Found the oldest animal ever on planet earth
Posted by admin in Science on 13. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
Our earliest evolutionary ancestor may have been found in the form of microscopic sponge-like organisms recently discovered inside extremely ancient African rocks. If that turns out to be so, it would displace animal life’s previous earliest known ancestor (unremarkably, another sponge-like “metazoan”) by predating it by perhaps 100 million years. Otavia antiqua could be the [...]
What Would the Earth Look Like if it Stopped Spinning?
Posted by admin in Concept on 08. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Equatorial Megacontinent Witold Fraczek What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? We don’t have any reason to think it will in the next few million millennia, but Witold Fraczek, an employee of geographic imaging software company ESRI, was curious. He used ArcGIS, the company’s flagship software, to build a virtual model of the planet [...]
Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Collision Course With Earth
Posted by admin in Space on 13. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Gliese 710 should arrive sometime within the next 1.5 million years Gliese 710 Hi there, neighbor! Our solar system’s ‘hood may get a bit rougher sometime during the next 1.5 million years. An astronomer has given an 86 percent chance for a neighboring star to smash into the frozen Oort Cloud surrounding the outskirts of [...]
Astronomers Find World with Thick, Inhospitable Atmosphere and an Icy Heart
Posted by admin in Space on 21. Dec, 2009 | 1 Comment
Astronomers have discovered the second super-Earth exoplanet for which they have determined the mass and radius, giving vital clues about its structure. It is also the first super-Earth where an atmosphere has been found. The exoplanet, orbiting a small star only 40 light-years away from us, opens up dramatic new perspectives in the quest for [...]
