http://www.caltechnews.com Tue, 22 May 2012 21:16:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/has_noah_s_ark A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say wooden remains they have discovered on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey are the remains of Noah's Ark CalTechNews Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:54:59 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/what_triggers_a_mass_extinction_ The second-largest mass extinction in Earth's history coincided with a short but intense ice age during which enormous glaciers grew and sea levels dropped CalTechNews Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:28:53 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/oldest_fossilized_forest_revealed An international tea, including a Cardiff University researcher who previously found evidence of Earth's earliest tree, has gone one step further CalTechNews Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:31:22 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/plant-eating_dinosaur_in_antarctica_discovered For the first time, the presence of large bodied herbivorous dinosaurs in Antarctica has been recorded CalTechNews Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:07:06 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/north_america_s_biggest_dinosaur New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies and the State Museum of Pennsylvania has unveiled enormous bones from North America's biggest dinosaur CalTechNews Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:35:17 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/world_s_first_super_predator_amazing_vision South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at the top of Earth's first food chain CalTechNews Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:18:01 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/volcanoes,_meteorite_impacts_doomed_dinosaurs A cosmic one-two punch of colossal volcanic eruptions and meteorite strikes likely caused the mass-extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period that is famous for killing the dinosaurs 65 million years ago CalTechNews Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:24:00 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/multi-legged_predator_ruled_the_seas Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have followed fossilized footprints to a multi-legged predator that ruled the seas of the Cambrian period about half a billion years ago CalTechNews Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:46:00 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/scientists_race_against_time_to_save_the_last_flying_pencil_,_wwii_bomber Scientists are in a race against time to help save the last remaining intact World War II German light bomber Dornier Do-17, known as The Flying Pencil (Fliegender Bleistift), which lies underwater in the English Channel off the Kentish coast in the UK CalTechNews Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:08:34 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/jawbone_found_in_england_is_from_the_earliest_known_modern_human_in_northwestern_europe The bone first was believed to be about 35,000 years old, but the new research study shows it to be significantly older -- between 41,000 and 44,000 years old CalTechNews Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:02:30 +0100