In the land before time, "dragons" walked the earth.
Canadian paleontologists uncovered a new species of mythically-proportioned dinosaur that most likely lived more than 160 million years ago, according to their findings, published this week.
Chinese farmers discovered the fossil of the 50-foot Qijianlong, or the "Dragon of Quijiang," while digging for a fish pond in southern China in 2006, CNN reported.
160-million-year-old ‘dragon’ dinosaur discovered in China
Japan outraged as video purportedly shows hostage beheaded
Japan and other nations condemned with outrage and horror on Sunday the beheading purportedly by the Islamic State group of Kenji Goto, a journalist who sought through his coverage of Syria to convey the plight of refugees, children and other victims of war.
The failure to save Goto raised fears for the life of a Jordanian fighter pilot also held hostage by the extremists. Unlike earlier messages, an online video purporting to show an Islamic State group militant beheading Goto, circulated via social media late Saturday by militant sympathizers, did not mention the pilot.
Second Oil “Bomb Train” Derailment in Philadelphia in One Year
Today the second major oil “bomb train” derailment occurred in Philadelphia, risking residents’ lives, endangering drivers on one of the nation’s busiest highways, I-95, and putting waterways at risk. One year and eleven days ago, early on Martin Luther King Day 2014, seven cars carrying Bakken Shale crude derailed over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in a “near miss from disaster.”
That derailment put the entire University of Pennsylvania medical complex, the Schuylkill Expressway, the Veterans Administration, Children’s Hospital, and other major institutions at risk, along with a chunk of Philadelphia’s residential population too big to safely evacuate.
Scientists have found a way to ‘unboil’ eggs – and it could be a life-saver
It sounds like the breakthrough that no one was asking for: scientists have announced they have managed to “unboil” an egg. In a disgusting-sounding experiment that you probably shouldn’t try at home, an international team of researchers have used urea, one of the main components of urine, and a “vortex fluid device” to uncook a hen’s egg.
They believe the findings could dramatically reduce costs in processes as far apart as cheese manufacturing and cancer research.
There’s A Treatment For Heroin Addiction That Actually Works. Why Aren’t We Using It?
For addicts, cravings override all normal rules of behavior. In interviews throughout Northern Kentucky, addicts and their families described the insanity that takes hold. Some addicts shared stories of shooting up behind the wheel while driving down Interstate 75 out of Cincinnati, or pulling over at an early exit, a Kroger parking lot.
A mother lamented her stolen heirloom jewelry and the dismantling of the family cabin piece by piece until every inch had been sold off. Addicts stripped so many houses, barns, and churches of copper and fixtures in one Kentucky county that the sheriff formed a task force. Another overdosed on the couch, and his parents thought maybe they should just let him go.
Millions Of Gallons Of Oil Settled At The Bottom Of The Gulf After BP Oil Spill
Millions of gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill didn’t get cleaned up, and instead settled in the sediment of the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, a new study has found.
The study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, found that 6 to 10 million gallons of oil from the spill are buried in the seafloor. The researchers measured the amount of carbon 14 — a radioactive carbon isotope that’s found in organic material but not found in oil — in an approximately 24,000 km² area of sediment near the spill site, a process which allowed them to see what parts of the sediment were low in carbon 14 and thus contained oil.
CDC: Flu hospitalizations for elderly highest ever recorded
The CDC warned the 2014-15 flu season would be a bad one and new numbers from the agency's weekly FluView report show the elderly, in particular are spending more time in the hospital because of it.
About 198 out of every 100,000 people 65 and older have been hospitalized this season with a flu-related illness. A total of 86,000 elderly have been hospitalized.
Ohio postpones 2015 executions in search for lethal injection drugs
Ohio has postponed the executions of seven death row inmates so it can procure an adequate supply of its new two-drug lethal injection protocol.
U.S. District Court Judge Gregory L. Frost ordered the stay of all executions scheduled to take place in 2015 after the state changed the drugs it uses in executions.
The change came after it took an extended amount of time for Dennis McGuire to die by lethal injection in 2014. The state used a new combination of drugs for his execution, midazolam and hydromorphone.
Iraq cities rocked by deadly attacks
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters struck at Kurdish forces southwest of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, while bombs in and near Baghdad killed 27 people, security and medical sources said.
Police in the northern province of Kirkuk said ISIL launched mortars and attacked positions of Kurdish peshmerga fighters in four districts southwest of Kirkuk City.
Since surging across the Syrian border last summer, ISIL has frequently battled security forces and Shia armed groups in the south and west of Iraq, but attacks on the outskirts of Kurdish-controlled Kirkuk have been rare.
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