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Wednesday 19 November 2008
Kangaroo genes close to humans
Department of Defence property in Belconnen, Canberra, in this May 17, 2008 …
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia's kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China, Australian researchers said Tuesday.
Scientists said they had for the first time mapped the genetic code of the Australian marsupials and found much of it was similar to the genome for humans, the government-backed Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics said.
"There are a few differences, we have a few more of this, a few less of that, but they are the same genes and a lot of them are in the same order," centre Director Jenny Graves told reporters in Melbourne.
"We thought they'd be completely scrambled, but they're not. There is great chunks of the human genome which is sitting right there in the kangaroo genome," Graves said, according to AAP.
Humans and kangaroos last shared an ancestor at least 150 million years ago, the researchers found, while mice and humans diverged from one another only 70 million years ago.
Kangaroos first evolved in China, but migrated across the Americas to Australia and Antarctica, they said.
"Kangaroos are hugely informative about what we were like 150 million years ago," Graves said.
(Reporting by Rob Taylor; Editing by David Fox)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081118/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_kangaroos;_ylt=Ambrf7T9apyAkOW6DteQgWHtiBIF
Tuesday 11 November 2008
Tasmanian horror movie 'factual truth'
A new film about cannibals in Tasmania, billed as one the most frightening horror movies to come out of Australia, turns out to be based on a true story.
Dying Breed — which opens in cinemas today — focuses on a group of people searching the isolated Tasmanian wilderness for the Tasmanian tiger but who then find themselves confronted by a cannibal tribe.
The film portrays the modern-day human flesh-eaters as descendents of real-life cannibal Alexander "the Pieman" Pearce, a convict who lived in the 1830s and survived by eating other people.
Director Jody Dwyer told ninemsn his audiences will feel the "building tension in their bones."
"A horror [movie] needs a point of difference and ours is factual truth. Pearce did exist and he was hanged for cannibalism," he said.
Dwyer has described Dying Breed, set on Tasmania’s Pieman River, as "primarily a thriller, peppered with horror" — although its bloody scenes are bound to draw comparisons with other Australian horror films including such as Wolf Creek or even Saw (written by local filmmakers James Wan and Leigh Whannell).
"We decided early on to return to the core elements of suspense, believable characters and a plot that evolves naturally… not a splatter fest of gore with an escalation of ever-bloodier deaths," Dwyer said.
"A species needs to eat and breed to survive. It’s the horror of cold logic. And that’s scary."
But although the film portrays part of the southern Isle as a cannibal-eating community, Dwyer said the Tasmanian tourism industry has embraced the opportunity to provide a backdrop for some of the filming.
"The locals were incredibly helpful, allowing us to take over their one means of crossing the water," he said.
Tasmanian Minister for Tourism, Michelle O’Byrne said the production was sure to "highlight Tasmania’s fascinatingly rugged natural environment".
"I’m always pleased when Tasmania gets to play a lead role in a major production which allows the dramatic interpretation of our state’s history — albeit in a fictional way — to spark the curiosity of many people," she said.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=661346
Wednesday 05 November 2008
Ghosts haunt Glenys to this day
GLENYS Biggs ain't afraid of no ghosts.
That does not make her a ghostbuster, rather Ms Biggs describes herself as an interested observer and a student of spiritual goings-on.
In fact, this paramour of poltergeists wants to write a book about her experiences and those of other Bendigo residents.
She recently placed a public notice in The Advertiser and has received a few calls from people who have witnessed unexplained events in their homes.
One contributor to her collection of tales of the unexpected recalled working alone late at night on a building renovation, hearing someone coughing loudly, then being overcome with a deep sense of foreboding.
What makes this story scary, sort of, was the fact that the building was once used as a convalescent home for TB patients.
But it is Ms Biggs' own stories that should make for some interesting reading.
From the mid-60s until five years ago, Ms Biggs and her family lived in a rambling old three-level house in Reserve Street, Eaglehawk.
The house was built on the site of Bright's slaughter yard.
Life was normal until the Biggs family began to renovate the kitchen and bathroom.
"Crockery would come flying out of the cupboards," Ms Biggs said.
"It happened quite a bit, but I was never frightened."
Ms Biggs said her young daughters at the time experienced similar events, with radios, hairdryers and lights switching off.
