Animal world
Plankton - The planet's largest CO2 storage 'store'
Not the land or the trees, the sea is the most effective permanent storage of CO2.
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Archeology
Fossils reveal the colors of insects 99 million years old
Scientists on July 1 announced the discovery of amber fossils from the Cretaceous period still preserve the true colors of ancient insects.
Archeology
China: Going for a walk, stumbling across a 66 million year old dinosaur egg
4 students accidentally discovered 6 dinosaur eggs 66 million years ago when going out in rural areas of Jiangxi province, southern China.
Archeology
Series of dinosaur footprints revealed after storm in England
Scientists found 85 dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous well preserved in humid environments.
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The largest species of prehistoric linghas
Dragon lizard is a large sea lizard family that lived in the late Cretaceous period. The largest species can grow to 18 meters in length.
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No more bringing tons of sand home after the sea trip with the following tips
Smooth sandy beaches are always as beautiful as dreams. But carrying the sand home is a nightmare!
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The 'tips' help clean items effectively
Are you frustrated when things you use for a long time always leave behind
Oceanography
Sex change fish species 20 times a day
Grouper Chalk live in small Caribbean reefs that can change sex up to 20 times a day.
Archeology
China: Digging soil to build, discovered a series of dinosaur eggs of 145 million years
According to local newspaper Zhezhong News, the giant eggs were discovered by a team of excavation workers in Nghia O town last Thursday.
Archeology
Young snakes die hard in amber graves 99 million years
The young snake crawled out of its shell 99 million years ago in Southeast Asia without a chance to grow up. Instead, it was hit by tree sap and eventually died hard in…
Archeology
Discovered the dead body stuck in amber 99 million years
Scientists found a 0.536mm-long creature in a 99 million-year-old amber, Newsweek reported on June 11.
Archeology
The tick sucks dead blood stuck in amber 100 million years
A group of scientists at the University of Kansas discovered that the body sucked blood in amber from the Cretaceous period in Myanmar, Fox News reported on June 18.
Archeology
New research confirms T. rex tyrant dinosaurs have no feathers
Scientists reject the hypothesis that Tyrant T. rex grew like a bird.
Archeology
Fossils of dinosaur eggs 70 million years in China
Fossils of 70 million year old dinosaur eggs were discovered at a construction site in southeast China.
Archeology
Dinosaurs can become extinct by incubating eggs for too long
The reason that dinosaurs cannot survive the mass extinction event in the late Cretaceous period may be because their incubation period is too long.