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Giant Crystal Cave’s Mystery Solved
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OSCAR NECOECHEA How the crystals were able to grow so big. Its walls studded with crystal “daggers,” the Cave of Swords is closer to the surface, at a depth of nearly 400 feet (120 meters). While there are … Continue reading
Ancient reptile mystery solved as two extinct species found to be the same
Ichthyosaurs fossil Ichthyosaurs, which are similar-shaped to dolphins and sharks, but are reptiles, swam the seas for millions of years during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. They were the first, large extinct reptiles brought to the attention of the … Continue reading
Discovery of widespread platinum may help solve Clovis people mystery
No one knows for certain why the Clovis people and iconic beasts — mastodon, mammoth and saber-toothed tiger — living some 12,800 years ago suddenly disappeared. However, a discovery of widespread platinum at archaeological sites across the US has provided … Continue reading
Ancient reptile mystery solved as two extinct species found to be the same
Ichthyosaurs, which are similar-shaped to dolphins and sharks, but are reptiles, swam the seas for millions of years during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. They were the first, large extinct reptiles brought to the attention of the scientific world. … Continue reading
Ancient reptile mystery solved as two extinct species found to be the same
Ichthyosaurs, which are similar-shaped to dolphins and sharks, but are reptiles, swam the seas for millions of years during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. They were the first, large extinct reptiles brought to the attention of the scientific world. … Continue reading
‘Tully monster’ thriller is way from solved, group argues
Last yr, headlines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and different retailers declared that a many years-previous paleontological thriller had been solved. The ‘Tully monster,’ an historic animal that had lengthy defied classification, was in truth a … Continue reading
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‘Tully monster’ thriller is way from solved, group argues
Last yr, headlines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and different retailers declared that a many years-previous paleontological thriller had been solved. The ‘Tully monster,’ an historic animal that had lengthy defied classification, was actually a vertebrate, … Continue reading
Scientists strike gold, clear up thriller about valuable metals properties
GOLD MINE Chemists have lastly defined two of gold’s properties: the power concerned in eradicating or including an electron to a gold atom. New theoretical calculations match up with values measured in experiments. Predicted, precise power wanted for ionization now … Continue reading
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Answering the thriller of turquoise provenance
Turquoise has had cultural significance for Native American peoples within the southwestern United States and Mexico for greater than a millennium, and turquoise artifacts have been recovered from archaeological websites a whole lot of kilometers distant from recognized sources of … Continue reading
Pink diamond mystery solved: What makes pink diamonds pink?
Image: Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County They’re one of the world’s rarest jewels – but nobody knows for certain why pink diamonds are pink. The research suggests that a pink diamond’s colour is dependent on both wavelength and intensity … Continue reading