But the most eerie of all was the sighting of a young boy holding a bucket, and a maid dressed in early 1900s garb.
"The girls would see the boy at the end of their beds," Ms Biggs said.
Although Ms Biggs never saw these apparitions herself, she has since researched the history of her former home and discovered that a little boy drowned in a disused well on the site.
Years after the first sighting, a psychic friend stayed at the home and dreamt about the boy.
"He told me the next day the boy kept asking 'where's my bucket?'"
Once the renovations stopped, so did most of the activity in the household, until Ms Biggs' husband died in 1992.
"We were all sitting around the dining table making the funeral arrangements and settled on a 1 o'clock service," she said.
"Then at 1pm that day my husband's mantel clock - which had never worked, and has never worked since - chimed.
"It chimed once that day ... and never chimed again."
If you have a tale to tell, you can contact Glenys Biggs by emailing glenysbs@vic.chariot.net.au or call 5443 9435 or 0437 101 797.
http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/ghosts-haunt-glenys-to-this-day/1350666.aspx
Sunday 02 November 2008
Cyprus officials search for mystery 'monster'
By Alethea Reynolds 28.OCT.08
Rumours are again rife that some kind of reptile or large sea creature is lurking below the water in the Kouris Dam.
Talk of the dam being occupied by a “strange creature” started to circulate three years ago, when a report was made that a crocodile had been dumped in the deep waters.
Since then, there have been countless sightings of the “creature from the depths”, with some local newspapers calling the mystery the “Cyprus Loch Ness".
One citizen was so adamant he had spotted the creature that he told a newspaper “I watched this serpent with my own two eyes, this was no mistake.”
Despite the speculation, no proof has yet been found and even the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Affairs have drawn a blank on the Kouris mystery.
An official from the ministry confirmed that they were actively searching for the creature, adding fuel to the rumours that the lake was home to some kind of serpent.
Reports suggest that officials will try and coax the beast from the murky depths by using bait such as live hens and raw meat.
In recent days rain has hampered the search effort, which is expected to resume tomorrow.
A local community leader, Savvas Sava, told a daily newspaper yesterday that if the creature is caught then it will become a tourist attraction and facilities to house it must be constructed.
http://www.famagusta-gazette.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=69&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=6085&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2350&hn=famagusta-gazette&he=.
Monday 27 October 2008
Victorian dingoes 'should listed as threatened species'
THE pure dingo is nearing threatened species status in Victoria and has been nominated for environmental protection.
A scientific advisory committee has advised that the pure dingo, as one of the only indigenous, top-order predators left in Australia, should be listed as a threatened species in Victoria.
Environment Minister Gavin Jennings said the State Government was working to protect the pure dingo while supporting appropriate control of wild dogs that threatened livestock, with extra funding of $3.4m over five years.
The dog also has a role in keeping kangaroo and wallaby numbers at "sustainable levels,'' he said.
"We need to act now, because scientific evidence suggests pure dingoes are on the brink of extinction in Victoria,'' Mr Jennings said.
"So it is appropriate we develop a management plan to protect this threatened species.
"Wild dog control programs may actually assist in conserving the pure dingo, because the greatest threat to pure dingoes is interbreeding with domestic dogs gone wild.''
The Government says the plan to manage and protect pure dingoes will be developed in consultation with landholders, dingo protection groups and the community.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24546350-29277,00.html
Wednesday 22 October 2008
Japanese team finds 'yeti footprints' in Nepal
KATHMANDU (AFP) — A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.
"The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Japan, told AFP in Kathmandu on Monday.
Takahashi was speaking after he returned with his seven-member team from their third attempt to track down the half-man-half-ape, tales of which have gripped the imaginations of Western adventurers and mountaineers for decades.
Despite spending 42 days on Dhaulagiri IV -- a 7,661-metre (25,135-foot) peak where they say they have seen traces of yetis in the past -- the team failed in their prime objective of capturing one on film.
But Takahashi said the footprints were proof enough.
"Myself and other team members have been coming to the Himalayas for years and we can recognise bear, deer, wolf and snow leopard prints and it was none of those," he said.
"We remain convinced it is real. The footprints and the stories the local tell make us sure that it is not imaginary," he added.
Photographs of the prints have been posted on the expedition's website, www.everest.co.jp/yeti2008/.
