The 6,000 Year Old Winery
Archaelogists in Armenia have uncovered the world’s oldest winery dated at 4,000 B.C., suggesting that technology goes back much earlier. You can read more about this exciting discovery here.
Tracking Leatherback Turtles
For the first time, scientists have tracked the route of leatherback turtles across the Atlantic ocean, revealing a journey thousands of kilometers long that takes them through dangerous ground. Read about it here.
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The Year in Weird Animals
Every year, new species are discovered- and sometimes they’re pretty strange. If you want to see the purple octopi, sneezing monkeys and ‘Yoda bats’ that caused a stir in 2010, view the National Geographic slideshow here.
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Snowflakes Up Close
Image: Electron and Confocal Microscopy Laboratory, Agricultural
Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Click here to see what happens when you put a snowflake under an (low-temperature) electron microscope- you won’t believe that these images are real.
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The Puzzle of the Self-Destructing Tree
Botanists are struggling to understand a newly discovered palm tree in Madagascar, and its unusual behavior. See pictures and read the full story here.
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Who Wins the Animal Olympics?
Image: Bernie Condon / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Last year our focus was on the strongest, fastest and toughest humans in the Olympic Games- but who takes the prizes in the animal kingdom? See the results here.
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Huge Undersea Volcano Erupts; May Form New Island
A ‘monster’ volcano took the Japanese Coast Guard by surprise and may quickly form a small island in the sea. See pictures of the eruption here.
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Ghost Peaks of Antarctica
The Gamburtsev Mountains of Antarctica are an unusual and difficult to study range- they exist miles beneath a thick ice sheet in Antarctica. New radar images, though, show that they resemble the Cascade range, with serrated peaks and valleys. See the images, plus amazing photographs of the icy landscape at National Geographic.
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The Oldest Footprints on Earth
Scientists have found 395 million year old fossilized footprints. Read about the creature that made them here.
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Good News for Endangered Birds
Ospreys and trumpter swans have had a dramatic population boom in Wisconsin, thanks to federal and community assistance. Read the full story here.
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