Great Barrier Reef Low Isles cruise: Turtles all the way
Turtles are the jewel in the Low Isles crown and they are what everyone has come to see. Great Barrier Reef Low Isles cruise: Turtles all the way Swimming with a turtle in the Coral Sea. Photo: Tourism Australia Glassbottom boat.Snorkelling at the Low Isles.P&O's Pacific Jewel.Snorkelling with turtles at the Low Isles.exit"I guarantee you will see a turtle."Music to the ears of any snorkeler, this promise from the Wavedancer crewmember delivering the orienta..>> view originalHuge coral reef found growing at the mouth of the Amazon River leaves scientists in awe
The mouth of the Amazon River as shown by satellite. Picture: Google EarthIT’S a diverse ecosystem, teeming with an array of unique wildlife — from electric eels to giant otters, and piranhas — yet the Amazon River hasn’t finished revealing its treasures. A team of scientists from Brazil and the United States have discovered an extensive 965km coral reef system in the muddy waters at the river’s mouth.The reef stretches along the edge of the South American continental shelf from French Guiana to..>> view originalChina, US pledge to ratify Paris climate deal this year
China and the United States, the world's top producers of greenhouse gas emissions, pledged on Friday to formally adopt by the end of the year a Paris deal to slow global warming, raising the prospects of it being enforced much faster than anticipated. The United Nations said 175 states took the first step of signing the deal on Friday, the biggest day one endorsement of a global agreement. Of those, 15 states also formally notified the United Nations that they had ratified the deal. Many count..>> view originalYiddish Language, Ashkenazi Jews May Have Come From Northeastern Turkey
To locate the origin of the Yiddish language, researchers digged into the biological records of Ashkenazi Jews, and evidence revealed that Yiddish predominantly came from northeastern Turkey. Various researchers from the United States, United Kingdom and Israel used the Geographic Population Structure to identify the DNA of Ashkenazi Jews and trace their origin based on geographical information generated by the tool. Spearheaded by geneticist Dr. Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield, t..>> view originalCSIRO eyes alternative plan to climate job cuts as Chairman Thodey faces inquiry
CSIRO's RV Investigator: Light on the horizon for CSIRO's climate research program? Photo: Pete Harmsen CSIRO is expected to offer an alternative to deep cuts of its climate science program as soon as this week in a bid to defuse criticism as a Senate committee prepares to widen its inquiry to include chairman David Thodey.Mr Thodey is scheduled to address the committee in Canberra on Wednesday. Unusually, the chairman has asked the session be held in camera ..>> view originalStephen Hawking: Black Holes Could Be Portals To Other Universes [Video]
In the last century, black holes have gone from hypothetical to almost undisputed curiosities of the universe, and Professor Stephen Hawking has long been at the forefront of black hole research. Hawking has said on the record that, as recently as the 1970s, he found the puzzling anomalies of spacetime to be “vexing,” mostly due to the contradictions between established (at the time) theories and his own calculations and observations. As Smithsonian Magazine reports, the common wisdom at the ti..>> view originalStunning discovery: Monkeys in North America?
Scientists have unearthed monkey teeth that could significantly change the animals’ migration history. Scientists have long thought that monkeys first ventured from South America into North America no earlier than about 4 million years ago, when the two continents merged. But seven teeth unearthed in Panama may change that story. These monkey teeth were discovered encased in 21-million-year-old rocks. This suggests that the primates accomplished the impossible, crossing the more than 100 mil..>> view originalParticles forged in the heart of a nearby supernova are still raining onto Earth today
After analyzing years of data, researchers have found that majority of cosmic rays raining on earth today were sent by a nearby supernova about 2.3 million years ago. A study on the findings published in the journal Science suggested that a past research on a galactic neighborhood supernova was right. Rays forged by the nearby supernova are still raining onto our planet today, as per the study. To get the results, a researcher from the Washington University and an author of the study, Robert..>> view originalFossil tooth of gigantic killer sperm whale found in Australia
SYDNEY – A huge, 5-million-year-old whale tooth has been discovered on an Australian beach, providing the first evidence of the extinct killer sperm whale outside the Americas. The 30-centimeter-long (12-inch) fossilized tooth, which is larger than that of a Tyrannosaurus rex, was found by a fossil enthusiast at Beaumaris Bay near Melbourne in February. “After I found the tooth, I just sat down and stared at it in disbelief,” Murray Orr said after the find was announced on Thursday by Museum V..>> view originalSeed clue to how birds survived mass extinction
BBCToronto Modern birds owe their survival to ancestors who were able to peck on seeds after the meteor that wiped out most dinosaurs, say scientists. Bird-like dinosaurs with toothless beaks survived the ‘nuclear winter’ that followed the meteor strike, because of their diet, a study says.The impact altered the climate of the Earth and blotted out sunlight. The loss of vegetation would have deprived plant-eating dinosaurs of food. In turn, meat-eaters suffered. But seeds still in the ground ma..>> view original
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