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...conclude the universe began with a bang, but they expect there will be no happy ending. I can't see Hollywood rushing in for the film rights. Still, I would be interested in finding out what happened before the beginning and what happens after the end. CONRAD MILL Antananarivo, Madagascar...
Your article "Who Killed Woolly?" inspired me to read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. He believes that the overkill hypothesis best accounts for the mass extermination of megafauna in Australia, New Guinea, Madagascar and North America, where species were suddenly confronted by able human hunters. Diamond points out that it would have been unlikely for these giant creatures to survive countless climatic catastrophes over tens of millions of years and then succumb to environmental changes in a wide variety of habitats just after the first humans arrived. I only hope that modern research can help us learn from...
Reunion island, a cone of volcanic rock that rises out of the Indian Ocean some 750 km east of Madagascar, is over 9,500 km away from Paris but - in theory, at least - is just as French as the Champs Elysées or the Côte d'Azur. Since 1946 the island has been a French département, like the country's 99 other local administrative units. Yet you don't have to spend long in the shadow of Réunion's active volcano to realize that the island is a long way from Lyons. Despite...
...phrase scientific fieldwork didn't conjure up enough images of toe rings, bandannas and Birkenstocks, a team of researchers from the University of Utah cemented the scientist/stoner equation forever this week by naming a dinosaur after ex-Dire Straits frontman MARK KNOPFLER. Masiakasaurus knopfleri was discovered in Madagascar and christened after the aging rock star because the researchers listened to a lot of Brothers in Arms while working under the hot island sun. Masiakasaurus lived during the late Cretaceous period and was probably 5 ft. to 6 ft. long, weighed in at 80 lbs. and sported protruding snaggleteeth used...
...photographs, the acclaimed Dutch naturalist turns the flora and fauna of Borneo, Madagascar and the Amazon basin into objets d'art. Not a human is in sight, though Lanting's artistry and perseverance are hard to miss in these kingdoms where he was the intruder and adversary. As he notes, "I have seen leaf-cutter ants eat my tent, fungi grow in my lenses, and larvae emerge from the flesh of my leg." This reasonably priced volume is ideal for the bright child who needs to know there's a world beyond PlayStation2--a world of drama, danger and grandeur...