A little boy goes out exploring near his Michigan home and ends up making a prehistoric find! The nine-year-old stumbled across the tooth of a mastodon in a creek by his house. Mastodons were an elephant-like beast that roamed North America 10,000 years ago.
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Personal trainer Criticized for Working Out While Pregnant
Santa Monica personal trainer Sara Haley, one of the nation’s leading fitness trainers according to Shape, faces insults and glares from fellow gym-goers for maintaining her workout routine while 35 weeks pregnant, according to NYDN. Some people just stare and whisper to one another, she says, but some go further, making comments such as, “Wow, those are the worst stretch …
Read More »South Korea ferry disaster: 108 bodies retrieved
The death toll from the sunken South Korean ferry has rose to 108 on the sixth day of the search operations. Dozens of bodies were retrieved over the last two days, but 190 remain missing, Euronews reported. Many of the victims were children, travelling on a school trip to the resort island Jeju.
Read More »Uma Thurman ends engagement to fiance Arki Busson
Uma Thurman is thought to have separated from multi-millionaire fiancé Arpad Busson after an on-off relationship lasting seven years. Throughout their engagement the duo have lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with the Kill Bill actress based in New York and her partner in London. Sightings of them together have been few and far between since last year, reports …
Read More »Frozen breaks records, Highest Animated Int’l Grosser Of All Time
Frozen has become the most commercially successful animated feature in history. Frozen has become the highest-grossing animated film ever made. Four months and two Academy Awards after its release, Frozen has officially surpassed Toy Story 3 as the top-grossing animated film to date. This makes it the first billion-dollar movie to come out of Disney Animation Studios. I’d say that’s …
Read More »Vitamins B3 found in Meteorites, Study
The theory that life, or at least the basic components of life, arrived on Earth from space during comet and meteor impacts got a boost this week. Researchers in a NASA-funded study found evidence that vitamin B3, also known as niacin, may have been originally delivered to Earth by a carbon-rich meteorite. Working at Goddard’s Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, Pennsylvania State …
Read More »US FDA Approves Lilly’s Gastric Cancer Drug – Quick Facts
Eli Lilly and Co. announced FDA approval of a new cancer treatment on Monday. The drug Cyramza (ramucirumab) will treat patients with advanced stomach cancer or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, a form of cancer located in the region where the esophagus joins the stomach.
Read More »Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: (LIVESTREAM VIDEO)
There is no better way to ring-in Earth Day early Tuesday morning than to enjoy one of Earth’s oldest known meteor showers, the Lyrid Meteor Shower. The Lyrids generally begin on April 16 and end on April 26, with the maximum number of meteors generally occurring tonight. At maximum, hourly rates can reach about 10 to 20 meteors per hour.
Read More »NYIAS: Honda unveils dancing humanoid Robot ASIMO
Honda’s Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility robot – better known as ASIMO – has shown off its latest moves at the New York Auto Show. Shortly after unveiling the new Honda Fit (Honda Jazz), the Japanese carmaker called upon the robot to demonstrate its latest tricks for onlookers.
Read More »Lindsay Lohan had suffered miscarriage (Video)
Lindsay Lohan closed the first season of her reality show with a shocker by claiming she recently suffered a miscarriage. The 27-year-old actress and tabloid target made the stunning revelation on the season finale of her docu-series Lindsay, which airs in the U.S. and Canada on the Oprah Winfrey-owned OWN network.
Read More »Invasive carp’s DNA found in Muskingum River
Among all the bugs, plants, fish and critters that find their way into the Great Lakes from afar, Asian carp are swimming hard up the threat list. They typically eat 40 percent of their body weight every day in vegetation, plankton and the eggs of native species. Worse yet, these outsiders have virtually no predators to put their alarmingly rapid …
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