One flight closer to space tourism Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
U.S. plans to drop gray wolves from endangered list The planned ruling would eliminate protection for the top predators, but scientists and conservationists say the proposal is flawed. Federal authorities intend to remove endangered species protections for all gray wolves in the Lower 48 states, carving out an a exception for a small pocket of about 75 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico, according to a draft document obtained by The Times. More
New calls to rename Higgs boson One of the scientists who developed the theory of the Higgs boson says the particle should be renamed to acknowledge the contributions of others involved in the work. More
A 150-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Skeleton Just Sold For Over $6 Million Dollars At An Auction In France At an auction in France, a 150-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton has just been sold for over $6 million. It is the largest dinosaur skeleton ever to go up on the auction block. The new owner has ... 11/23/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
Professor claims hostility to Barney the Dinosaur rooted in white anti-gayness “Generation Barney” alleged that while Barney’s appearance seems innocuous enough (it “made him approachable to kids”), some saw it as a “trick” — a way to confuse kids about notions of “traditional ... 11/23/2024 - 2:15 am | View Link
The Parasaurolophus' pipes: Modeling the dinosaur's crest to study its sound Scientists have presented results on the acoustic characteristics of a physical model of the Parasaurolophus' crest. They created a physical setup made of tubes to represent a mathematical model that ... 11/22/2024 - 11:54 am | View Link
Parasaurolophus pipes: Modeling the dinosaur's crest to study its sound Fossils might give a good image of what dinosaurs looked like, but they can also teach scientists what they sounded like. The Parasaurolophus is a duck-billed dinosaur with a unique crest that lived ... 11/22/2024 - 1:37 am | View Link
A 3D-printed duck-billed dinosaur’s skull could help us learn what it sounded like While the roar of the mighty Tyrannosaurs rex in the Jurassic Park film franchise is pretty terrifying, it was actually created by Hollywood special effects wizards using the sounds of a baby elephant ... 11/21/2024 - 8:32 am | View Link
Tyrannosaurus rex: Facts and photos of the dinosaur king A 2021 study that factored in the motion of the dinosaur's swinging tail found that T. rex's preferred walking speed was just under 3 mph (5 km/h), which is slower than previously calculated ... 11/23/2024 - 3:02 am | View Website
What color were the dinosaurs? The first dinosaur Vinther ever studied was a small, bird-like animal called Anchiornis. Based on the melanosomes, Vinther and his team concluded that it had a gray body, white wing feathers with ... 11/22/2024 - 8:07 pm | View Website
A brief history of dinosaurs The smallest dinosaur on record is an avian dinosaur that's alive today: the bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) from Cuba, which measures just over 2 inches (5 centimeters) long and weighs less ... 11/22/2024 - 2:23 pm | View Website
Pterodactyl: Facts about pteranodon and other pterosaurs Largest dinosaur ever auctioned sells for over $6 million — and it's twice as long as a school bus. Cretaceous 'Pompeii' of China isn't what we thought. Latest 11/22/2024 - 1:01 am | View Website
Enormous dinosaur dubbed Shiva 'The Destroyer' is one of the biggest ... It wasn't the largest dinosaur — fellow titanosaur Argentinosaurus is one contender for that disputed honor, with an estimated weight starting at 77 tons (70 metric tons) — but B. shiva was ... 11/21/2024 - 11:42 pm | View Website
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CDC confirms first child in United States infected with bird flu Yahoo! VoicesFirst Child Case Of H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed In US The Weather ChannelCDC confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in a Child in California CDCCDC confirms H5N1 in California child as Hawaii details testing results University of Minnesota Twin CitiesCalifornia health department reports possible bird flu case in child Reuters