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Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found
Columbus OH (SPX) Oct 07, 2008 -
The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters in diameter -- date back some 570 million years, to the Ediacaran period.
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Experts Find Evidence of Bosnia PyramidVisoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Researchers on Wednesday unearthed geometrically cut stone slabs that they said could form part of the sloping surface of what they believe is an ancient pyramid lying beneath a huge hill. |
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Homeless man returns wallet with $900Santa Ana, CA - A homeless man searching through garbage bins for recyclable cans found a missing wallet and had it returned to its owner. |
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Watching the brain ‘switch off’ self-awarenessRehovot, Israel - Everybody has experienced a sense of "losing oneself" in an activity - being totally absorbed in a task, a movie or sex. Now researchers have caught the brain in the act. |
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Tiny Reactor Boosts Biodiesel ProductionPortland, OR - A tiny chemical reactor that can convert vegetable oil directly into biodiesel could help farmers turn some of their crops into homegrown fuel to operate agricultural equipment instead of relying on costly imported oil. |
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New Research Finds Mercury Fillings Are SafeBoston, MA - wo new studies that found amalgam fillings to be safe are sure to revive the debate over whether or not "silver" fillings can harm other parts of the body. |
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