Corvus brachyrhynchos *Just filmed in 2011, this video demonstrates just how astoundingly smart these birds are " The Crow and the Pitcher A thirsty Crow found a Pitcher with some water in it, but so little was there that, try as she might, she could not reach it with her beak, and it seemed as though she would die of thirst within sight of the remedy. At last she hit upon a clever plan. She began dropping pebbles into the Pitcher, and with each pebble the water rose a little higher until at last it reached the brim, and the knowing bird was enabled to quench her thirst. Necessity is the mother of invention. -Aesop " Hi ATS, Crows and their relatives the Raven are some of my most favorite creatures in the whole world....

"Its heat may increase the rate of ice loss from one of the continent’s major ice streams It wasn’t what they were looking for but that only made the discovery all the more exciting." Or maybe is already increasing the rate of loss. What price AGW if that is the case? Since West Antarctica is one of the areas that Climate Alarmism is concerned about, maybe it actually has very little to do with climate after all? "Uncertain at first, the more Lough and her colleagues looked, the more convinced they became that a new volcano was forming a kilometer beneath the ice. The discovery of the new as yet unnamed volcano is announced...

" A new, improved sequencing of ancient human relative genomes reveals that Homo sapiens didn't only have sex with Neanderthals and a little-understood line of humans called Denisovans. A fourth, mystery lineage of humans was in the mix, too. As reported by the news arm of the journal Nature, new genetic evidence suggests...

The video above compares highly detailed amateur photos of Comet Ison to the blurry and edited "cotton ball" images presented to the public by NASA. By all logic, NASA should be able to produce images of equal or better quality, due to seemingly unlimited budget for highly advanced equipment...

"Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) introduced a resolution this week in the House of Representatives urging President Barack Obama to declassify 28 pages of a joint House and Senate Intelligence Committee report that includes information concerning foreign governments'...

I don't think Fred knows that he's actually putting his people in DANGER if he allows them to do this. "In a series of deliberately-provocative Twitter posts, the church says it is buying plane tickets to South Africa and...

" CANON CITY, Colo. - A six year old boy is suspended from school in Canon City for kissing a classmate on the cheek His mother says it's a crush and the two children like each other. But the school is calling it something else; sexual harassment. First grader, Hunter Yelton, told us he loves...

I was just thinking about life here on Earth and it's origins, Evolution and extinction. A rather interesting thought accoured to me. I thought I'd share it. As far as I know there have been several "ELE" Extinction Level events on Earth. Ok, maybe not Extinction Level events but several times in Earth's history of massive dies offs....

Not sure if this has been posted yet. Tried the search box but it`s not working for me. Here it goe anyway but mods please remove if it has been posted already. "The city of Heracleion was engulfed underwater 1500 years...

So...We finally find a bill that passes easily with bi-partisan support through Congress. Unfortunately it re-authorizes the Fed to bailout banks that gamble on swaps and derivatives... And it...

While the man credited with inventing this "mental disorder", US American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, died in 2009, the didnt appear until 2012. . "Fortunately, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NEK, President: Otfried Höffe) critically commented on the use of the ADHD drug...

They aren't even pretending anymore. This is what the symbol says to me: "IN YOUR FACE, PLANET EARTH! We rule you like a giant vampire-squid-o-pus, our tentacles wrapped around your throat, squeezing the lifeblood of all information from you, suction...

Not sure if this has been posted, did a search but it came up blank. Astronomers from the University of Arizona have discovered a distant exoplanet with a set of characteristics so bizarre that they say it should not even exist. "With a mass about 11 times that of Jupiter and an orbit...

This is an observation more than anything, and i obviously do not have any solid proof. However In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing number of new members who, given the length of time they have been here, have an incredible amount of posts (500+ within a month of signing up). Many of these seem to be...