Daily Archives: July 24, 2014

Lax security, slipshod collection spark fear of evidence contamination at Ukraine crash site

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commuter busHRABOVE, Ukraine – When international monitors and Malaysian aviation experts arrived Tuesday at the two main sites where the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 smashed into the undulating countryside of eastern Ukraine, there was almost no perimeter tape.

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Posted in Mass Disaster, Missing Persons

Wyoming cave with thousands of fossils to be re-opened to scientists for first time since 1970s

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Natural Trap CaveCHEYENNE, Wyo. – For the first time in more than 30 years, paleontologists are about to revisit one of North America’s most remarkable troves of late Pleistocene fossils: The bones of tens of thousands of animals piled at least 30 feet deep at the bottom of a sinkhole-type cave.

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Posted in Ancient DNA