Newsvine - natural-history

Man held in Paris over sawed off elephant tusk

Associated Press — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:16:52 +0000

Authorities say a man has been arrested overnight for allegedly breaking into Paris' Museum of Natural History and cutting off a tusk from a centuries-old elephant skeleton with a chainsaw.

Harvard's 1st NCAA win brings 'unexpected pride'

Jimmy Golen — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:32:37 +0000

Michael Lesley crisscrossed Harvard Yard, looking up from his copy of David Hume's "The Natural History of Religion" only to avoid the tourists that shuffled through the snow-covered quadrangle.

Forget Extinct: The Brontosaurus Never Even Existed : NPR

Sabastian Palpatine — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:39:33 +0000

It may have something to do with all those Brontosaurus burgers everyone's favorite modern stone-age family ate, but when you think of a giant dinosaur with a tiny head and long, swooping tail, the Brontosaurus is probably what you're seeing in your mind. Well hold on: Scientifi …

Fashion designer Pinto teams with Chicago museum

Caryn Rousseau — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:47:53 +0000

Designer Maria Pinto, well-known for dressing first lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, used her eye for fashion to curate antiquities from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago for a new exhibit that includes a century-old shredded bark Brazilian ceremonial costume and a woven monkey fur necklace.

Smithsonian picks paleontologist to lead DC museum

Brett Zongker — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:01:22 +0000

A paleontologist who undertook a major excavation of ice age fossils of mammoths and mastodons in Colorado was named the next director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History on Thursday.

Smithsonian to create its 1st human genome exhibit

Brett Zongker — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:54:52 +0000

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is developing its first major exhibit on the human genome with a $3 million pledge announced Monday from a biotechnology company.

Koch gives Smithsonian $35M for new dinosaur hall

Brett Zongker — Thu, 3 May 2012 15:06:39 +0000

An energy businessman is donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinosaur hall on the National Mall, the museum complex announced Thursday.

Immanuel Kant ~ Born April 22, 1724

J. Lemert Whitmer — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:50:03 +0000

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ” ~ Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

African Fossil Foot Indicates Another Hominin Species Lived With Lucy

euterpe-1641499 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:37:51 +0000

Now it seems that Lucy shared eastern Africa with another prehuman species, one that may have spent more time in trees than on the ground. A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot found in Ethiopia appears to settle the long-disputed question of whether there was only a si …

Smithsonian to display award-winning nature photos

Associated Press — Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:59:39 +0000

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will soon exhibit some of the world's best nature photography on the National Mall.

A forest grows in Antarctica - an extensive forest may have flourished about 3 million years ago

Crackhead Awards — Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:30:22 +0000

, scientists came to believe that the stark and frigid landscape we see today has existed for a very long time; the climatic message embedded in sea sediments is that once an ice sheet enveloped East Antarctica 15 million years a …

Sondheim, dinosaurs combine for NY charity gala

Mark Kennedy — Tue, 4 Oct 2011 01:36:57 +0000

A treasure hunt devised by composer Stephen Sondheim prompted hundreds of people, including Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, to scamper through the dinosaur section of the American Museum of Natural History on Monday night.

DC museum opens exhibit on rescued Chilean miners

Associated Press — Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:41:03 +0000

The Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibit about the rescue of 33 Chilean miners who spent more than two months trapped underground in 2010.

Smithsonian keeps meteorite that fell in Va.

Associated Press — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:06:48 +0000

A small meteorite that crashed through the roof of a Virginia medical office last year is becoming part of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History in Washington.

Shark tracking reveals impressive feats of navigation

distracted — Thu, 3 Mar 2011 15:40:24 +0000

Sharks don't just swim ranomly. A facinating read for anyone who likes sharks and other fish.

Ancient Britons drank out of skulls used as cups | Mail Online

Liselotte — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:14:16 +0000

They were already branded cannibals. Now it appears that early Britons also enjoyed drinking out of cups made from their victims' heads.

Natural History Museum in DC reopens after fire

Associated Press — Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:53:15 +0000

Officials say a fire broke out at a building near the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, emitting a plume of black smoke and closing area streets.

The sea, the Census and statistics

Paul van der Laan — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:23:21 +0000

Plenty more fish in the sea? But how can one tell? And what strange creatures remain to be discovered? The largest ever survey of marine life has just been concluded. Andrew R.

Early meat-eating dinosaur unearthed

WoofWoof79 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:37:04 +0000

Pint-sized, two-legged runner dates back to the dawn of the dinos

10 great travel freebies around the world

replytoj001 — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:18:57 +0000

Discovering a discount or two on vacation is a surefire way to put a smile on your face. But tracking down a must-see destination that doesn't cost a dime, well, it doesn't get much more satisfying than that.

The Castle of Lavaux-Ste-Anne

sustenergy — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:28:54 +0000

One of the great castles in the Belgian province of Namur.

The Redox Revolution

Wheel — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:57:45 +0000

Redox proxies, such as the ratio of chromium isotopes in banded iron formations or the ratio of isotopes in sulfide particles trapped in diamonds, tell geologists indirectly whether the Earth' s atmosphere and oceans were reducing (inclined to give away electrons to other atoms …

Visting Riverbluff Cave in Springfield, Mo

rottlady — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:08:37 +0000

My Sister and I visited the Missouri Institute of Natural Science last week where they have artifacts found in the Riverbluff Cave nearby. The cave is about 830,000 years old (making it the oldest known fossil cave site in the US.

From Museum Basement, a 'New' Dinosaur

Matti Viikate — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:59:18 +0000

When Nicholas Longrich stumbled upon a fossilized fragment from a previously unknown dinosaur genus in the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, he rejected the traditions that usually govern dinosaur nomenclature.

Would dew believe it: Stunning pictures of sleeping insects covered in water droplets

Raat ki Raani — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:15:35 +0000

Glistening in the early morning, these insects look like creatures from another planet as dew gathers on their sleeping bodies. Captured in extreme close-up, one moth appears to be totally encrusted in diamonds as it rests on a twig.