Word: fossils
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...attraction. A growing number of outfitters supply amenities that range from adequate to near opulent for adventures like hiking and fly-fishing in the Altai Mountains, traversing the moonscape of the Gobi Desert by Range Rover and exploring the Flaming Cliffs, one of the world's premier dinosaur-fossil sites, in the company of a paleontologist...
According to the website of the Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition (NGVC), the carbon content of natural gas is lower than that of any other fossil fuel. Natural gas vehicles decrease the amount of exhaust emissions...
TIME: Even so, it's not clear that renewable energy can replace fossil fuels anytime soon, right...
...examples of these have been studied on Earth, including recent samples found 4 km beneath the surface, in a South African mine. One suggestion of Martian life emerged in 1996, when a meteorite from Mars that landed in the Antarctic region was found to contain what seemed to be fossilized microbial life. But the results are inconclusive; Pillinger and others argue that the fossils could have stemmed from contamination on Earth rather than true evidence of life on Mars. What distinguishes the Beagle's mission is that it will effectively carry out tests in situ on organic matter...
Meanwhile, Fossil wants to make sure you never leave home without your Palm Pilot. The watchmaker has shrunk a 2-MB Palm to wristwatch size. It costs $199 with a plastic wristband and $299 with a flashy metallic...