Debit Cards Spurs Slide in Check Writing

Richard Kesterson slid his debit card out of his wallet even before the cashier at a Hy-Vee grocery store in west Omaha rang up his total.

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Ice-age genome project faces cold storage

AFTER a tantalisingly successful run at sequencing parts of the extinct woolly mammoth's genome, the project is now stalled for lack of funds.

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The mystery of the disappearance of the vanished Nazca people, the same ones who are known for the many fanciful designs etched into the desert plateau, may have been solved. Scientists found pollen from a vanished nitrogen-fixing tree, the huarango.

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A critically endangered Indonesian crow — long feared extinct — has been rediscovered in its native habitat, scientists announced today.

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From panthers and pandas to rhinos and tigers, dwindling animal numbers speak of the need to step up conservation efforts – if it's not already too late. As a kind of wake-up call, we decided to take a look at seven extinct megafauna species captured on camera.

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ones from several Caribbean sloths and a primate skull, possibly from an extinct monkey, have been discovered in a prehistoric water-filled cave in the Dominican Republic, scientists reported today.

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Can the asymmetric distribution of craters on the Moon be explained by the known distribution of near Earth asteroids that are thought to have caused them? Their answer is a cautious "no". More Articles

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This article explores the feasibility and ethics of resurrecting extinct animals "via cloning of their DNA extracted from bone or frozen tissue."

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One of India's main tiger parks - Panna National Park - has admitted it no longer has any tigers. The park, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, was part of the country's efforts to save the famous Royal Bengal Tiger from extinction.

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PHNOM PENH: Pollution in southeast Asia's Mekong River has pushed freshwater dolphins in Cambodia and Laos to the brink of extinction, according to an international conservation group.

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blockquote>One of the most beautiful butterflies in the world has been successfully reintroduced to Britain 30 years after it became extinct, thanks to a tiny red ant.

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Africa is home to spectacular migration events. Large mammals ranging from Grant's gazelles to blue wildebeests pound their hooves across vast tracts of land as the seasons change. New research suggests, however, that migrations across the continent might be going extinct.

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Will Mankind Go Extinct?

We've heard a lot of talk lately about the death of earth and the extinction of mankind. It seems to me that Homo sapiens is one tough species. Our ability to survive hostile environments exceeds that of even rats and roaches.

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Dinosaurs were wiped out by volcanoes that erupted in India about 65 million years ago, according to new research.

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The oldest seahorse fossils discovered to date have been uncovered in Slovenia... The 13-million-year-old finds, which include the only known extinct seahorse species, are shedding light on how the naturally weak swimmers managed to disperse around the world.

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Is this the real prelude to human extinction? The 80,000+ chemicals we make and use in daily life permanently damage the development of male reproductive organs, whether human or animal.

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"These ancient lions were like a supersized version of today's lions, up to 25 per cent bigger than those we know today and, in the Americas, with longer legs adapted for endurance running.

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A photo was taken of this rare quail right before the quail was sold as poultry in a market. There are drawings and very few preserved specimens of this bird. Scientists had thought the bird to be extinct. Here is hoping he wasn't the last of his species ; )

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A rare Philippines quail that was feared to have become extinct has been photographed alive for the first time -- as it was headed for the cooking pot, according to ornithologists.

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A rare quail that was feared to have become extinct has been spotted alive for the first time in decades - on its way to a cooking pot in the Philippines, ornithologists said on Tuesday.

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Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis by its discoverers, the beast's 13m-long body and 1,140kg (2,500lb) weight make it the largest snake on record.

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This is an interesting find i think, although I do not think that it is very ahrd to believe.

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Some very sad news.

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Ever since researchers discovered in the 1970s that humans lacked the genetic variation expected of our population size, they have proposed that our ancestors went through a big squeeze: Volcanic eruptions, disease, or climate change created a population "bottleneck" that reduced …

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"I have long held the belief that the dolphin brain, comparable in size with our own, has specialized in processing auditory data in much the same way that the human brain has specialized in processing visual data.

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ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2008) — A group of five endemic and recently extinct Hawaiian songbird species were historically classified as "honeyeaters" due to striking similarities to birds of the same name in Australia and neighboring islands in the South Pacific.

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At the press conference, Keller insisted that the impact crater was formed at least 300,000 years before the great extinction and "caused no species extinctions" - certainly not to the dinosaurs.

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