Dinosaur fossil discovered in China
April 15th, 2012 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 15 (IANS) Fossilized bones of a dinosaur have been discovered in China's Inner Mongolia region.The Bayan Nur city officials have invited experts to study the remains found by ... Read more...
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Concordia captain must stay under house arrest: Court
April 12th, 2012 - 3:03 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, April 12 (IANS/AKI) An Italian court has rejected a request by the captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship to release him from house arrest.Francesco Schettino captained the ... Read more...
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Ship’s sinking: Captain refused to coordinate evacuation (Lead)
January 18th, 2012 - 6:00 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Jan 18 (IANS) A recorded conversation between the captain of a wrecked Italian cruise liner and a port official has revealed that he left the ship before all the ... Read more...
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Five more bodies found on wrecked Italian ship
January 18th, 2012 - 3:26 am ICT by IANS
Moscow/Rome, Jan 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Rescuers found five more bodies Tuesday on the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship, bringing the overall toll to 11, Italy's ANSA news agency said.All the ... Read more...
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Now TV serials shot in foreign shores
January 7th, 2012 - 3:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) From the famous Sydney Opera House in Australia to beautiful exotic locales in Switzerland and Macau, small screen fiction as well as reality shows are ... Read more...
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Scientists debunk creationists’ claim that dinos and humans co-existed
March 28th, 2011 - 5:32 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 28 (ANI): An ancient cave drawing high on a rock formation in Utah has ignited a firestorm between creationists and scientists.Creationists are claiming the famous dinosaur petroglyph at the Kachina ... Read more...
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Virgin Mary ’spotted’ in Cornwall
March 3rd, 2011 - 6:15 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 3 (ANI): A woman on vacation in the UK says she took a photograph of a craggy coastline and captured the image of the Virgin Mary.The hooded figure is seen ... Read more...
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Massive deep-sea coral die-off discovered near Gulf of Mexico
November 6th, 2010 - 12:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 06 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a massive deep-sea coral die-off this week about 7 miles (11 kilometers) southwest of the source of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.Large communities ... Read more...
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Large crater opens up beneath German village
November 2nd, 2010 - 10:18 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Schmalkalden, Nov 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Residents of a German town woke up to the shock of their lives when they realized that a large crater has divided the town’s road and for ... Read more...
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Oxygen bugs evolved 2.72 billion years ago
September 10th, 2010 - 3:39 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Sep 10 (IANS) Bug that produces oxygen may have evolved hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.
Well-preserved fossils of stromatolites, a rock formation in the Pilbara region of ... Read more...
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Aruban Divers Investigate: Possible Natalie Holloway Remains
March 23rd, 2010 - 9:40 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Mar 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A photograph which was taken by Patti Muldowney while she and her husband, John were on vacation has sparked a new focus on the case of ... Read more...
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Aruba divers look for possible Holloway remains
March 23rd, 2010 - 8:51 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
March 23, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Aruba divers began searching for any signs of a sunken skeleton possibly photographed by a snorkeling Lancaster County woman, on Saturday.There is a possibility ... Read more...
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Australians mourn changing coastline
June 11th, 2009 - 5:20 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, June 11 (DPA) Australians were Thursday mourning an irrevocable change to the scenery along the iconic Great Ocean Road tourist drive after the collapse of the handsome Loch Ard Gorge rock ... Read more...
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635 mln yr old sponges were earliest animals on Earth
February 5th, 2009 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 5 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence in the form of fossilized rocks which indicates that sponges were the earliest animals on Earth, dating back to more than 635 million ... Read more...
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Bats learned to fly first, ability to navigate came later
February 14th, 2008 - 1:03 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 14 (ANI): Based on the discovery of a well-preserved fossil of the most primitive bat species known to date, scientists have determined that the animals evolved the ability to fly ... Read more...
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