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Scientists claim to have captured an image that shows how dolphins perceive the world around them using echolocation. Using an imaging system called Cymascope, Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin, a dolphin communication research organization, and his team were able to isolate and record dolphin echolocation sounds directed onto specific objects. Kassewitz’s latest research showed the dolphin’s echolocated impression of a submerged …

Conservationists in Manitoba have issued a call to stop Manitoba’s declining moose population. Jack Dubois is with the Manitoba chapter of the Society, as well as a retired director of the wildlife branch of Manitoba Conservation. He says the province is doing some good things, but could be doing more: “They did put some new resources into moose, they hired …

Colombia claims to have discovered what’s been described as the ‘holy grail’ of shipwrecks of the coast of Cartagena. The wreck was found off the coast of Catagena, according to Juan Manuel Santos, the country’s president and supposedly is full of emeralds and gold and silver coins. The long-lost Spanish treasure galleon San Jose was carrying a large cargo of …

The Center for Whale Research says yet another orca calf has been spotted swimming with the southern resident killer whale population. This is the seventh new calf born to the endangered population of cetaceans in the last 12 months. L-123 was originally spotted last month, but it took scientists several months to confirm it was a new calf because of …

A team of researchers has released images and video of a US Navy plane which sank during the opening minutes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. “These were high priority targets for the Japanese,’ said National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration archaeologist Hans Van Tilburg. Its massive body is carpeted with algae. A haunting reminder of what could …

Dinosaur ‘disco’ footprints have been found by scientists on the Isle of Skye. The collection of hundreds and footprints, some spanning 70 cm is the largest Jurassic site discovered in Scotland. The rare tracks of handprints and footprints were made by plant-eating ‘sauropods’ and date back more than 170 million years ago. The creatures, whose identity is unknown, grew to …

Sun is the most important element of our solar system giving life to many. The solar activities have been recorded for ages but actual records were maintained by the United States space agency NASA. On Wednesday, NASA celebrated 20 years of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) by releasing a video. Initially, the main point of SOHO was to find …

The Chinese scientist behind the world’s biggest cloning factory can replicate humans using advanced technology, but he is not yet doing it, reports AFP. The giant cloning facility is set to open within the next seven months, and plans to be cloning 1 million cows a year by 2020. Other animals to be cloned include racehorses and police dogs.

Surveillance cameras in China caught mysterious images of three vehicles at a busy intersection, seemingly levitating off the street. A video emerged last week of cars being lifted up by an “unseen force” in Xingtai, China, which showed three cars at a busy intersection being lifted into the air for a few seconds before falling back to the ground.

The way dinosaurs nested could very well be the reason behind the evolutionary success of birds, according to new research from the University of Calgary. Kohei Tanaka, a PhD student in the Faculty of Science, recently published a paper in PLOS ONE where he and his co-authors demonstrate, for the first time, the link between dinosaur eggshell porosity and different …

Storms on Jupiter and Saturn are being 3D simulated by researchers at the University of Alberta. “Since the pioneering telescope observations of Giovanni Cassini in the mid-17th century, stargazers have wondered about the bands and spots of Jupiter,” says Moritz Heimpel, a physics professor at the U of A whose study produced the simulations of the observable phenomena. The bands …