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Sands Of Gobi Desert Yield New Species Of Nut-cracking Dinosaur

17:31 17-06-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com

Plants or meat: that's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate that the animal fed on nuts and/or seeds. These characteristics present the first solid evidence of nut-eating in any dinosaur.

Maya Intensively Cultivated Manioc 1,400 Years Ago

21:31 16-06-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com

Archeologists have uncovered an ancient and previously unknown Maya agricultural system -- a large manioc field intensively cultivated as a staple crop that was buried and exquisitely preserved under a blanket of ash by a volcanic eruption in present-day El Salvador 1,400 years ago.

Darwin Killed Off The Werewolf

15:31 16-06-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com

It was Darwinian theory that did away with the werewolf. The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species exactly 150 years ago focused minds on a different kind of monster – ape-men such as the Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch. From then onwards, werewolves were relegated to a fictional footnote.

Carl Linnaeus Invented The Index Card

15:31 16-06-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com

Carl Linnaeus is most famous as the father of modern taxonomy. What’s not so well known is that in his effort to manage vast amounts of data, he came up with a revolutionary invention: the index card.

Why Do We Choose Our Mates? Ask Charles Darwin, Prof Says

02:31 16-06-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com

Charles Darwin wrote about it 150 years ago: animals don't pick their mates by pure chance -- it's a process that is deliberate and involves numerous factors. After decades of examining his work, experts agree that he pretty much scored a scientific bullseye, but a very big question is, "What have we learned since then?" asks a biologist who has studied Darwin's theories.

Sediment Yields Climate Record For Past Half-million Years

00:31 16-06-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com

Researchers here have used sediment from the deep ocean bottom to reconstruct a record of ancient climate that dates back more than the last half-million years. The record, trapped within the top 20 meters (65.6 feet) of a 400-meter (1,312-foot) sediment core drilled in 2005 in the North Atlantic Ocean by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, gives new information about the four glacial cycles that occurred during that period.