The BBC will today screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution. BBC1 viewers will see the penguins not only take flight from the Antarctic wastes, but fly thousands of miles to the Amazonian rainforest to find winter sun. (The Telegraph)
You need some serious luck to find a 53-million-year-old rabbit’s foot. As it happens, Kenneth Rose was so fortunate — but it took him a few years to realize it. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine anatomy professor unearthed curious bones in India several years ago. He suspected they were important but could not identify them. So he stored them in a drawer until serendipity struck in spring 2007.
“One day I was teaching my mammals course and showing the [students] the foot of a jackrabbit, and I said, ‘Hey, that’s what we have in the drawer.’”
That fateful foot now appears to belong to the world’s earliest known rabbit found so far, some three to four million years older than its closest contemporary. (National Geographic)
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