Reuters - A spectacularly quirky creature with
long, curved spines protruding from its armored body prowled
the ocean floor half a billion years ago near the dawn of
complex life forms on Earth, scientists said.
AFP - NASA on Friday released never-before-seen images of Saturn captured from above and below the planet's stunning rings by its Cassini spacecraft.
AFP - President George W. Bush said Friday he would tour areas devastated by deadly tornadoes in the South as US and Canada reeled from a winter storm system that killed at least 22 people.
AFP - President George W. Bush said Friday he would tour areas devastated by deadly tornadoes in the South as US and Canada reeled from a winter storm system that killed at least 22 people.
AP - A marked decline in sea ice off Alaska's coast is not enough to take the drastic step of listing polar bears — a species dependent on ice — as threatened, critics said Thursday at the first of three public hearings on the proposal.
AP - Archaeologists have discovered extensive remains of what is believed to be an ancient marketplace with shops and a religious center at the southern edge of Athens, the Culture Ministry said Friday. The finds, in the coastal neighborhood of Voula, date from the 4th or 5th century B.C.
AP - Famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard is leading a team of scientists heading into the Gulf of Mexico for a weeklong examination of Texas' ancient shoreline to see if anybody may have lived there.
AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope Thursday that the "active debate" in the U.S. administration and Congress on global warming will spur the United States to take a leadership role in combatting climate change.
