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- Tropical Paradise Islands Are Not Sinking and Shrinking…Most Are in Fact Growing! Sun, 16 Apr 23, 7:00amThe reefs thus permanently supply sand that compensates for or even overcompensates for the rise in sea level.
- Tree of Life redesigned to reflect thousands of new species Wed, 13 Apr 16, 8:00pmRelated: Via The Atlantic Images via Nature Microbiology article "A new view of the tree of life" and Brooke Hoyer on Flickr
- Researchers find that the blind cave fish evolved a smaller brain in order to survive Sat, 10 Oct 15, 6:47amIn the dark waters of a limestone cave in northeastern Mexico, a blind fish makes its home. Washed into the cave at some time in the distant past, the fish had no choice but to survive by eating bat droppings and not much...
- Readers recommend: songs about confusion and delusion | Peter Kimpton Fri, 7 Aug 15, 5:00amMass public frenzy, hype and hysteria? Or private panic and adolescent crisis? Suggest songs all about seeing it wrongly, whether in history or just in your head
- Scientists discover microorganism that hasn’t evolved for over 2 billion years Wed, 4 Feb 15, 10:00pmScientists have discovered a type of deep-sea microorganism that seems to be the exception to the rule of evolution. An international team of researchers say the organism does not appear to have evolved over more than 2 billion...
- The Open Tree of Life Project Uses Web-Based Software to Record the Earth’s 1.8 Million Named Species Mon, 24 Mar 14, 11:00pmSince the dawn of time, humans have sought to name and catalog the plants and animals around them. The adoption of a common taxonomic system from naturalist Carolus Linnaeus and Theory of Evolution from Charles Darwin continues...
- Google’s New ‘Street View’ Maps Let You Dive in the Galapagos Islands! Sat, 14 Sep 13, 7:38amGoogle has coursed the Amazon, swam the Great Barrier Reef and scaled the Burj Khalifa - and now the tech giant has launched their latest Street View Trekker project with a collection of incredible maps of Ecuador's Galapagos...
- Google Launches Incredible Galapagos Islands Street View Maps Fri, 13 Sep 13, 11:30pmThey've coursed the Amazon, swam the Great Barrier Reef and scaled the Burj Khalifa, and now Google has launched the latest of their Street View Trekker projects with a collection of incredible imagery from Ecuador's Galapagos...
- Alarmist climate science and the principle of exclusion Wed, 8 Jun 11, 5:36pmAGW theorists are being misled by the principle of exclusion Story submitted by Paul Macrae In 1837, Charles Darwin presented a paper to the British Geological Society arguing that coral atolls were formed not on submerged...