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NEWS ABOUT: natural history

natural history stories: 4 news summaries

 Scientists  
 Map DNA 
 of Woolly 
 Mammoth  

Neanderthals, early humans could be next

Nov 19, 08 6:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have pieced together the nearly complete genome of the woolly mammoth from a hair strand found in Siberia, National Geographic reports. It's the first time scientists have decoded the nuclear DNA of an extinct species. The development makes it theoretically possible for the mammoths to roam the earth again... More »

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science • DNA • natural history • genome • woolly mammoth • scientific breakthroughs

Canyon Older Than Thought?

Study says formation began 17M years ago; others stick to 5-6M

Mar 6, 08 7:56 PM CST
(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... More »

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erosion • natural history • uranium • Grand Canyon • half-life dating

Volcanoes Helped Doom Dinos

Research shows extinction resulted from not only an asteroid but volcanoes too

Nov 13, 07 2:42 PM CST
(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... More »

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natural history • extinction • dinosaur • asteroid • volcano

Creationists Open History Museum

On the sixth day, God created dinosaurs,
says curator

May 24, 07 5:40 PM CDT
(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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evolution • religion • creationism • Kentucky • natural history • museum

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