WELLINGTON, New Zealand — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period. Researchers studying huge vertebrae discovered on a beach ...
“December is a bewitching month. The grey of cold teases to explode into something worthwhile, into a dream of cold, a starlight shower you can taste, a cold that does not chill.” — Joseph Coelho By SCOT STEWART Marquette birding enthusiast It is finally official. Winter is here. New ...
MARQUETTE — There are some graphic novels that are new to the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. Here is a description of some of them, broken down into adult, teen and children’s categories: Adult novels “Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis,” by Chris Ryall — ...
I have learned quite a bit about cranberries this year, and I wanted to share my research. In August, I visited a cranberry bog near Eagle River, Wisconsin, not far from the Michigan border, while on a trip with my mother and sister to get a spinning wheel I found on Facebook Marketplace. ...
Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal "even though it's actually very risky," said Paul-Antoine Libourel, a researcher at the Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon ...
Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead. Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter. It's the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the longest day of the year and ...