I just found this on BBC :( 

The researchers failed to spot any Yangtze river dolphins, also known as baijis, during an extensive six-week survey of the mammals’ habitat.

The team, writing in Biology Letters journal, blamed unregulated fishing as the main reason behind their demise.

If confirmed, it would be the first extinction of a large vertebrate for over 50 years.

The World Conservation Union’s Red List of Threaten Species currently classifies the creature as “critically endangered”.

The title speaks for itself…

Found here.

Here is the article for those who are too lazy to click links - like myself.

Scientists see the softer side of Tyrannosaurus rex.

When paleontologists find fossilized dinosaur bones during a dig, they usually do everything in their power to protect them, using tools like toothbrushes to carefully unearth the bones without inflicting any damage. However, when scientists found a massive Tyrannosaurus rex thigh bone in a remote region of Montana a few months ago, they were forced to break the bone in two in order to fit it into the transport helicopter. This act of necessity revealed a startling surprise: soft tissue that had seemingly resisted fossilization still existed inside the bone. This tissue, including blood vessels, bone cells, and perhaps even blood cells, was so well preserved that it was still stretchy and flexible.

A scanning electron microscope revealed that the dinosaur blood vessels, which are 70 million years old, are virtually identical to those recovered from modern ostrich bones. The ostrich is today’s largest bird, and many paleontologists believe that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs. Scientists may be able to confirm this evolutionary relationship if they can isolate certain proteins from the recently discovered T. rex tissue. These proteins could also help solve another puzzle: whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded like other reptiles or warm-blooded like mammals.

Does this discovery of soft dinosaur tissue mean that scientists will soon be able to clone a Tyrannosaurus rex? Probably not – most scientists believe that DNA cannot survive for 70 million years. Then again, before this discovery, most scientists believed that soft tissue could not survive for 70 million years either.

A meteorite that hit Norway has an impact comparable to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

This is very exciting, I’ve always been interested how powerful a decent-sized meteorite could be. Though it would suck if it was several miles wide.
At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky.

A few minutes later an impact could be heard and geophysics and seismology research foundation NORSAR registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m. at their station in Karasjok.

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Got bored and found this at the Discovery Website — The Animal Planet
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According to the New Scientist, researchers have successfully created an artificial penis that allows rabbits with damaged penis to successfully mate.

Imagine the application of this to human beings.

Scientists have mapped the final chromosome of the human genome. Called chromosome 1, it has the most number of genes of all the chromosomes, 3,141 to be exact. The human genome has around 20,000 - 25,000 genes and has 23 chromosomes, one of them being the “sex” chromosome.

The sequence of chromosome 1, which is published online by the journal Nature, took a team of 150 British and American scientists 10 years to complete.

“We are moving into the next phase which will be working out what the genes do and how they interact,”

This is both exciting and scary at the same time. In one hand, we could have the cure for virtually every disease; on the other hand, we could be looking at genetically enhanced super humans like the ones we see in movies. Maybe I watch too much television, but it could happen.
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Human Genome Project

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Wow. I never thought mirages could get that big. And for 4 whole hours. :-O

Thousands of tourists and local residents witnessed a mirage of high clarity lasting for four hours off the shore of Penglai City in east China’s Shandong Province on Sunday.

Mists rising on the shore created an image of a city, with modern high-rise buildings, broad city streets and bustling cars as well as crowds of people all clearly visible.

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Hehe look at that little bastard go!
Monkeys drink more alcohol when housed alone, and some like to end a long day in the lab with a boozy cocktail, according

“Like humans, monkeys are more likely to drink after stressful periods, such as soon after the daily 8-5 testing hours and after a long week of testing,”.

Full article here.

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This is old news but it is still very interesting. It’s about a guy who invented a car that runs on tap water. But he was poisoned and his invention never got developed any further.

Stan Meyer’s Dune Buggy that ran on water. Hydrogen burning motor. On board electrolysis, no hydrogen tanks, no bombs on-board, just water. (1998) It ran 100 miles per gallon! The 2nd best inventor of the Century, besides Tesla, who was and will always be #1. Stan is the mustard seed of Water Powered Cars!

Full article here. There’s some videos there too.

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