Dinosaur-bird fossil discovery ruffles feathers in outback Queensland
Dinosaur-bird fossil discovery ruffles feathers in outback Queensland Updated April 19, 2017 16:48:47 In a dry outback quarry, 500 kilometres from Australia's east coast, a volunteer has unearthed Richmond's first dinosaur-bird, a species previously unseen in what was Australia's inland sea.Patrick Smith, curator of Richmond's Kronosaurus Korner, said the discovery of the 100-million-year-old bones occurred in a free fossil site, 12 kilometres from town. "It's very, ver..>> view originalSouth Aust satellite blasts into space
Australian Associated PressAn Adelaide-built satellite is bound for the International Space Station where it will play a key role in studying the upper reaches of earth's atmosphere.The CubeSat miniaturised satellite is the work of 50 University of Adelaide students and staff, and will join a network of 50 similar satellites to be deployed into the thermosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between 95 and 500 kilometres from the earth.The satellite blasted into space on board a NASA Atlas V rocke..>> view originalScientists find giant, elusive clam known as 'the unicorn of molluscs'
For hundreds of years, biologists knew of the giant shipworm only from shell fragments and a handful of dead specimens. Those specimens, despite being preserved in museum jars, had gone to mush. Still, the shipworm's scattered remains made an outsized impression on biologists. Its 91-centimetre-long tubular shells - the shipworm isn't technically a worm but a bivalve - were so striking that Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus included the animal in his book that introduced the scientific naming sy..>> view originalKilometre-long asteroid 2014-JO25 - named 'The Rock' - to fly past Earth on Thursday
A huge asteroid travelling at 33 kilometres a second will sail past the Earth on Thursday morning, reminding us all that the universe is a very dynamic and potentially dangerous place."This tells us how active space is - it's not static," said Brad Tucker, an astronomer at the Australian National University. Play Video Don't Play Up Next Meet the giant shipworm Play Video Don't Play More Science Videos Previous slide Next slide Large asteroid to fly past ..>> view originalExtremely rare vision emerges of Antarctic blue whales eating
US researchers have managed to capture the world's largest sea creature feasting on their only type of prey off New Zealand's coast. Oregon State University researchers captured the video of a rare Antarctic blue whale turning on its side to lunge and feed on a large group of krill. Researchers were able to conclude that the whales make calculated decisions over whether to expend energy lunging for the krill after comparing the drone footage to previous vision where a whale swam right past a sc..>> view originalAbrupt glacier melt causes Canadian river to vanish in four days
Abrupt glacier melt causes Canadian river to vanish in four days Updated April 19, 2017 12:24:13 A vast glacier-fed river which flowed from Canada's Yukon territory across Alaska to drain into the Bering Sea has disappeared in just four days, in what scientists believe is the first observed case of "river piracy".High average temperatures in the first three months of 2016 caused a dramatic spike in the amount of meltwater flowing from the Kaskawulsh glacier, carving a d..>> view originalGalaxy's hydrogen halo hides missing mass
What the Milky Way might look like to intergalactic alien astronomers: the spiral galaxy NGC 2683.ESA/Hubble/NASAThe Milky Way is surrounded by a vast halo of diffuse hydrogen, new research has revealed.The discovery of the halo, by astronomers Huanian Zhang and Dennis Zaritsky from the University of Arizona, confirms earlier predictions regarding the difference between the observed and theoretical masses of the galaxy. The finding was made after analysing data obtained from 732,225 other galax..>> view originalIce Age megafauna were killed by English-style drizzly weather, research suggests
Ice Age megafauna were killed by English-style drizzly weather, research suggests By Alan Cooper, Matthew Wooller and Tim Rabanus-Wallace Posted April 19, 2017 13:35:10 Wet weather at the end of the last ice age appears to have helped drive the ecosystems of large grazing animals, such as mammoths and giant sloths, extinct across vast swathes of Eurasia and the Americas, according to our new research.The study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution today, s..>> view originalRising seas could push some U.S. migration to areas far from coast: study
A beachgoer photographs the waves as a band of Hurricane Matthew arrives in Daytona Beach Thomson Reuters By Tom James SEATTLE (Reuters) - Rising sea levels caused by climate change may drive U.S. coastal residents to areas far from the seaboard, not just to adjacent inland regions, according to a study published online in the journal Nature Climate Change. Even landlocked states such as Arizona and Wyoming could see significant increases in population because of co..>> view originalA Trail Of Strange Physics Results Offers Tantalising Hints Of New Particles
Conceptually, particle physics experiments are surprisingly simple. Smash a buttload of particles together, and look at what comes out. The results will either confirm whatever the business-as-usual theory is, or, if there's a really crystal clear deviation from that theory, they might prove some new hypothesis about some new particles. But the middle ground, where the difference between what we know and what we see is still fuzzy, is where a lot of results live. A computer reconstruction of t..>> view original
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