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Maryland Cremation Services supervisor Ginger Rowley loads the remains of a covid-19 victim into a cremator in Millersville, Maryland. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)
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Researchers believed that they have found a new species of beaked whale off Mexico s western Pacific coast, a U.S. marine mammal biologist told media recently.
Jay Barlow, a retired adjunct professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, said their team spotted three unusual specimens on Nov. 17 near Mexico s remote San Benito Islands, about 500 km south of the U.S. border.
The beaked whales look and sound different from the approximately 23 other known species, according to the professor.
The team was sailing in the sea in mid-November, in hopes of identifying the source of an unidentified acoustic signal, when they came upon the new beaked whales who actually swam up near their ship, Barlow said.
New Study Helps Pinpoint When Earth’s Plate Subduction Began
A new study from scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the University of Chicago sheds light on a hotly contested debate in Earth sciences: when did plate subduction begin?
According to findings published Dec. 9 in the journal Science Advances, this process could have started 3.75 billion years ago, reshaping Earth’s surface and setting the stage for a planet hospitable to life.
For geochemists like Scripps assistant professor and study lead author Sarah Aarons, the clues to Earth’s earliest habitability lie in the elements that ancient rocks are composed of – specifically titanium. Aarons analyzed samples of Earth’s oldest-known rocks from the Acasta Gneiss Complex in the Canadian tundra – an outcrop of gneisses 4.02 billion years old. These rocks are dated from the Hadean eon, which started at the beginning of Earth’s formation and was defined by hellish conditions on a pla
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Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, died Wednesday at age 88. Worden died in his sleep at a rehab center in Houston following treatment for an infection, said friend and colleague Tom Kallman. “Al was an American hero whose achievements in space and on Earth… NASA Feb 28, 2020