BERLIN.- A team of scientists, comprising members from Berlin’s Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Universität Greifswald, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Sta…
Online Access to the Plants of the World Is Available
WASHINGTON, DC.- For centuries, jungle explorers from Europe and North America have created art of the plants they discover—pressing bright flowers and green tendrils onto herbarium sheets for prestigious museums and plant collections. But scienti…
Metropolitan Museum Launches Connections Series of Online Episodes Featuring Museum Staff
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art launches Connections today, a new online interactive feature that highlights the perspectives and insights of Museum staff on works of art in the Metropolitan’s collection. Connections is presented as …
Raptor-like Dinosaur Discovered in Eastern Utah
By: Josh Loftin, Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (AP).- A small, feathered raptor-like dinosaur thought to be 125 million years old has been discovered in eastern Utah, scientists announced Thursday. The Geminiraptor suarezarum was bipedal and, lik…
Many Scientists Believe Hunters May Have Delivered Fatal Blow to Mammoths
CHERSKY, RUSSIA (AP).- During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago — in the span of a geological heartbeat, or a few hundred years — the last of them disapp…
Dinosaur Die-off Cleared way for Gigantic Mammals
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) – They just needed some leg room: New research shows the great dinosaur die-off made way for mammals to explode in size — some more massive than several elephants put together. The largest land mammal ever: A rhinoceros-like …
Science Museum in London to Debut New Permanent Climate Science Gallery
LONDON.- The Science Museum, London, will open a new permanent climate science gallery – ‘atmosphere: exploring climate science’ on 4 December 2010. ‘atmosphere’ will provide a dedicated space for Science Museum visitors to deepen t…
Science Museum in London to Debut New Permanent Climate Science Gallery
LONDON.- The Science Museum, London, will open a new permanent climate science gallery – ‘atmosphere: exploring climate science’ on 4 December 2010. ‘atmosphere’ will provide a dedicated space for Science Museum visitors to deepen t…
Scientists Attempt to Solve the Mystery of Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Sudden Death
PRAGUE (AP).- Scientists who have exhumed the remains of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe say tests aimed at solving the mystery of his sudden death will take until next year. An international team opened his tomb this week in the Church of Our Lady Befor…
Denver Museum Prepares for Next Steps in Scientific Analysis of the Ice Age Fossil Site
DENVER, CO.- After a month of frenetic activity, Denver Museum of Nature & Science scientists and volunteers have finished their initial excavation of the Ice Age fossil site discovered at Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village, and have returned to t…