ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEIn the remote frontiers of Alaska, remains of dinosaurs were found in the least expected of places. Living in the cold frontiers were only a few dinosaurs were thought to exist in these northernmost locations.
Dinosaurs are accepted to be dominant in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, ruled the earth for 135 million years. Many fossils were found that point to many habitats with them existing there.
In the year 1979, the people living near Mount Vesuvius were witness to the fiery guts of the earth. The heat and pyroclastic material entombed the dead for eternity and left their remnants as shapes in hot lava.
A new feathered dinosaur is cited as a step to evolve into birds, and scientists call it "Wulong bohaiensis" or the dancing dragon. Examined by Ashley Poust, who studied the specimen brought the feathered dinosaur to the attention of the scientific community because of what it represented in dinosaur evolution.
The continuous melting of sea ice in the Arctic is, undoubtedly, the effects of climate change. To make matters worse, it seems the Arctic won't go back to its healthy state soon.
Dog owners are lucky because their pets can understand them, humans can make a variety of commands, and dogs know what to do. Are dogs this intuitive and part of their nature, or do they need dog training? Does the owner need to drill in the command to be followed, or is it natural?
Scientists at Duke University are studying earthquakes and have devised a “Proposed Melting Rocks” model that will foresee the initial movement of rock begins in several kinds of bedrock. Prior to developing this model for earthquakes, there was much guessing into what is happening under everyone’s feet.
Creating a complete conservation plan is not easy, as any scientist would attest. In the recent study published in Biotropica, scientists are reminding everyone of these two important surveying models.
A crocodile’s jaw and the bite force it has can crush anything. Along with the great white shark, this animal is one of the few apex predators in nature with such a feature.
In a new study published by scientists from Duke University describes how male swamp sparrows recognize the age of a rival male swamp sparrow through their songs.
Nowadays, it is commonplace to hear various animal sounds everywhere. But ever wondered how all those sounds came to be? That is the thought that John Weins and Zhuo Chen had when they published "The Origins of Acoustic Communication".