Scientists working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California announced last week that an X-ray analysis has revealed a chemical connection between birds and dinosaurs.
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Foreign bug will be introduced to control UK Knotweed
20 May, 2010
Have scientists found a way to limit the growth of Japanese knotweed?
Have biofuels accelerated a food crisis?
20 May, 2010
Marketed as a solution to environmental degradation and our dependence on peak oil, biofuels once appeared a promising ‘green’, renewable energy source.
Neanderthal gene extends to Asia and Middle East
20 May, 2010
A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome has provided a new insight into evolution – including evidence of interbreeding with ‘modern day’ humans.
Poachers kill world’s ‘rarest large mammal’
20 May, 2010
Conservationists are now debating whether or not the Vietnamese population of Javan rhino has any chance of survival