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Ostrich relative lived in North America 50 million years ago
2016-07-05 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â This is a nearly complete skeleton of Calciavis grandei, a close relative of ostriches, kiwis, and emus. Credit: Rick Edwards/American Museum of Natural History Exceedingly well-preserved bird fossil sp…
30 years ago scientists warned Congress on global warming. What they said sounds eerily familiar
2016-06-11 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: It was such a different time -- and yet, the message was so similar. Thirty years ago, on June 10 and 11 of 1986, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works commenced two days of hearings, convened by Sen. John H. Chafee (R-R.I.), on the subject of Ozone Depletion, the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change. This is not a matter of Chicken Little telling us the sky is falling, Chafee said at the hearing. The scientific evidence is telling us we have a problem, a serious...
CME: US Pork Production Down Only Slightly From Year Ago
2016-05-03 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - In recent weeks, the fundamental market contrasts between hog/pork and cattle/beef market trends have been important, but last week became even more striking, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.
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Seeds saved birds from mass extinction 66 million years ago
2016-04-23 03:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: The fossil record holds evidence to support both scenarios, depending on which dinosaurs are being examined. The researchers used data from over 3000 fossilized teeth from four different Maniraptora families to study variations in the teeth. Scientists investigating this question have often looked at the diversity of dinosaurs leading up to 66 million years ago. "There were bird-like dinosaurs with teeth up until the end of the Cretaceous, where they all died off very abruptly". While...
Wild ride as Dow closes over 18,000 6 minutes ago
2016-04-18 23:26:56| Toys - Topix.net
Wall Street rose on Monday, with the Dow touching highs not seen since July, as Hasbro and Disney lifted the consumer discretionary sector while investors braced for a flurry of quarterly earnings reports through the week. Chevron climbed 1.25 percent as crude prices steadied from earlier losses caused by the collapse of talks among major producers to tackle a stubborn global surplus.
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