Archive for July, 2008

U.S. President Busted For Speeding

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

When Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president of the United States of America, he was a war hero. He had not only fought in, but won, some of the bloodiest battles in United States history.  When we Americans voted for him, we thought we were getting a president who was bold, brave and brash, but here are some […]

Microraptor - A four-winged dinosaur

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Xu Xing, who USA Today has called “China’s real-life Indiana Jones”, uncovered specimens of this most unusal dinosaur in the fossil beds of Liaoning Province in northeastern China. Xu Xing works at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China.  In the January 23rd issue of the journal Nature,  Xu and his colleagues […]