Sixteen years ago, in 1992, a group of scientists, together with their children, was searching Hawaii for fossil evidences. What they stumbled upon surpassed even their boldest expectations. The cave they found proved to be the richest in fossils on all Hawaiian islands and, perhaps, of all sites in the Pacific Islan... |
27 October 2008
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In a recent research, scientists used comparisons between ratios of thorium and titanium in the layers of cave paintings, thus calculating the age of each layer. This proved that some of the paintings were completed after even 20,000 years since they were begun. Previous beliefs had it that the cave painting pro... |
6 October 2008
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Situated in Chihuahua, Mexico, the Giant Cave of Crystals is abundant in selenite (gypsum) crystals which have reached lengths of 50 feet (15 meters) and weights of 50 tons.The breath-taking Chihuahua cave is the largest crystal one ever found. These wonderful crystals are located in big “pockets”, a... |
26 September 2008
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All the anthropologic manuals talk about the Clovis people as the first Native Americans. But South American fossils show that the continent was already inhabited by Asian Blacks (the type of the Papuans and Australian Aborigines) by the time Clovis entered North America. And a new research published in the journal "... |
4 April 2008
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The first Homo sapiens employed caves against the cold or the hot weather, or to shelter against rains and wild beasts. Even chimps in Senegal were found to use caves against heat and rain. But what is more important is that caves have preserved many aspects of the life of the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) people. Incl... |
14 February 2008
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There were three great civilizations in America before its discovery by the Europeans: Aztec, Inca and Maya; but Maya of southern Mexico and Guatemala was by far the most advanced, culturally and artistically. The Maya built complex temples and palaces before the arrival of the Spaniards.The most important Maya citie... |
23 January 2008
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What is more amazing about a cave landscape than the presence of stalactites and stalagmites? A stalactite ("drip" or "that which drips" in Old Greek), also called dripstone, is a type of speleothem (secondary mineral) hanging from the ceiling or wall of limestone caves. The wonderful sharpened cones are the result o... |
17 December 2007
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Finally, the British can calm down: 13,000 years ago they were artists, just like those Spaniards and French, as a possible late Upper Palaeolithic ("Old Stone Age") engraving has been found at Cheddar Caves and Gorge by a team of the University of Bristol Speleological Society (UBSS). The same team discovered in 200... |
16 August 2007
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There are many strange formations on Mars whose images sparked the imaginations of many people around the world and many have come with theories until the official scientific explanations. Among them is an image of a spooky anomaly, first observed in 1976 by Viking, called the Mars Face, or pictures of "dust-devils"... |
28 May 2007
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Caves represent a world transfixed by millennia, harboring extremely beautiful art works made in limestone by nature's best dab: water.But not only nature creates valuable art in caves. Primitive men employed caves against the cold or the hot weather, or to shelter from rains and wild beasts. On their home caves... |
30 April 2007
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A new astonishing finding explains us the origin of the behavior of our ancestors of employing caves as shelter. Recently, a team from Iowa State University led by anthropologist Jill Pruetz had signaled in savanna chimpanzees from Senegal the habit of employing sharpened sticks to hunt small animals (particularly bu... |
11 April 2007
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This is one of the most beautiful natural wonders. Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) harbors one of the largest natural crystals ever discovered: translucent gypsum beams up to 36 feet (11 meters) long and weighing up to 55 tons. Located a thousand feet (300 meters) below Naica mountain in the C... |
10 April 2007
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After water, Mars comes with other surprises, too. Images from Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft, launched in April 2001 to hunt for past or present water on Mars, have revealed to astronomers what could be seven caves on the Red Planet's surface. The potential caves are located on the flanks of the Arsia Mons volc... |
17 March 2007
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