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What really fascinates scientists about the fishapod is that it fits so neatly into one of the most exciting chapters in the history of life--when creatures that swam in seas and rivers gave rise to things that walked, ran and crept on land. The fishapod appears to be a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Cousin The Fishapod | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

The fishapod was among the pioneering organisms to take advantage of an ecological frontier--the marshy floodplains of large rivers--that opened between 410 million and 356 million years ago during the Devonian period, known as the Age of Fishes. Early in the Devonian, the continents were mostly masses of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Cousin The Fishapod | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

The biggest basin lies well east of the Bay, in the broad delta formed by the convergence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. Among the most catastrophic consequences of a big earthquake in the Bay Area, says University of California at Davis geologist Jeffrey Mount, would be the failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from the San Francisco Earthquake | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

As someone who has tested many portable navigators, I first noticed the clarity and crispness of the screen - not just the LCD panel but the graphics that appeared on it. Sony appears to have paid a higher degree of attention to the graphical user interface than any of its competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sony Nav-U NV-U70 Portable In-Car Navigator | 3/29/2006 | See Source »

In Alaska, salmon populations are at risk as melting permafrost pours mud into rivers, burying the gravel the fish need for spawning. Small animals such as bushy-tailed wood rats, alpine chipmunks and piņon mice are being chased upslope by rising temperatures, following the path of the fleeing trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming Heats Up | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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