Chickens with teeth
Radioisotope dating of rocks in the Grand Canyon
The discordant ‘dates’ for Grand Canyon rocks point to an episode of accelerated radioactive decay some time in the past.
Erring on the side of censorship (Brittany McComb’s address cut short)
Valedictorian speech censored by school.
‘Schweitzer’s dangerous discovery’
Dr Mary Schweitzer discovered still-soft-and-stretchy tissue in a dinosaur fossil, igniting a controversy.
Why nail biters don’t cry
The humble fingernail turns out to have intricate design. The middle layer has fibres aligned to prevent tearing down to the nail beds, and the two outer layers make nails as strong as hooves.
Bombardier idea
The bombardier beetle’s explosive secrets are inspiring engineers to design better aircraft engines.
Bird evolution flies out the window
You were likely taught that the famous Archaeopteryx was a bird-reptile ‘link’. But what are the facts?
Major US denomination ‘affirms evolution’—and more
The Episcopalian Church (Anglicanism in America) comes out strongly and officially in support of a position that rejects Genesis the way Christ taught and understood it.
Fossil evidence for alleged apemen—Part 1: the genus Homo
Morphological analysis points to genetic variation within the one human kind, so the case for human evolution collapses.
Shrimpy superboxer
Meet the tiny mantis shrimp that can punch holes in glass using an ingenious catapult
mechanism. Its eyes, with 12 types of colour receptor, may help designers of cameras
for satellites.
The Hobbit: Precious fossil or poisoned chalice?
The puzzling Homo floresiensis.
Herero genocide
German settlers, feeding on ideas of evolutionary superiority, perpetrated genocide on the noble Herero people of Namibia.