Have you ever seen pictures of the Amazon rainforest? It’s mostly flat, but in the wildest, most remote parts of the Amazon near the Peruvian border, there’s a mountain that rises half a kilometer above the flat forest. This mountain, known as Cerro El Cono, is believed to be the peak of an extinct volcano….
Eight-year-old Brazilian girl Nicole Olive is set to become the world’s youngest astronomer. Searching for asteroids as part of a program associated with NASA, she attends international seminars and meets with top Brazilian scientists. Oliveira’s room is filled with solar systems, miniature rockets, and images of the sky on two large screens on her computer…
New research shows that the 115-million-year-old fossil found during a police raid in Santos Harbor, in the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil in 2013, is a well-preserved, about 90% complete petrosor / big-headed pterosaurs. Studies indicate that they belonged to the group of toothless reptiles / tapejaridae that lived 144 and 100 million years…
