Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen – the fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now Colombia.
Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art.
Sunspot AR-1476 is currently on its 5th day of a two week transit across the face of the sun. The "Monster Sunspot" has a 65% chance of more M-Class solar flares and a 10% chance of X-Class flares within the next 24 hours according to NOAA forecasters.
PASADENA, Calif. – NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's moon.