Human Footprints Off Canadian Coast Pre-date End Of Last Ice Age

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Human footprints such as this one, known as Track #17 and digitally enhanced on the right, suggest people were walking along North America’s Pacific Coast 13,000 years ago. (Credit Duncan McLaren) Nearly 30 human footprints from at least three different individuals, found at a remote island off Canada’s Pacific Coast, could be the latest evidence that people arrived in North America by sea. At about 13,000 years old, the tracks pre-date the end of the last ice age. Ancient ...read more

Triassic Park: A Decade-Long Labor To Recreate A Lost World

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Welcome to Triassic Park! Researchers spent a decade working at remote African sites to fill in serious gaps in our understanding of life at the Dawn of the Dinosaur Age. The scene, including dino-relative Teleocrater in foreground, illustrates what mid-Triassic Tanzania might have looked like 240 million years ago. (Credit Mark Witton/Natural History Museum, London) You’ve probably heard about The Great Dying, more formally known as the End-Permian mass extinction, when more than 95 perc ...read more

WWII Warship Lost with Five Sullivan Brothers Has Been Found

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A gun turret containing a Mark 12 5-inch gun from the USS Juneau that was discovered as part of the sunken warship’s wreckage on March 17, 2018. Credit: Navigea Ltd. One of the most well-known stories of family sacrifice in wartime is the loss of the five Sullivan brothers aboard the light cruiser USS Juneau during World War II. That story resurfaced after an expedition headed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen discovered wreckage from the USS Juneau lying on the ocean floor in the South ...read more

How to Discover New Cloud Species

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Asperitas cloud over Newtonia, Missouri, US. (Credit: © Elaine Patrick, Cloud Appreciation Society Member 31940) Clouds form in a multitude of different shapes and sizes, their infinite combinations and position across the sky offering a visual drama in response to the light conditions. But despite their apparent randomness, a detailed naming convention is in place to categorize them. When a cloud ultimately can’t be fitted into one of the many existing categories, it can be nominate ...read more