Topic: North America
More evidence that humans roamed North America before the Clovis culture 13,000 years ago has emerged from analysis of a bone-tip spear embedded in a mastodon bone, scientists said Thursday.The rib bone was found embedded with the tip of an ancient weapon ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska scientists have discovered the fossil of a rare, prehistoric marine reptile that is likely the most complete remnant of the creature ever found in North America.The nearly complete fossilized skeleton is of a thalattosaur, a long-tailed sea ...
Diseases that ravage wheat fields are as old as time itself. The ancient Romans even had a legend to explain the terrible plagues.According to the myth, a mischievous young boy tied a flaming wheat straw to a fox's tail, torturing the animal. ...
Move over Tyrannosaurus rex, there's a new flesh-ripping theropod on the scene that scientists say was probably as big and fearsome as the king of dinosaurs.The previously unknown predator, unveiled Friday in the journal Cretaceous Research, measured 11 metres (36 feet) from ...
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The fossil of a new type of small horned dinosaur has been discovered in South Korea, the first of its kind in an area where such finds are rare, scientists said on Tuesday.The discovery is helping researchers solve the mystery of how ...
CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Acidification of the seas linked to climate change could threaten fisheries production and is already causing the fastest shift in ocean chemistry in 65 million years, a U.N. study showed on Thursday.Production of shellfish, such as mussels, shrimp ...
The St. Lawrence River occupies a geologically old depression that involves three great geologic regions of North America: A subsequent slight uplifting of the continent was enough to expel this arm of the ocean, and about 6,000 years ago a residual riverlike ...
The black footed ferret has been a critically endangered species since 1967 and from the 1970s they were believed to be extinct until some were discovered in the early 1980s. The black footed ferret is the only ferret that is native to ...
INTRODUCTION' Leonard Plotnicov This issue's topic is the creative use of trash foods; not food taken from dumpsters or garbage cans,^ but foods that are or would be discarded because they are the remains of meals or are regarded as poor or ...
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Story from North America
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LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Music video by LCD Soundsystem performing North American Scum.2009-02-27
