Didn’t think of this, but it makes sense. The warmer it gets, the more salt gets concentrated or removed depending on which way the water to vapor cycle has been trending:
Category Archive: nature
Mar 31 2012
Giant prehistoric snake coming soon to a town near you
PZ may have his colorful mollusca, aka cephalopods, but here at the Zingularity we’re talking giant prehistoric snake evolution like something right out of a b-movie! Meet Titanoboa, 50 feet long and weighing over a ton. It could have gulped down an adult with room left over for the rest of the family and its close cousins …
Mar 17 2012
The icy finger of death!
In the video below the fold from the new nature special Frozen Planet, time lasped photography captures a deadly growing brinacle. What is a brinacle you ask?
Feb 21 2012
Permian forest brought to scientific life
Paleobiologists of all kinds are used to dealing with frustrating scraps. Occasionally they get entire bones and once in a blue moon a nearly complete skeleton or fossil of an extinct plant or animal. But scientists working with remains below a Mongolian coal mine have done one better, they found a 300 million year old forest …
Feb 10 2012
Mystery of the severely purple squirrel
Yes, that’s really a squirrel and its really, severely, purple. No one seems to know why, could be a hoax, or something else. Put on your skeptic hats and offer some ideas.
Feb 09 2012
Godless scientists announce Pangea Mark II to form … soon
The earth’s north pole won’t always be an iced over ocean and I don’t mean (just) because of climate change. We’re talking Pangea II here and in geological time, it’s not even that far off. At least that’s what some secular scientists at an elite east coast university claim:
Jan 17 2012
Lost fossils from Darwin discovered
It seems a Dr Howard Lang was in the archives of the British Geological Survey when he found some drawers marked Unregistered Fossil Plants. Inside were hundreds of fossils that have not seen the light of day for a smuch as 165 years. Museum curators soon realized that some of the material was actually collected or analyzed by …
Jan 16 2012
Evolution marches on, and sometimes its adorable
Well, maybe not evolution per se, but the stuff of evolution, i.e., genetic diversity manifested as morphological variance, and this is a pretty cute example if indeed it’s a product of heritable genotype. Click image for the skinny on this adorable little guy from Nat’l Geo.
Jan 15 2012
Updated: Phobos-Grunt reentering upper atmosphere
Update 12:10 AM CDT: nothing official but it seems to have reentered and crashed into Pacific Ocean a few mins ago. Click image above for latest info. Follow the latest events on Twitter using the hashtag #PhobosGrunt and follow @PHG_Reentry. The ill-fated Phobos-Grunt mission, which would have returned samples from the tiny Martian satellite Phobos, will …
Jan 12 2012
World’s tiniest vertebrate
If a princess were to kiss this tiny amphibian and turn it into a person, she would have a pygmy for a prince.
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