 Viking navigation hypothesis under foggy and cloudy skies requires more light February 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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While history portrays the Vikings as skillful masters of the sea, sailing treacherous routes in the northern Atlantic Ocean during the 10th-13th centuries, just how much knowledge, technology and ability they ... | |
 Scientists discover first fossil of a leaf insect February 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Stick and leaf insects both belong to the insect order “Phamatodea,” or “phasmid” for short, a term which shares the same roots as the word “phantom.” Besides appropriately describing the species’ illusory ... | |
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