be three times older than previously thought, the Washington Post reports. A study in Science claims that a river—not the Colorado, but a smaller one—began carving the oldest part of the canyon 17 million years ago. It contends that the canyon-building greatly accelerated 5 or 6 million years ago, which is why most geologists use that time frame as its age. More »

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      uranium  • Grand Canyon  • erosion  • natural history

  • November 2007

    • Volcanoes Helped Doom Dinos

      LiveScience  |  Nov 13, 07 2:42 PM CST

      Volcanoes Helped Doom Dinos

      (Newser) - Not one but two catastrophic events may have spelled destruction for the Age of Dinosaurs, previously thought to have ended when an asteroid or comet struck the earth. New research suggests the prehistoric giants died off in “an unfortunate coincidence of a one-two punch—of Deccan volcanism and then a hit from space," said a Princeton paleontologist. More »

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      extinction  • volcano  • asteroid  • dinosaurs  • natural history

  • May 2007

    • Creationists Open History Museum

      New York Times  |  May 24, 07 5:40 PM CDT

      Creationists Open History Museum

      (Newser) - A $27 million museum opening in Kentucky next week promises a different kind of take on natural history: a biblical one. At the Creation Museum, the Earth is 6,000 years old, evolution is a yarn, and dinosaurs were booked on Noah's Ark. More »

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      religion  • evolution  • Kentucky  • museum  • creationism  • natural history

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