Daily Archives: May 10, 2009

Soft tissue preserved in 80-million-year-old dino fossil

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Molecular paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University in Raleigh and colleagues presented evidence in Science that they had successfully recovered and identified collagen, a type of protein, from the femur of an 80-million-year-old hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur. read … Continue reading →

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Is India failing to win hearts and minds in Kashmir?

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Found this thought provoking story on Reuters. Is India pushing the ordinary Kashmiri people further away by enforcing regular curfews, putting most of their separatist leaders under house arrest and denying them religious freedom by banning Friday prayers in Kashmir’s … Continue reading →