Animal Planet

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:38 am

......mirror images of each other.

Clones?

(um, we need a 'tongue in cheek' emoticon)

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:42 pm

What flavor ice cream clone were you looking for??

*

*OK, OK! So the tounge isn't exactly in cheek but that's the best we got!

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:35 am

Ok.......I'll use that

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:17 am

Hey, watch yer tongues!

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:37 am

Speaking of animals, the TNT cable n/w has been talking all week about feeding the dinosaurs Friday night (Jurassic Park III), but didn't say which of us are on the menu?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:40 am

Meteor Impacts: Life’s Jump Starter?

Meteor impacts are generally regarded as monstrous killers and one of the causes of mass extinctions throughout the history of life. But there is a chance the heavy bombardment of Earth by meteors during the planet's youth actually spurred early life on our planet, say Canadian geologists.

(A bit of irony there, huh?)

Model gives clearer idea of how oxygen came to dominate Earth's atmosphere

A number of hypotheses have been used to explain how free oxygen first accumulated in Earth's atmosphere some 2.4 billion years ago, but a full understanding has proven elusive. Now a new model offers plausible scenarios for how oxygen came to dominate the atmosphere, and why it took at least 300 million years after bacterial photosynthesis started producing oxygen in large quantities.

(Well, now we can all breath easier, huh?)

India’s Smoking Gun: Dino-Killing Eruptions

New discoveries about the timing and speed of gigantic, 6500-foot (2-km) thick lava flows that poured out of the ground 65 million years ago could shift the blame for killing the dinos.

(Hmm - better put those Cold Case guys on this one.)

UCLA Biochemists Provide First Structural Details of Mysterious Bacterial Microcompartments

UCLA biochemists reveal the first structural details of a family of mysterious objects called microcompartments that seem to be present in a variety of bacteria.

(Details, details.)

Henry

Website · Post by **brian** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:04 pm

Henry J wrote: Now a new model offers plausible scenarios for how oxygen came to dominate the atmosphere, and why it took at least 300 million years after bacterial photosynthesis started producing oxygen in large quantities.

Boy, models must be smarter these days. We've come a long way since Twiggy.

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:52 pm

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:04 pm

About the (Jurassic Park III's) large two legged predator with the sail fin on its back - was that based on a real fossil find or did they make it up for dramatic purposes for the movie?

Moral of the story: Don't hang glide over a dinosaur infested island.
(Even with government permission it'd still be a bad idea.)

Oh, and another bit of advice: don't steal eggs from raptors' nests. It tends to make them cranky.

Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:32 pm

Meteor impacts are generally regarded as monstrous killers and one of the causes of mass extinctions throughout the history of life. But there is a chance the heavy bombardment of Earth by meteors during the planet's youth actually spurred early life on our planet, say Canadian geologists.

Read Deception Point by Dan Brown. Verrrrry interrrresting!!!!!!

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:24 pm

lswot wrote:
Meteor impacts are generally regarded as monstrous killers and one of the causes of mass extinctions throughout the history of life. But there is a chance the heavy bombardment of Earth by meteors during the planet's youth actually spurred early life on our planet, say Canadian geologists.

Read Deception Point by Dan Brown. Verrrrry interrrresting!!!!!!

But I thoght the stork brought us??

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:15 am

Xjmt wrote:
lswot wrote:
Meteor impacts are generally regarded as monstrous killers and one of the causes of mass extinctions throughout the history of life. But there is a chance the heavy bombardment of Earth by meteors during the planet's youth actually spurred early life on our planet, say Canadian geologists.

Read Deception Point by Dan Brown. Verrrrry interrrresting!!!!!!
But I thoght the stork brought us??

Uhhhh, yeah....but the Stork came from another planet?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:34 am

Nah, that whole stork thing is just a smoke screen - Xander said so.

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:37 am

Henry J wrote:Nah, that whole stork thing is just a smoke screen - Xander said so.

Oh, yeah.......

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:45 am

Study shows humans have ability to track odors, much like bloodhounds

Though humans may never match the tracking ability of dogs, we apparently have the ability to sniff out and locate odors, according to a new study by scientists from the University of California, Berkeley.

It's smellamentary!