Dragons may come from the land Down Under.
Scientists now find that the world’s largest living lizard species,
the Komodo dragon, most likely evolved in Australia and dispersed
westward to its current home in Indonesia.
In the past, researchers had suggested the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)
developed from a smaller ancestor isolated on the Indonesian islands,
evolving its large size as a response to lack of competition from other
predators...
This is default featured slide 1 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
This is default featured slide 2 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
This is default featured slide 3 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
This is default featured slide 4 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
This is default featured slide 5 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Thursday, July 24, 2014
What Killed The Dinosaurs?
8:38 AM
No comments
THE GREAT MYSTERY
Surely ever since the first fossils of obviously extinct animals were found, humankind has
wondered: "Why did they die?" A poignant question, for it has relevance to us — if extinct
animals were wiped out by some catastrophe, couldn't that just as easily happen to us?
Could we be found as fossils someday, and would no one know why we died?
History: Until recently, people simply knew that dinosaurs went extinct — their
fossils were found throughout the Mesozoic era, but were not
located in the rock layers (strata)...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
The Lost City of Atlantis
1:11 AM
1 comment
The Lost City of Atlantis
If the writing of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato had
not contained so much truth about the human condition, his name would
have been forgotten centuries ago.
But one of his most famous
stories—the cataclysmic destruction of the ancient civilization of
Atlantis—is almost certainly false. So why is this story still repeated
more than 2,300 years after Plato's death?
"It's a story that
captures the imagination,"...
Sunday, July 20, 2014
History of Pyramid
3:22 AM
No comments
Built during a time when Egypt was one of the richest and most powerful
civilizations in the world, the pyramids—especially the Great Pyramids
of Giza—are some of the most magnificent man-made structures in history.
Their massive scale reflects the unique role that the pharaoh, or king,
played in ancient Egyptian society. Though pyramids were built from the
beginning of the Old Kingdom to the close of the Ptolemaic period in
the fourth century...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)