The team had set out nine motion-sensitive cameras in an area where Takahashi saw what he thought was a yeti during a previous expedition in 2003.
"It was about 200 metres away in silhouette. It was walking on two legs like a human and looked about 150 centimetres tall," said Takahashi.
Despite their lack of success this time, the team plans to continue the quest.
"We will come back as soon as we can, and we will keep coming back until we get the yeti on film," said Takahashi.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jy_sr3YAel81En5olF9V_v2PDgbg
Sunday 19 October 2008
It came from outer space
IT appeared against the early evening sky like a flare - moments later roofs rattled and verandas shook as it crashed to earth.
Immediately, the telephones of neighbours and friends within a 250-kilometre radius south of Alice Springs began ringing to discuss the meteorite that had flashed through the dusk on Friday night.
"I was outside with the children when I noticed them looking up at the sky," said Nicole Buddle from Hugh River Farms.
"I looked up and saw this white magnesium flare with smoke swirling. It was hard to see against the setting sun."
She called neighbour Ross Morton 40 kilometres away. "He said he had been feeding the cats on the veranda and felt the roof shake."
Further south, Barry Abbott was sitting outside at the Ilpurla community. "We heard a hell of a bang and looked up and saw all this blue smoke directly above us. It was a clear sky; we have no idea what it was," he said.
Sergeant Gert Johnsson at Hermannsberg police station was already aware of the situation after being alerted by locals from the remote Wallace Rockhole community who reported a bright light trailing smoke as it scorched through the night sky and a loud bang. "I am guessing it's space debris or a meteorite," Sergeant Johnsson said yesterday. "We ruled out the chance of it being a plane - they are all accounted for - and I don't know what else could be travelling through the sky at such speed."
Piecing together the sightings across the Northern Territory enabled Sergeant Johnsson to conclude the smoking flare across the sky was some type of meteorite. "It looks like it came in a westerly direction at great speed and came down sometime around 7pm," he said.
Police officers were dispatched but were unable to find a crater in the remote outback.
They are now waiting to see if the impact registered as seismic activity on recording instruments in the United States.
The meteor was spotted near where the Henbury Meteor struck 4700 years ago. That giant meteor was travelling at more than 40,000kmh when it disintegrated and hit Earth, creating 12 giant craters 145 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs.
Friday night's mysterious appearance from space was three days late for UFO theorists, who had long predicted that aliens would land on Earth on October 14, 2008.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/it-came-from-outer-space/2008/10/18/1223750399535.html
UFOs, alien abductions and Tina Turner feature in Close Encounters secret files
The 19 files, which date from 1986 and 1992, show the extensive records of strange sightings by members of the public and unexplained radar images from air traffic control.
In one instance, an Alitalia flight coming into land at London's Heathrow Airport reported a near miss with a UFO, which the pilot described as "similar to a missile - light brown or fawn - about three metres in length but without any exhaust flame".
Captain Achille Zaghetti was so concerned about a collision he shouted "Look out! Look out!" to his co-pilot who then spotted the same object.
A corresponding image appeared on the Air Traffic Control radar and the MoD was brought in to investigate.
In the files released by the National Archive, the military admitted that the sighting in April 1991 could not be explained, having ruled out a British or American missile.
It concluded: "In the absence of any clear evidence which could be used to identify the object, it is our intention to treat this sighting like that of any other Unidentified Flying Object."
Two further near misses were reported in the summer of 1991 when one aircraft flying in to Gatwick airport reported a "wingless projectile" passing the left side of the plane and another flight leaving Gatwick spotted a "small lozenge-shaped object" speeding past the cockpit.
The newly released files also go into detail about two American Air Force pilots who were scrambled in 1957 and ordered to fire upon a UFO target flying above East Anglia.
Dr Milton Torres managed to obtain a radar "lock-on" to a target which was about the size of a B52 bomber - which he could not see - and was instructed to fire with all 24 of his rockets.
Before he was able to take action, the UFO broke off from the radar lock and disappeared.
When the pilot landed at RAF Manston in Kent, he said he was debriefed by an American National Security Agency (NSA) agent who "threatened me with a national security breach if I breathed a word about it to anyone".
Included in the material are several reports of alien abductions and strange sightings.
In 1989, one man from Somerset reported seeing a flying saucer land near the Feltham bypass and two aliens, dressed in black, apparently emerged.
