Dvorsky: Should Apophis crash into Earth, it would unleash the equivalent of 1,150 megatons of TNT, in an event 3,800 times more powerful than the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima.
Just For Fun
Hey, it’s Friday night: Eleven most important cats in science
Including the world’s first cloned cat who looked nothing like the one she was identical to…
Fun: The puffer fish creates a beautiful pattern to find a mate
And he probably doesn’t even know it’s a beautiful pattern…
At Creation-Evolution Headlines: Darwin jokes
This stuff reads like a comedy routine but it is genuine Darwinism.
Coffee!: All the wildlife that use a fallen log bridge
Maybe you didn’t even know they were out there but the hidden camera catches them.
What animals do when we aren’t around
Five cougars together – a rare sight – captured on home surveillance camera
Why animals are not round, Part II
More data from this rapidly emerging and revolutionary new field, featuring ground-thudding insights. With coffee. 😉
You didn’t learn in Biology 101 why animals are NOT nearly perfect spheres?
Don’t miss this opportunity to enlighten yourself, courtesy Rollin’ France.
Dilbert’s creator, Scott Adams, gives lessons in being a troll for science
“A troll should never give reasons for what he ‘understands.’ What matters is the attitude.”
We are told that T. Rex had an amazing sense of smell
The researchers relied on comparing the shape of dinosaur brains with those of living birds. Think of a cat the size of a small building, stalking you.
Fun: Animatrons of extinct giant predators
Jurassic Park as if you were part of the cast.
Devout atheist gamer proposes to build complex structures from nothing
He has a great future in evolutionary biology today.
Fun: Scooby Doo and the Silly Skeptics
Here: In “Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island,” the gang encounters real zombies and ghosts for the first time. But Fred explains away the evidence by appealing to increasingly absurd naturalistic explanations. In the end, even Fred recognizes that his explanations simply can’t account for the facts. Atheists often call themselves “skeptics.” But when we consider the Read More…
Polar bears overrun small northern Russia town
One senses that bear-proof garbage disposal will become more of a local priority there. And there’s always the Canadian solution, the polar bear jail.
A serious discussion of frog evolution
From a truly rotund source: ATHENS, OH—Claiming the finding could shed new light on the diversity of amphibian life, scientists from Ohio University announced Thursday that they had discovered a new species of frog that had evolved the ability to spontaneously grow a top hat and cane. “Herpetologists Discover Species Of Frogs That Evolved To Read More…