For the first time in nearly 500 years, a full-size balsa-wood raft just like those used in pre-Columbian Pacific trade took to the water on Sunday, May 10. Only this time, instead of the Pacific ...
Scientists think gigantic crinoids would cling to logs with anchor-like stems, creating a floating raft that likely supported a host of other species and enabled their long-distance transport across ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and carried tradegoods for thousands of miles all the way from ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas. The details of ...
Nearly all of the 162 land-breeding frog species on Caribbean islands, including the coqui frogs of Puerto Rico, originated from a single frog species that rafted on a sea voyage from South America ...
OXFORD, England, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Rafts of pumice, volcanic rock that can float, could have been cradles of life on ancient Earth, some British and Australian scientists suggest. The environments and ...