<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>When the earth first moved: Fossil was first animal to have sex 570million years ago : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>When the earth first moved: Fossil was first animal to have sex 570million years ago : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-27T22:26:19+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[When the earth first moved: Fossil was first animal to have sex 570million years ago]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55572/1/" /><id>55572</id><summary><![CDATA[When the earth first moved: Fossil was first animal to have sex 570million years ago]]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T04:43:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T04:43:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It may be more than 570million years old and look like a knobbly rope, but scientist believe they have discovered the first animal on earth ever to have sex. The fossilised remains of this new species of organism was unearthed in Australia where the tube-like creatures lived in abundant flocks.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Shock: First Animal on Earth Was Surprisingly Complex]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/58145/1/" /><id>58145</id><summary><![CDATA[Shock: First Animal on Earth Was Surprisingly Complex]]></summary><issued>2008-04-14T04:11:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-14T04:11:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Earth's first animal was the ocean-drifting comb jelly, not the simple sponge, according to a new find that has shocked scientists who didn't imagine the earliest critter could be so complex.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists discover 356 animal inclusions trapped in 100 million years old opaque amber]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/56684/1/" /><id>56684</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists discover 356 animal inclusions trapped in 100 million years old opaque amber]]></summary><issued>2008-04-02T00:42:42+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-02T00:42:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Paleontologists from the University of Rennes (France) and the ESRF have found the presence of 356 animal inclusions in completely opaque amber from mid-Cretaceous sites of Charentes (France). The team used the X-rays of the European light source to image two kilogrammes of the fossil tree resin with a technique that allows rapid survey of large amounts of opaque amber.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Orchid fossil reveals flowers' domination of Earth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/33681/1/" /><id>33681</id><summary><![CDATA[Orchid fossil reveals flowers' domination of Earth]]></summary><issued>2007-08-29T21:20:11+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-29T21:20:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Researchers have discovered the first fossil orchid, a 15 to 20-million-year-old pollen specimen encased in amber, in the Dominican Republic. It suggests that the first orchids bloomed about 84 million years ago.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The first European: Created from fragments of fossil, the face of our forbears 35,000 years ago]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/111738/1/" /><id>111738</id><summary><![CDATA[The first European: Created from fragments of fossil, the face of our forbears 35,000 years ago]]></summary><issued>2009-05-04T23:15:28+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-04T23:15:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Dressed in a suit, this person would not look out of place in a busy street in a modern city.<br/><br/>The clay sculpture, however, portrays the face of the earliest known modern European - a man or woman who hunted deer and gathered fruit and herbs in ancient forests more than 35,000 years ago.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Horses first ridden - and milked - 5,500 years ago]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/98388/1/" /><id>98388</id><summary><![CDATA[Horses first ridden - and milked - 5,500 years ago]]></summary><issued>2009-03-08T20:45:29+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-08T20:45:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Horses were first domesticated on the plains of northern Kazakhstan some 5,500 years ago -- 1,000 years earlier than thought -- by people who rode them and drank their milk, researchers said on Thursday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Eleven new animal and plant species found in Vietnam: WWF]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/36747/1/" /><id>36747</id><summary><![CDATA[Eleven new animal and plant species found in Vietnam: WWF]]></summary><issued>2007-09-26T00:18:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-26T00:18:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Wednesday announced the discovery of 11 new animal and plant species in a remote area of central Vietnam. Scientists have found a snake, five orchids, two butterflies and three other plants new to science and exclusive to the Annamites Mountain Range.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Bald' bird Asia's first new bulbul in 100 years]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/129448/1/" /><id>129448</id><summary><![CDATA['Bald' bird Asia's first new bulbul in 100 years]]></summary><issued>2009-07-30T10:21:22+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-30T10:21:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A &quot;bald&quot; bird discovered in Laos is Asia's first new species of bulbul, a type of songbird, in more than 100 years, scientists say.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Earth's First Rainforest Unearthed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/17523/1/" /><id>17523</id><summary><![CDATA[Earth's First Rainforest Unearthed]]></summary><issued>2007-04-23T08:07:07+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-23T08:07:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The forest is composed of a bizarre mixture of extinct plants: abundant club mosses, more than 40 metres high, towering over a sub-canopy of tree ferns, intermixed with shrubs and tree-sized horsetails. Nowhere elsewhere on the planet is it possible to (literally) walk through such an extensive swathe of Carboniferous rainforest.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Earliest animal footprints uncovered]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/78866/1/" /><id>78866</id><summary><![CDATA[Earliest animal footprints uncovered]]></summary><issued>2008-10-07T09:25:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-07T09:25:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists have found the oldest fossilised tracks of a tiny legged animal, providing further evidence that complex creatures existed on earth 570 million years ago.