CHAPTER
11: The History of Life
- Primordial Soup
- This article from Access Excellence describes Stanley Miller's
latest experiments at the University of California, San Diego.
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- Fossil Record of the Cyanobacteria
- Learn more about the oldest fossils on earth and their living
descendants from the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
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- King of the Beastly (Legal) Battles
- Should fossils be reserved for public display in museums
or can a single person own a whole T. rex skeleton if they can
shell out the cash? According to U.S. law, the fate of fossils
collected from private land lies in the hands of the land owner.
Read more about fossil and dinosaur science, fossil-hunting history
and law, and the fate of a dinosaur named Sue at the online science
magazine The Why Files.
- Global Positioning Satellite Time Series
- With sensitive global positioning satellites, NASA has determined
how fast each part of Earth's crust is moving and in which
direction. To see where your town is headed in the next couple
thousand centuries, swing by this site.
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