A baby mammoth, thought to have died 10,000 years ago, has been unearthed in the permafrost of north-west Siberia on the Yamal peninsula. Scientists say this could be the best preserved specimen of its type.
The six-month old frozen female calf is so well preserved that it looks like it died only days ago, with its trunk and eyes still intact. The trunk has a rare notch at its tip, and some fur remains on the body.
"The mammoth has no defects except that its tail was bit off," said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy director of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. "In terms of its state of preservation, this is the world's most valuable discovery."
The mammoth, which weighed 110 lbs. and measured in at 130 cm, was discovered by Yuri Khudi, a reindeer herder, who named it Lyuba after his wife.
Some scientists are hopeful that well-preserved sperm or other cells containing usable DNA could be used to bring mammoths back from the dead. This would involve fusing the nucleus of a mammoth cell with a modern elephant egg cell that has been stripped of its own DNA.
The woolly mammoth is an extinct member of the elephant family. They once roamed the northern parts of Eurasia and North America, feeding on vegetation such as grasses and shrubs. Its species was first recorded in deposits of the second last glaciation in Eurasia, possibly 150,000 years ago.
The frozen carcass will be transferred to Jikei University School of Medicine in Japan for further
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Princeton University scholar and New York Times columnist Mr. Paul Krugman of Sweden, won the Nobel economic prize Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity.
Krugman has been a harsh critic of the Bush administration and the Republican Party in The New York Times, where he writes a regular column and has a blog called "Conscience of a Liberal."
He has come out forcefully against John McCain during the economic meltdown, saying the Republican candidate is "more frightening now than he was a few weeks ago" and earlier that the GOP has become "the party of stupid."
The 55-year-old American economist was the lone of winner of the 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) award and the latest in a string of American researchers to be honored. It was only the second time since 2000 that a single laureate won the prize, which is typically shared by two or three researchers.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised Krugman for formulating a new theory to answer questions about free trade.
"What are the effects of free trade and globalization? What are the driving forces behind worldwide urbanization? Paul Krugman has formulated a new theory to answer these questions," the academy said in its citation.
"He has thereby integrated the previously disparate research fields of international trade and economic geography," it said.
The award, known as the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is the last of the six Nobel prizes announced this year and is not one of the original Nobels. It was created in 1968 by the Swedish central bank in Alfred Nobel's memory.
A Japanese restaurant has employed a pair of monkeys for serving their customers.
The two monkeys namely Yat-chan and Fuku-chan serving the customers really well. Those monkeys will be paid with peanuts for their work.
Apart from that the customers tip the monkey's with boiled Soya beans. Fuku chan who is only two years of experience will give hot towels to customers to clean their hand. Since it is not much experienced its work load is limited to that.
These kinds of services may be expected in other countries too.
Ganguly announced his retirement while giving interview to media in Bangalore. He said that he will quit from test cricket after this Aussie series.
He thanked his supporters and cricket board. He also said there is no fight between him and cricket board.
Ganguly is fondly called as "Prince of Kolkata" and "Dada" his fans. His announcement about retirement has made all cricket fans to feel sad, especially kolkata fans.
He is the most successful captain of Indian cricket team so far. He is the only cricketer to achieve four consecutive man of match the awards in ODI and third player to cross 10,000 run milestone.
Hats off!! To this great player who showed a new dimension for Indian cricket team. I am proud to be his fan and hope you all. Lets wish him to play well in his final series.
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Johnny depp, best known for his great character Jack sparrow in "The pirates of Caribbean series" will be paid 32m pounds for the next series.
Johnny's payout would beat Tom hank's 29 million pound record for the 'Da Vinci' sequel, 'Angels and Demons'.
Though the pay is very huge, without Johnny depp the movie can't be finished. Apart from that he is a special ingredient in the movie who won lots of fans for his character Captain Jack sparrow.
His absence in movie might affect the popularity of the movie. "The fourth series is planned to shoot from 2009" says Walt Disney pictures.
The Rajini's Robo has been renamed to "Endiran". Lots of fake stills of this movie available in net. So don't waste your time in seeing duplicate images.
The original picture has been released. Just check out the following original still of Rajini's Endiran movie.
Just post your comments about the picture.
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The dorector of the movie is Goldie Behl who gave box office hit for Abishek in his movie Bas Itna Sa Khwab Hai. They joined once again for DRONA with a story line about a superhero. Abishek does the Drona role along with Priyanka Chopra. Kay Kay Menon acts as a main villain in the movie. The film budget about 20 crores was the highlight. The surprising fact is that more than 10 crores were spent for Kay Kay character.
Story:
Abishek is an orphan with a name Aditya who didn't experience true love in his life. In due time he was leaded to kada (a thick bangle like bracelet) by a magical blue petal and he wears it in his wrist. The Evil Riz Raizada (Kay Kay Menon) who plans to rule whole world came to know that he should defeat Drona to make is plan success. But he doesn't know who drona is and where he is.
Fate makes Aditya and evil Riz to meet face to face. Riz identifies that Aditya is Drona on seeing the Kada. Riz tries to kill him. Aditya starts to run for his life and at that time he meets Sonia (Priyanka Chopra) who came to protect him. She explains Aditya that she is a body guard of him and he is actually Drona, the savior of world. The real mother of Drona is Queen Jayati Devi (Jaya Bachchan).
Whether Drona saved his mother? Did he defeat Riz or not? the answers for these questions are given in the end of movie.
This movie is a big disappointment for Abishek's fans. Huge amount of money was wasted in this horribly illogical film. No proper story and characters are poorly written. Lots of questions came to my mind after watching this movie and am totally confused. Abishek kills a monster with a single punch itself tells about the over heroism in the movie which not at all fit for him.
Only positive point in the movie is special effects.
It's an utter waste movie better avoid watching it.
