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Modern technology reveals mummy's past
Mar 15 2007 10:02PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died _ and at such a young age _ remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy.
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Modern technology reveals mummy's past
Mar 15 2007 10:02PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died _ and at such a young age _ remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy.
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Modern technology reveals mummy's past
Mar 15 2007 10:02PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died _ and at such a young age _ remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy.
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Biologists enter dens to manage bears
Mar 15 2007 4:58PM (CT)
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) - Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks.
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Biologists enter dens to manage bears
Mar 15 2007 4:58PM (CT)
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) - Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks.
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Biologists enter dens to manage bears
Mar 15 2007 4:58PM (CT)
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) - Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks.
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Biologists enter dens to manage bears
Mar 15 2007 4:58PM (CT)
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) - Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks.
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Congressman says NASA needs more funding
Mar 15 2007 4:45PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The chairman of the U.S. House science committee said Thursday that NASA is headed for "a train wreck" if the space agency isn't better funded to finish building the international space station and develop the next-generation spacecraft.
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New leopard species found in Borneo
Mar 15 2007 4:40PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The clouded leopard of Borneo _ discovered to be an entirely new species _ is the latest in a growing list of animals and plants unique to the Southeast Asian country's rainforest and underscores the need to preserve the area, conservationists said Thursday.
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Study challenges theories on species
Mar 15 2007 4:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - More species develop in warm, tropical climates or cooler, temperate areas? It turns out the longtime answer _ the tropics _ may be wrong. True, more different types of animals exist there than in places farther from the equator. New research suggests that is because tropical species do not die out as readily. Cooler regions have a higher turnover rate, with more species developing but also more becoming extinct.
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Winter warmest on record worldwide
Mar 15 2007 4:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - This winter was the warmest on record worldwide, the government said Thursday in the latest worrisome report focusing on changing climate. The report comes just over a month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said global warming is very likely caused by human actions and is so severe it will continue for centuries.
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Sighting of rare woodpecker questioned
Mar 15 2007 4:35PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A Scottish scientist says American bird experts may have been wrong when they concluded that the ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct, might have survived. In an article published Wednesday in the journal BMC Biology, University of Aberdeen geneticist Martin Collinson disputed whether a video shot by an Arkansas scientist showed the ivory-billed woodpecker.
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Could crazy technology save the planet?
Mar 15 2007 11:56AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Crazy-sounding ideas for saving the planet are getting a serious look from top scientists, a sign of their fears about global warming and the desire for an insurance policy in case things get worse.
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