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Earth’s mass extinction event: Why planet’s recovery took 10 million yearsThe intensity of the mass extinction event, coupled with the struggling ecosystems following it kept life from gaining a foothold for a millions of years.

Earth’s mass extinction event: Why planet’s recovery took 10 million years
The intensity of the mass extinction event, coupled with the struggling ecosystems following it kept life from gaining a foothold for a millions of years.

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Donna, a two-year-old elephant, sprays water in her mouth after playing a game of football with her keepers at Whipsnade Zoo near Dunstable, central England on May 28, 2012. The elephants were playing with the ball with their keepers as the zoo prepares to host a sporting extravaganza.

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It is hot outside. This elephant has the right idea.

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1967 BSA Lightning built by Union Motorcycle Classics for Caferacer TV.

Seeing this makes me want a full faired cafe racer in the garage.

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Dark Matter Makes a Comeback Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory announced in April a surprising lack of dark matter in the galaxy within the vicinity of our solar system. The ESO team, led by Christian Moni Bidin of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, mapped over 400 stars near our Sun, spanning a region approximately 13,000 light-years in radius. Their report identified a quantity... Expand this post » »

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Have you ever wondered how slugs get it on? That was the question Koen De Paus posed to G ers back in August 2011, (before there were so many G ers around ;)), when he posted this clip from the BBC series Life in the Undergrowth. This scene comes from episode 1, "Invasion of the Land," first broadcast back in November, 2005, but it is as equally engaging now as it was then. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, you can see the amazing, aerobatic, spinning mating dance of the leopard slug ( Limax maximus ) - who would have ever thought descending down a long strand of mucus could be so romantic? The slugs are hermaphrodites, and mate by exchanging sperm with each other, while hanging, entwined, by a thin strand of mucus. As both members of the mating pair receive sperm, both also lay hun »

Richard Leakey: Evolution Debate Soon Will Be History | grepScience.com » NEW YORK — Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself. Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthrop... »

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver was in Japan this week to discuss the Hayabusa mission and explore more cooperation in space between the countries. »

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Students in Texas to be monitored with microchips — RT » If it’s good enough for a dog, it’s good enough for a kid, right? A school district in Texas will be watching over its students a lot more closely, but not with the aid of extra teachers. »