One alien checked the engines while a second said - in fluent English - "capture that man before tells anybody else".
Another man from Brighton spotted a brightly-lit UFO, shaped like a "squashed rugby ball", which hovered above his house.
Two men in beige uniforms were seen inside, but when they spotted the man, they turned out the lights and sped out to sea.
The RAF official who took the call noted: "Caller sounded genuine enough and his main concern seemed to be that he didn't want to talk too much about the craft if it was 'one of ours that we wanted to keep secret'."
In August 1989, reports of "two to three lights, green, red and orange oscillating" and moving "left and right and around each other" were reported to the MoD.
What the concerned callers did not realise was that they were looking at the lasers illuminating Tina Turner's latest concert.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3226737/UFOs-alien-abductions-and-Tina-Turner-feature-in-Close-Encounters-secret-files.html
Wednesday 15 October 2008
Bigfoot corpse for sale on eBay, bidding passes $200,000
The rubber bigfoot costume used earlier this year as evidence of bigfoot being found is up for auction on eBay, and bidding has passed $200,000.
The story of Bigfoot’s discovery made news headlines globally in August. Former police officer Matt Whitton and his friend, Rick Dyer, with the support of Bay Area Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi published a photo that allegedly showed Bigfoot in an icebox, complete with animal parts. The hoax didn’t stop there however, with Biscardi holding a media conference a week later, claiming that the first tests were inconclusive. The hoax was only discovered when independent testing found that the alleged body was nothing more than a Halloween costume.
The current owner of the “corpse,” William Lett, came into possession of the costume after lending Biscardi $50,000 to purchase it from the two who originally claimed to have found it.
The sale is being pitched as historic, and part proceeds from the sale will go to the Hoax Information Center.
http://www.inquisitr.com/5273/bigfoot-corpse-for-sale-on-ebay-bidding-passes-200000/
UFOs “have been here since 1947″, claims British expert
UFOs “have been here since 1947″, according to a British expert, who added that an alien crashed in the United States in the same year.
Philip Mantle, the editor of UFO Data Magazine, is unveiling his findings at an international conference this month.
He investigated the site in Roswell, New Mexico where many people believe there was an alien crash landing. He analysed rock, earth and vegetation.
The area is surrounded by charred trees and bushes and a mysterious blue substance that dribbles down rocks.
US physician Dr Ronald Rau said in the 1940s high levels of radiation pointed to a ship landing there in the 1940s.
The area in the Nogal Canyon is close to the well-known Socorro desert site where experts say another object appeared to have landed in 1964.
“A good friend of mine Ed Gerham first found the site and I flew over as soon as I could,” Telegraph quoted Mantle, as saying.
“It was a real find and as soon as I arrived there I knew what a special and peculiar place it was. There is nothing around it for around 70 miles, it is literally in the middle of nowhere.
“Us Brits really have beaten the Americans at their own game and it is really great that we have done that. It really is revolutionary for the UFO world.”
Mantle is set to reveal his full findings at the UFO Data Annual Conference in Leeds.
http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/ufos-have-been-here-since-1947-claims-british-expert-200810153252
30 years on, will the UFOs still be around?
A flight is planned later this year to mark the 30th anniversary of the sighting of unidentified flying objects in the skies above the Kaikoura coastline.
Two pilots on board an Argosy freight plane reported seeing unidentified airborne objects following them on the night of December 30, 1978.
Marlborough film-maker and owner of the original plane, Paul Davidson, is organising for a plane to follow the same flight path up and down the coast between Blenheim and Christchurch on December 30.
The 1978 pilots and crew will be on board, providing commentary. There are also seats for paying members of the public.
The original Argosy cannot fly any more, so a Dash-8 aircraft will be used. "It's a great aircraft, with great views and big windows," said Mr Davidson.
He said the two main points that added credibility to the sightings were that the pilots knew the area of the sky well, and the objects were picked up on two independent radar systems. A cameraman and reporter were also on board saw and recorded the objects.
The objects were unidentifed and definitely flying, but whether they were from another another planet was another question, Mr Davidson said.
The flight is part of Kaikoura UFO Anniversary week in Blenheim from December 28-31, which will also involve a UFO Symposium, tours of the Argosy aircraft and a movie.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4726853a6008.html
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