Articles form Nature

Stonehenge was cemetery first and foremost

New radiocarbon dating suggests that Stonehenge represents giant tombstones to the dead for centuries, perhaps for the members of a ruling prehistoric dynasty.

Research suggests that the site was initially intended to be a cemetery since the time it was built 5000 years ago. The analysis of ancient human remains which were found at the [...]

T-Rex’s killer could fly and weighed 250 kg

As tall as giraffes, winged reptiles killed hundreds of land dinosaurs, and not marine fauna as it was initially believed.

“Winged lizards” as they are called by specialists, presented a special category, which reached gigantic dimensions. The Quetzalcoatlus reptiles can be taken as an example. These reptiles weighed 250 kg,had a wing span of over [...]

New threat to spotted owl exposed

Recent studies have shown that there are certain blood parasites and strains in Spotted Owl, which make them have a much more fragile immune system that previously thought. This study was the first to show a Spotted Owl infected with avian malaria.
The initial study was conducted in order to investigate blood-borne parasites in birds of [...]

Life at 1.6km under the sea

On the coast Newfoundland from Canada, scientists have discovered a species of germs, which live at 1.6km under the sea bed, which is at its turn under 4.5 km of water.

These germs are unicelular organisms, surviving in an ecosystem where there is no light. The scientists which have discovered them are still not sure how [...]