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POPSCalifornia's old-growth redwoods: Tree therapy amid ancient coastal giants More: The national spotlight is being cast on the park again this month with the Redwood Empire featured in National Geographic magazine. The centerpiece is a fold-out photograph of one of the park's giants, the Iluvatar Tree, the world's third-largest coast redwood at 20 1/2 feet in diameter and 320 feet tall… Of the trails that provide access to old-growth in California, the James Irvine Loop is one of the best. This loop is a 7.5-mile round trip that provides a route past a succession of giants. It's easy enough that most anybody can simply walk a half mile and back to get a feel for an ancient forest. It's long enough that the entire loop delivers a sense of discovery and awe with each grove, and the good, clean feeling that comes with hiking a few hours in a pristine landscape. This trip can change how you feel about things for a long time. Big trees can do that.
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POPSWatch 10,000 B.C Free Online From director Roland Emmerich comes a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D’Leh (Steven Strait), has found his heart’s passion — the beautiful Evolet (Camilla Belle). When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny
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POPSScotland's First People Left Behind Big Game Toolkit "Secondly, it appears to represent a technological variant which has not been recognized anywhere else in Britain," he added, explaining that the style of the tools matches hunting implements from southern Denmark and northern Germany. It's now believed people from those regions made their way to Scotland via a large land bridge called Doggerland, which connected the island of Great Britain to mainland Europe during the last ice age. The individuals in this case likely belonged to the Hamburg culture, known for its reindeer-hunting prowess. Early Scotland supported herds of reindeer, along with mammoths, rhinos, horses and other large animals. The climate "fluctuated wildly" at the end of the ice age, resulting in more moderate temperatures, but also icy cold snaps that caused the reappearance of glaciers in the highlands.
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POPSBulls Cloned From Decade-Old Frozen Testicles This type of cloning is harder to pull off, and scientists haven't yet figured out how to replace DNA damaged by Siberian deep-freezing. But researchers are also consistently amazed at the boundaries to which artificial reproduction can be pushed. "It's still very much a long shot, but it's not out and out impossible," said George Seidel, a Colorado State University animal reproduction expert, when I talked to him in November about mammoth cloning. "It's remarkable what one can do with embryos and get away with."
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POPSMammoth genome may explain extinction. Perhaps after the ice age, woolly mammoths just overheated? Global warming means most of the Mammoths that have been in the deep freeze for 10,000 years, will thaw out. The next species on the agenda, is Neanderthal Man.
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POPSReturn of the Neanderthal? continues (more at site): Cool, huh? But that's not the half of it. Wade notes: The full genome of the Neanderthal, an ancient human species probably driven to extinction by the first modern humans that entered Europe some 45,000 years ago, is expected to be recovered shortly. If the mammoth can be resurrected, the same would be technically possible for Neanderthals. In fact, Wade points out, there are good reasons to re-create a Neanderthal: "No one knows if Neanderthals could speak. A living one would answer that question and many others."
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POPSWoolly mammoth DNA nearly deciphered Full-sized mammoths, about 8 to 14 feet tall like elephants, became extinct about 10,000 years ago. go to source full story To obtain the DNA, scientists relied on 20 balls of mammoth hair found frozen in the Siberian permafrost. That technique - along with major improvements in genome sequencing and the still-emerging field of synthetic biology - is helping biologists envision a science-fiction future.
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POPSIce-Age rhinoceros remains found Proof that the education doesn't work. This five year old will be converted to a form more acceptable to society and less likely to discover that this is yet another example of the way England has caused the extinction of this woolly rhino and rugby league players with skill.
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