Word: fossilize
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...death, however, this creature has just sent shock waves through the world of science. After eight grueling years of hunting in the hot, wind-scoured desert of central Africa, an international team of researchers has uncovered one of the most sensational fossil finds in living memory: the well-preserved skull of a chimp-size animal, probably a male, that doesn't fit any known species. According to paleontologist Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers in France, whose team reported the find in Nature last week, there is no way it could have been an ape of any kind...
...cranium was somewhat squashed, and blowing sand had eroded some of its detail, but it was nearly complete. And in a game where an entire jawbone is regarded as a rare treasure, the fossil was almost a miracle. Over the next seven months, the team found pieces of what it believes are at least five individuals of the same species, including two lower-jaw fragments and three isolated teeth. Without a telltale foot, leg or other skeletal feature, the team could not be positive that the animal walked upright, but its skull is similar in important ways to those...
...could feed 800 million people--and, if exported, would boost the U.S. trade balance by $80 billion a year." Grain-fed livestock consume 100,000 liters of water for every kilogram of food they produce, compared with 2,000 liters for soybeans. Animal protein also demands tremendous expenditures of fossil-fuel energy--eight times as much as for a comparable amount of plant protein. Put another way, says Pimentel, the average omnivore diet burns the equivalent of a gallon of gas per day--twice what it takes to produce a vegan diet. And the U.S. livestock population--cattle, chickens, turkeys...
...party with Kemal Dervis, the Economy Minister. Dervis, however, did not confirm this. He submitted his resignation from the government, but President Ahmet Necdet Sezer persuaded him to withdraw his letter. CHAD Oldest Humanoid A French-led research team announced the discovery of the oldest human-like fossil. The skull is from a creature (nicknamed Touma?) that lived 6 to 7 million years ago - 3 million years older than any other known humanoid fossil. The Mission Pal?oanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne found only a cranium and lower jaw, so it's not known whether Touma? walked upright - or how the discovery fits...
...wheat fields prompts a refiection on agribusiness and the controversy surrounding biotechnology. Colorful bottle racks snapped in Germany bring comment about bottled water, plastic containers and the scourge of alcoholism. A shot of the world's largest offshore wind farm, in Denmark, raises the issue of fossil-fuel alternatives. A market in Kenya, where Western-donated goods are sold, illustrates the economic chasm between rich and poor nations. Arthus-Bertrand plans to work on the project for the rest of his life. "It's impossible to finish it," he says. "What you see here is the beginning. Other photographers will...