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Did You Know There Are 23 Countries in North America?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 4 days agoNorth America is the world's third largest continent by land area, bordered by the Arctic Ocean to...
Meet A Prehistoric ‘Mega-Raptor’—Found, Fossilized, In This Cave In South Australia
Forbes· 3 days agoBiologists and paleontologists have long wondered why Australia has fewer large birds of prey than other continents. For instance, in Australia today, the ...
John Wilmerding (1938-2024)
The Wall Street Journal· 14 hours agoCarleton Watkins (1829-1916) was for a time partially overshadowed by his more familiar contemporaries Eadweard...based in California for most of his...
Fossil-hunting diver found a large section of mastodon tusk off Florida's coast
CBS News· 19 hours agoAt first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off...
A Tectonic Enigma Is Hiding Beneath the Ocean Floor
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn contrast, Earth’s crust is thinnest beneath the oceans, which explains why...toward the land masses like a conveyor belt. When plate mass reaches the...
Are European stocks doomed to underperform?
Market Watch· 4 days agoEurope’s lower productivity is structural and a result of various factors including a greater prevalence of small companies, worse demographics, a lack...
Baobab trees all come from Madagascar – new study reveals that their seeds and seedlings floated to...
The Conversation· 1 day agoSix are found in Madagascar, an island in the Indian Ocean; one is found on the continent of Africa; and the last is far away in Australia. Baobabs are a remarkable keystone ...
Column: What is the state of opera in L.A.? OperaFest LA tells only half the story
Los Angeles Times· 12 hours agoOnly in 1986 did it finally found a resident company, Music Center Opera, now Los Angeles Opera. The...
Why Euro 2024 Will Really Be A World Cup
Forbes· 2 days agoThe upcoming soccer extravaganza in Germany, contested by 24 national teams and dozens more stars from Tbilisi to Tenerife, is, by name, the European...
10 things you may not know about 'super sneaky' cicadas
Futurity· 7 days ago“Cicada life cycles can range from three years for our local species to up to 17 years for those in...
