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9-foot ‘butcher crocodile’ likely ruled before dinosaurs

03/19/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
A life reconstruction of the giant crocodile ancestor (Carnufex carolinensis) that lived some 231 million years ago in what is now North Carolina. (Copyright Jorge Gonzales. Open access) A 9-foot-tall beast with bladelike teeth once stalked the warm and wet…

How pollution is harming the Earth – and our health

04/28/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
The skyline of downtown Los Angeles through a layer of smog is seen in the distance from a rooftop in Hollywood, California, May 31, 2006. (REUTERS/Fred Prouser/Files) Pollution, quite literally, stinks. And as ominous images from around the world show,…

Remembering the Rt. Rev. Ray Price — country music star and the coolest cat in the alley

12/17/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
FILE — Jan. 7, 2011: Country Music Hall of Fame member and Grammy award winner Ray “The Cherokee Cowboy” Price celebrates his 86th birthday by performing in Bullard Texas. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman) It was 8:15ish am. I was…

For the first time you can watch the Earth spin from your browser

11/22/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
(NASA) You might not have hundreds of thousands of dollars for a seat on Richard Branson’s private shuttle, but one enterprising outfit is about to offer the next best thing: the chance to see the Earth from space, from the…

Extraterrestrials on Earth: Scientists find outer space stuff at South Pole

11/21/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The IceCube Laboratory sits on the surface of the ice on top of the detector, collecting data from sensors under the ice. All 5,160 sensors that make up the in-ice array are connected to the lab via cable. (Sven Lidstrom,…

NASA photographs Pluto’s moon Charon

07/12/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
New Horizons LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) composite image showing the detection of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, cleanly separated from Pluto itself. The frame on the left is an average of six different LORRI images, each taken with (NASA/Johns Hopkins…

Sun celebrates July Fourth, unleashes solar fireworks

07/04/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The sun unleashed an M1.5-class solar flare (lower left) on July 3, 2013, a solar fireworks to the traditional Fourth of July holiday in the United States. (NASA/SDO) The sun fired off an intense solar flare Wednesday, giving NASA scientists…

Sun unleashes spectacular solar eruption

05/06/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT. (NASA/SDO/AIA)…

Sun unleashes biggest solar flare of the year yet

04/12/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a powerful M6.5 class flare, the strongest of 2013 at the time, at 3:16 EDT on April 11, 2013. This image shows a combination of light in wavelengths of 131 and 171…

Tourism booming at towns believed to offer Mayan apocalypse protection

12/12/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
The village of Bugarach in France is being inundated with booking requests from believers of the Mayan prophecy. (Reuters) June 24, 2011: The Bugarach mountain peak in southern France. (AP) In Sirince, Turkey hotel bookings have reached record proportions. (Reuters)…