The world needs a new deal to protect its natural environment
<i>National Geographic</i>’s Chris Fischer and other scientists have been re-issued research permits after the death of a body boarder in Cape Town.
Ocearch says its work could help to save human lives in the sea.
Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big, greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota’s state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all. It’s among just a few mummified dinosaurs in the world, say researchers.
An extinct population of small-bodied humans has been found on the Palau group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, a University of the Witwatersrand researcher said on Tuesday. Palaeoanthropologist professor Lee Berger discovered the fossils while vacationing in Palau in 2006. ”We were on a kayak excursion when a guide asked me if I wanted to see a cave with some old bones.”