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A 2,000 Year Old Brain

December 13, 2008

Archaeologists have found what they say is the oldest brain ever discovered in Britain, or at least the shriveled remnant of one, in a decapitated skull that dates back more than 2,000 years.

Inside the skull, the scientists found “a yellow substance which scans showed to be shrunken, but brain-shaped,” according to a University of York statement.

“I’m amazed and excited that scanning has shown structures which appear to be unequivocally of brain origin,” said Philip Duffey, a neurologist at York Hospital who scanned the skull.

The researchers do not claim the brain is the oldest in the world, as some news reports suggested.

[from Fox News]

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Prehistoric Flying Reptile Was Bigger Than a Car

December 5, 2008

A fossil of a toothless flying pterosaur, with a body bigger than some family cars, represents one of the largest of these extinct reptiles ever to be found and has forced the creation of a new genus, scientists announced today.

Pterosaurs ruled the skies 115 million years ago during the dinosaur age. They are often mistaken for dinosaurs.

[From Fox News]

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Hair Color and Age

The color of your hair, your age, and even your gender have an impact on how many hairs are on your head. These modifiers even have a say in the denseness, and rate of growth of your hair. For example male hair is more dense than female hair, and females hair grows slower than males. [...]

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Oak Trees and Acorns

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are at least 20 years old. Some don’t have their first year of acorn production until they are 50 years old. The tree will be producing thousands of acorns by the time it is 70-80 years old. Of these acorns, only about 1 in [...]

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Average Animal Life Spans

The vast majority of animals have shorter life expectancies than humans do, and typically the lifespan of the animal increases with size. Some examples include:
Cats and cetaceans (whales and dolphins) have lifespans in the 20-30 year range.
Large herbivores (cattle, horses, camels, deer) in the 30-50 year range.
Birds usually live 10-30 years, with parrots – particularly [...]

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Supercentenarian

From wikipedia.org
“A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only one in a thousand centenarians (0.1%, based on European data). In turn, only about one supercentenarian in forty-four lives to turn 115 (2% of 110-year-olds can expect to survive five more years).”
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Crocodile Lifespan

“Crocodiles live between 45-85 years.”
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Oldest River in the World

“The New River located in West Virgina, United States, is the second oldest river in the world, second only to the Nile River.”
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