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Eight-armed animal preceded dinosaurs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/80995/1/" /><id>80995</id><summary><![CDATA[Eight-armed animal preceded dinosaurs]]></summary><issued>2008-11-04T09:57:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-04T09:57:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature, which colonised a large section of the world's oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Most Fearless Animal On Earth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132726/1/" /><id>132726</id><summary><![CDATA[The Most Fearless Animal On Earth]]></summary><issued>2009-09-09T23:55:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-09T23:55:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Meet the honey badger, named &#8220;world&#8217;s most fearless animal&#8221; by the Guinness Book of World Records. Its ferocious reputation stems from the fact that the honey badger doesn&#8217;t hesitate to attack animals<br/>larger than itself. Scorpions, porcupines, snakes, young gazelles, lions and even small crocodiles]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Anna's Hummingbird declared fastest animal on Earth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/121609/1/" /><id>121609</id><summary><![CDATA[Anna's Hummingbird declared fastest animal on Earth]]></summary><issued>2009-06-10T03:01:16+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-10T03:01:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Researchers have found that the spectacular courtship dive of the Anna's Hummingbird makes it comparatively speedier than a jet fighter at full throttle or the space shuttle re-entering the atmosphere.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Oldest hominid discovered is 7 million years old: study]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/52345/1/" /><id>52345</id><summary><![CDATA[ Oldest hominid discovered is 7 million years old: study]]></summary><issued>2008-02-27T21:09:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-27T21:09:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[French fossil hunters have pinned down the age of Toumai, which they contend is the remains of the earliest human ever found, at between 6.8 and 7.2 million years old. The fossil was discovered in the Chadian desert in 2001 and an intense debate ensued over whether the nearly complete cranium, pieces of jawbone and teeth belonged to one of our earliest ancestors.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Google Earth launches interactive 3D moon atlas to celebrate Apollo landings]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/128538/1/" /><id>128538</id><summary><![CDATA[Google Earth launches interactive 3D moon atlas to celebrate Apollo landings]]></summary><issued>2009-07-21T06:22:47+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-21T06:22:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It&#8217;s exactly forty years ago today that Neil Armstrong took man&#8217;s first step on the moon.<br/><br/>And to mark the historic occasion Google Earth has taken the same leap in cyberspace.<br/><br/>The search engine leader today launched Moon in Google Earth, an interactive 3D atlas of the moon which allows space fans to take their very own virtual steps on the surface of our closest satellite.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Crucial Advice for Surviving the First Years (both you AND the baby)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12419/1/" /><id>12419</id><summary><![CDATA[Crucial Advice for Surviving the First Years (both you AND the baby)]]></summary><issued>2007-03-06T17:16:38+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-06T17:16:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Amusing article, although the page is wayyy too busy.  I'm pretty sure witty Plimates could add more to the list.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Beetles shared Earth with dinosaurs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44955/1/" /><id>44955</id><summary><![CDATA[Beetles shared Earth with dinosaurs]]></summary><issued>2007-12-21T07:19:52+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-21T07:19:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Beetles first appeared on Earth at the same time as the earliest dinosaurs but turned out to be much better survivors, a new evolutionary study has shown. Today, there are an estimated 350,000 known species of beetle on Earth, and probably several million more yet to be discovered, say scientists. The insects account for about a quarter of all life forms on the planet.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Carnivorous Dinosaur Tracks Discovered In Australia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/39126/1/" /><id>39126</id><summary><![CDATA[Carnivorous Dinosaur Tracks Discovered In Australia]]></summary><issued>2007-10-22T08:54:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-22T08:54:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by paleontologists. The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was still joined to Antarctica and close to the South Pole.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Animal Kingdom Comes Out of the Closet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sex/l/81274/1/" /><id>81274</id><summary><![CDATA[Animal Kingdom Comes Out of the Closet]]></summary><issued>2008-11-07T02:23:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-07T02:23:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Rainbow Animals,&quot; the world's first exhibition on animal homosexuality, will be opening at the Swedish Museum of Natural History on Nov. 8.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Discoverers of Nunavut fish fossil hope to net more]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/18284/1/" /><id>18284</id><summary><![CDATA[Discoverers of Nunavut fish fossil hope to net more]]></summary><issued>2007-04-28T08:46:10+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-28T08:46:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[American scientists who announced one of the most significant fossil finds in the Arctic have set their sights on the North again, in hopes of finding more discoveries that could further bridge the gap between fish and land animal.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Ancient diamonds unlock secrets of early Earth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32763/1/" /><id>32763</id><summary><![CDATA[ Ancient diamonds unlock secrets of early Earth]]></summary><issued>2007-08-22T22:38:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-22T22:38:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Diamonds more than 4 billion years old -- nearly as old as the Earth itself -- have been discovered in Western Australia, giving scientists vital clues about the early history of our planet.]]></content></entry></feed>