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The Bermuda Triangle - BBC Video + Info (Part 1)
'The Bermuda Triangle: Beneath the Waves' - An online BBC Television Documentary which includes a dramatic re-enactment of the disappearance of 'Flight 19' (see 'info') and appearances by Richard Winer and Phil Beck.
"..Over the last century a thousand ships have been reported lost without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle. Using state-of-the-art technology, we're going to unlock one of the Ocean's deepest secrets..."
[Updated February 27th: Info (Part 2) now available]
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Goblin Shark: Rare Video of a 'Living fossil'
Rare video of a Goblin Shark caught in Tokyo Bay plus info and link to video of equally 'prehistoric' Frilled Shark.
The Mystery of the Human Hobbit: BBC Horizon Video 2005
BBC Horizon Video (running time: 49 mins) plus recent (Jan. 2007) news - "Anthropologist confirms 'Hobbit' a separate species" - and further reading: "What is a Hobbit?"
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Intelligent Design Video: 'Unlocking the Mystery of Life'
'Unlocking the Mystery of Life' - The scientific case for Intelligent Design:"Time, chance, and natural selection. Since Darwin, biologists have relied on such processes to account for the origin of living things. Yet today, this approach is being challenged as never before..."
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Intelligent Design: 'A War on Science' (BBC Horizon Video - 49 mins)
BBC Horizon's 'A War on Science' looks into the attempt to introduce ID into science classes in the US.(Originally broadcast on BBC Two at 2100GMT on Thursday, 26 January 2006)
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Talking Fish: Wide Variety of Sounds Discovered
Increasingly scientists are discovering unusual mechanisms by which fish make and hear secret whispers, grunts and thumps to attract mates and ward off the enemy....Currently the purposes of some fish sounds remain complete mysteries...
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The Eocene Epoch: Ancient insects used advanced camouflage
A fossil of a leaf-imitating insect from 47 million years ago bears a striking resemblance to the mimickers of today.The discovery represents the first fossil of a leaf insect (Eophyllium messelensis), and also shows that leaf imitation is an ancient and successful evolutionary strategy that has been conserved over a relatively long period of time.
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Evolution: Winning by a neck - Giraffes avoid competition
The giraffe's elongated neck has long been used in textbooks as an illustration of evolution by natural selection, but this common example has received very little experimental attention...
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Oldest animal fossils may have been Giant Bacteria
The oldest-known animal eggs and embryos, whose first pictures made the cover of Nature in 1998, were so small they looked like bugs - which, it now appears, they may have been.This week, a study in the same prestigious journal presents evidence for reinterpreting the 600 million-year-old fossils from the Precambrian era as giant bacteria.
Tarbosaurus: Rare dinosaur fossil unearthed by Korea-led team
Korea: "An international team supported by the Gyeonggi provincial government has excavated a rare dinosaur fossil in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia...
This is the first time that an entire fossil of the Tarbosaurus, which lived during the Cretaceous** period of the Mesozoic era about 80 million years ago, has been found."
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