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Arizona is Going to Get Another Meteor Crater, Only Bigger. And We Know Where and Why. 

This is NOT a killer asteroid entering the Earth's atmosphere. It is a sun dog over Oak Flat Campground near Superior, Arizona. Oak Flat is going to become a gigantic crater. Because it won't be a meteor that causes it. It won't be an atomic bomb test. And it won't be because of aliens like those stupid ones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The giant crater will

Women In Science In Canada 

Today is the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre at École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec that saw 14 women murdered, and another 10 women and 4 men injured by killer who deliberately targeted women. Mika McKinnon at io9 honours the deceased by reminding us of a small fraction of women who have contributed to science in Canada, including Frances Wagner, a micropalaeontologist

M6.1 earthquake strikes Indonesia's Aceh province 

     In 2004, an earthquake of estimated magnitude 9.1-9.3 off Aceh province in Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed an estimated 230,000 people around the Pacific Rim in Asia. Today a much smaller, M6.1 struck, killing at least one person (possibly many more, news reports are still coming in), leaving two others missing, dozens injured, and several dozen homes damaged. The earthquake caused at least one landslide.Map of Indonesia; the red square near Jakarta shows [...]

Killer Bobble-Headed Penguins! 

Spheniscus penguins are your basic model.  Collectively, the four living species are sometimes known as “tuxedo penguins” for their striking color patterns, which resemble a tuxedo motif just a bit more than those of other types of penguins. These four species are among the most warm-weather adapted of modern penguins, and live in Africa, South

Hypercursorial Killer Crocs 

There are quite a few “croc-grade” archosaurs out there that are peculiar, virtually most branches up until we get to “modern crocs” (i.e., gavials, crocs “proper” and gators, including caimans) seem fairly “croc-like” but differ in some peculiarities. We’ll discuss one of these in a bit. You won’t confuse giant Deinosuchus with any other archosaur

Hymenocera picta! The dreaded killer of Starfish! 

(image from Wikipedia!)Greetings! We have just passed the July 4th holiday this weekend and so, I am playing catch up!Today some videos of a cool looking gnathophyllid shrimp that does TERRIBLE things to echinoderms! It attacks and eats sea stars! It is the Hannibal Lector of the asteroid world! And people have the temerity to call it a Harlequin Shrimp!Apparently, these will feed on a