Dinosaur gases made the world warmer A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago. The research published Monday in Current Biology suggests that large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect back then. Study author David Wilkinson […]
May 8 2012 | Posted in
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This article is a continuance of ‘Discovery of a unique cave in Spain – Part 1’. The zaccagnaita was discovered in 2001 in Carrara (Italy) and the authors who described the mineral species only managed a few crystals of microscopic size as the mineral is extremely rare. This mineral is not like the cave of […]
Apr 14 2012 | Posted in
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A research team composed of specialists from the Geological Survey of Spain and the Complutense University of Madrid has discovered in the cave The polytype Soplao. A new mineral, zaccagnaita-3R , unique in the world by being the first reported case of a zaccagnaita formed in a cave, which turns this into a new mineral […]
Apr 14 2012 | Posted in
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Oil diggers discover a dinosaur Syncrude Canada Ltd. is considered to be the world’s largest producer of synthetic crude oil from oil sands and the largest single source producer in Canada. The company’s heavy equipment operator recently discovered what happens to be a nearly complete plesiosaur as they dug in Canada’s oil sands. Plesiosaur is one […]
Nov 25 2011 | Posted in
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