Mark Willis [DeathMark | DrMong]

Found: Loch Ness Monster, but it died 200m years ago.

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

The Loch Ness monster - that lived in the English Channel. The Loch Ness monster (or at least the Plesiosaur that was found) existed during the Jurassic period about 150 to 200 million years ago when what is now the English Channel was a shallow, tropical sea. The remains were discovered by ...

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Wood found on Mars?!

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Images have "leaked" out from Nasa that has got some attention from tree-hugging hippies... Click for full high res photo. Is this timber from alien trees? The NASA explanation “What you’re seeing is a piece of flat, platy, layered sulfur-rich outcrop rock like we’ve seen almost everywhere the Opportunity rover has been in Meridiani ...

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Oh no! Not the Norwegian lemmings (Lemmus lemmus).

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Climate change is bringing wetter winters to southern Norway, a bleak prospect for the region's lemmings. The snow is not stable enough, they think, to provide winter shelter. Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers suggest the lack of Norwegian lemmings is affecting other animals such as foxes and owls. Rather than hibernating, ...

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Wilma the redhead Neanderthal.

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Meet Wilma—named for the redheaded Flintstones character—the first model of a Neanderthal based in part on ancient DNA evidence. Artists and scientists created Wilma (shown in a photo released yesterday [September 16, 2008]) using analysis of DNA from 43,000-year-old bones that had been cannibalized. Announced in October 2007, the findings had ...

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Flies are so hard to swat!

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Researchers in the US say that they have solved the mystery of why flies are so hard to swat. They think the fly's ability to dodge being hit is due to its fast acting brain and an ability to plan ahead. High speed, high resolution video recordings revealed the insects quickly work ...

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Piglet with monkey’s face.

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Curious locals flocked to the home of owner Feng Changlin after news of the piglet spread in Fengzhang village, Xiping township. "It's hideous. No one will be willing to buy it, and it scares the family to even look at it!" Feng told Oriental Today. He says the piglet looks just like ...

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Low-Carb is the way to go.

Friday, July 18th, 2008

A two year study into diets has been completed. It was done in a controlled environment: an isolated nuclear research facility in Israel (but remember, they "don't" have nuclear weapons!). The 322 participants got their main meal of the day, lunch, at a central cafeteria. Here's what CNN reported: A low-carb diet ...

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Mars - life possible.

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Finding more familiar than alien chemical elements, NASA scientists today [June 26] announced that their initial analysis found that Martian soil could support life. Scientists on Wednesday received the first test results from the wet chemistry laboratory on the Mars Lander, which is using a robotic arm to dig a shallow ...

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Neanderthals were ‘advanced’.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

According to Neanderthal tools that were dug up in England, they had advanced technology for their time. Neanderthals inhabited the plains of Europe and parts of Asia as far back as 230,000 years ago. They disappeared from the fossil record more than 20,000 years ago, a few thousand years after modern humans appeared ...

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The Large Hadron Collider | END OF THE WORLD?!

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise ...

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