Century-old enigma of prehistoric marine mass grave solved

October 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, a team of scientists has found out that at least some forms of microscopic marine life like algae survived the mass extinction event caused by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago that probably killed off the dinosaurs and much of the world's living organisms. The research was done using the help of a model created by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) researchers and their collaborators.

September 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - An international body of earth scientists has formally agreed to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary age by 800,000 years. The decision has been made by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the authority for geological science which has acted to end decades of controversy by formally declaring when the Quaternary Period, which covers both the ice age and moment early man first started to use tools, began.

September 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new study, scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, UK, are calling for urgent research to understand the impact of renewable energy developments on marine life. The study highlights potential environmental benefits and threats resulting from marine renewable energy, such as off-shore wind farms and wave and tidal energy conversion devices.

September 17th, 2009 DUBLIN - Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old arrowhead in the Burren, in Ireland, which is evidence of what could be the oldest habitation site in the region. According to a report in The Irish Times, Graham Hull, director of the dig, said that the team of archaeologists "were whooping and jumping up and down at the discovery of a stone arrowhead".

August 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Archaeologists at the University of Bradford are all set to lead an exploration into how prehistoric people made their living in Italy at the end of the Ice Age. According to a report in Bradford Telegraph and Argus, the research aims to find out how hunter-gatherers in Mediterranean Europe survived before farming became widespread and why the transition to agriculture was a smooth one.

August 25th, 2009 LONDON - In a new research, scientists have found that plankton, the basis of marine food webs, might grow faster in warmed up oceans. The sheer diversity of ocean food webs has made experts fear it would be impossible to predict how climate change will affect marine ecology.

August 20th, 2009 ISTANBUL - A team of archaeologists has discovered the ancient port city of Bathonea, located in Istanbul's Kucukcekmece basin in Turkey, which is estimated to be 1,600 years old. According to a report in Today's Zaman, Dr.

August 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A survey is all set to examine the population of lionfish on the USS Monitor wreck to determine if this fierce predator is harming the site's natural ecosystem. The USS Monitor is located in 240 feet of water 16 miles south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, where the ship sank on a stormy New Year's Eve in 1862.

July 25th, 2009 Obamas attend Marine Corps paradeWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are spending an evening out to watch a Marine Corps parade. Before the event, Obama spoke to a small group of military families.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - A new research has determined that due to their huge sizes, dinosaurs were the 'couch potatoes' of the prehistoric world. According to a report in the Telegraph, the research was done by Dr McNab from the University of Florida.

June 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An analysis of hand stencils inside the 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave has indicated that the handprints belong to females, which suggests that the majority of prehistoric European cave artists were female. For about as long as humans have created works of art, they've also left behind handprints.

June 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists, by spotting strange crop circle-like formations from the air, have discovered a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex in southern England, which dating back to 6,000 years, is a thousand years older than the Stonehenge. The site includes the remains of wooden temples and two massive, 6,000-year-old tombs that are among "Britain's first architecture," archaeologist Helen Wickstead, leader of the Damerham Archaeology Project, told National Geographic News.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - A prehistoric complex including two 6,000-year-old tombs representing some of the earliest monuments built in Britain has been discovered by a team led by a Kingston University archaeologist. According to a report in Alpha Galileo, Dr Helen Wickstead and her colleagues were stunned and delighted to find the previously undiscovered Neolithic tombs, also known as long barrows at a site at Damerham, Hampshire.

May 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of Leeds in the UK have uncovered a previously unknown giant volcanic eruption that led to global mass extinction 260 million years ago. The eruption in the Emeishan province of south-west China unleashed around half a million cubic kilometers of lava, covering an area 5 times the size of Wales, and wiping out marine life around the world.

April 29th, 2009 Pentagon confirms Marine is ill with swine fluWASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Wednesday a Marine based in Southern California has been confirmed to be ill with swine flu and is under quarantine, along with about 30 other Marines. A Marine spokesman at the Pentagon, Maj.