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One Year Later: Costa Concordia reveals its darkest secrets (W/Video Report)

March 20, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Photo: The Costa Concordia in better days (31 July 2009). CREDIT: Cezary Piwowarski SOURCE: Wikipedia (Public Domain).

From CNN By Dan Rivers, CNN

updated 3:33 PM EST, Thu March 7, 2013

Giglio, Italy (CNN) — The shock of seeing the forlorn hulk of the Costa Concordia hasn’t been dimmed by time. I’m here once again on the pristine little Italian island of Giglio, made famous not for its beauty, but for the tragedy on its shores.

The Concordia is illuminated by salvage vessels in the inky dark March night. Plans are well advanced to move the vessel, but for now it remains stranded, a macabre beacon at the entrance to the island’s main port. . . . Read Complete Report w/photos, videos and related links

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Scientists clone extinct frog that gives birth from its mouth

March 18, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / 2 comments

From Gizmag

 

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March 17, 2013

Australian scientists have successfully revived and reactivated the genome of an extinct frog. The “Lazarus Project” team implanted cell nuclei from tissues collected in the 1970s and kept in a conventional deep freezer for 40 years into donor eggs from a distantly-related frog. Some of the eggs spontaneously began to divide and grow to early embryo stage with tests confirming the dividing cells contained genetic material from the extinct frog.

The extinct frog in question is the Rheobatrachus silus, one of only two species of gastric-brooding frogs, or Platypus frogs, native to Queensland, Australia. Both species became extinct in the mid-1980s and were unique amongst frog species for the way in which they incubated their offspring. After the eggs were fertilized by the male, the female would then swallow the eggs until they hatched. The tadpoles would then develop in the female’s stomach for at least six weeks – during which time the female would not eat – before being regurgitated and raised in shallow water. . . . Read Complete Report

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