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...medium and scientific research tool have rarely intersected. But that's just what they'll do starting later this week. On Saturday the American Museum will unveil, under Grimaldi's curatorial supervision, the most comprehensive display of amber ever mounted. The exhibition, "Amber: Window to the Past," features 146 fossil specimens and 94 decorative objects from museums and private collections all over the world, including Stone Age amulets from Scandinavia, 18th and 19th century Chinese figurines and treasures once owned by the Medicis of Italy and the Czars of Russia. Many of these artworks have never been publicly shown; none...
They also addressed the students' environmental concerns by saying that although Shell does not believe fossil fuels are going to run out in the near future, it constantly researches alternatives...
...though it does not prove, that biology will take hold if it possibly can, even under hostile conditions. In fact, biologists have not quite given up on our own solar system yet. They think Mars may have had a brief fling with one-cell life that could have left fossil evidence behind. Some even hold out the hope that microorganisms are still surviving somewhere under the Martian surface. Attention is also turning to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons; its icy white surface could conceal oceans of liquid water, and perhaps some sorts of living organism. Both possibilities are likely...
...SHOW THE PHOTO OF A FOSSIL OF A sluglike creature and say it is the oldest known member of the line that led to humans. I think it is "lowlife" to pass that off on others. Look at the precision of the creation around us and be honest. There had to be a divine plan, a perfect order. The reason we don't want to acknowledge this is because then we would have to answer to a Creator who will hold us responsible for our actions. If you want to think of yourself as a descendant of a slug, fine...
...communicate her sense of excitement, Nash uses bold metaphorical leaps and descriptive passages that can bring to life a half-billion-year-old fossil ("plump Aysheaia," she writes, "prancing on caterpillar-like legs"). These gifts, says senior editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, make Nash "a national treasure--one of the few who can see the cutting edge of science, report it deeply, and then write about it with grace and style...