Monthly Archives: December 2011

Dinosaur migration

Posted on December 27, 2011 by tfester

Plant-eating dinosaurs migrated over large distances, as demonstrated by oxygen isotope analyses of dinosaur teeth (Nature 480, 513 ff)… Continue reading →

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Planetary sun bath

Posted on December 27, 2011 by tfester

Astronomers detected two small planets (in the range of Earth circling a white dwarf (Kepler-20) in close proximity (Nature 480, 460 f and 496 ff)… Continue reading →

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Modern humans in Europe

Posted on December 3, 2011 by tfester

This week’s animation features three recent articles from Nature (volume 479, pages 483 – 485, pages 521 – 524, pages 525-529), which shifted the documented arrival time of modern humans in Europe by a few thousand years to an earlier … Continue reading →

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