And in other news

[den]

One of the 1400 babies born in Australia today will be the 20 millionth Aussie. ABC 70% of us live in the Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane arc.

Fossils of a new sauropod have been discovered in Queensland. ABC

Mouse genome now in hardback.

An Iron Age chariot from about 500 BC has been discovered by engineers working on the new A1 motorway in West Yorkshire. BBC

An arc of buried megaliths that once formed part of the great stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire has been discovered. BBC

Comments

[makovette.livejournal.com]

20M people in OZ? That's about half as many as were on the 101 this evening at 5:20 ;-P

Very intersting historical snippets too, tnx!

Mako
One of 260M Zzyzxians

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to hearing more about the sauropod and the chariot. Regarding the former...is it my imagination, or have there been an increasing number of paleontological finds in Australia over the past five years?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

What has happened is that paleofolks have suddenly realized that Australia has fossils, and they're easy to get to.*




*For "no one will kill you for your equipment" values of easy.

[chezmax]

That's kinda like Canada. (though we've got like 35 million). Most of us love in the Golden Horseshoe (Toronto and area wrapping around lake Ontario) to Montreal Corridor.... S'quite insane. :)

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Neat! -TG