Sunday 26 December 2010

science related travel and places,Yunnan,china

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A hillside in Luoping County is the location where scientists have discovered over 20,000 fossils of life that came into existance after the Permian era extinction that saw most land and sea species lost in what  is called `the great dying'.
Fossils include ammonites,plankton,ichtysaurs and saurichthyses etc

Over in Chengjiang county,there are also fossils bed from  the cambrian era.
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Saturday 30 October 2010

science related travel and places,canterbury region,new zealand

There is the St John Observatory near lake tekapo,where the stars can be oberved.

Science related travel and places,Coquimbo region,chile

The European Extremely Large Telescope,the world's largest telescopes, is located in the cerro armazones area.

Sunday 17 October 2010

Sunday 26 September 2010

science related travel and places,hardap region,namibia

Sossusvlei desert lodge
offers  stargazing with an astronomer as well as nature spotting,from £245

Saturday 14 August 2010

northumberland and tyne and wear,england,uk

centre for life,newcastle
human life exhibition,planetarium show and solar coaster

















Kielder observatory
Search Amazon.com for Kielder northumberland
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Monday 28 June 2010

Science related travel and places,afar region,ethiopia

Search Amazon.com for ethiopia fossils

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Many hominid fossils have been found at places like herto,bodo(Cranium),amba east,Dikika(fossilized  animal bones found here show evidence of having been butchered about 3.4 million years ago)  and maka.
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Tuesday 6 April 2010

science related travel and places,east nusa tenggara province,indonesia

boa lesa

Liang bua cave,flores
here is where the famous homo floriensis fossil was discovered.

Mata menge
contains stegodon fossils as well as stone artefacts

tangi talo

wolo sege
stone artefacts

Sunday 4 April 2010

science related travel and places,gauteng province,south africa

malapa cave complex
recently found fossilized child and adult female found.

Sterkfontein cave(also known as the cradle of humankind)
This is where a 3.3   million years old australopithecus fossil was discovered in1994.
Recently a fossilized 2 million year old child was found.

http://www.palaeotours.com/
tours of cradle of humankind area

Thursday 25 March 2010

science related travel and places,altai krai,russia

Denisova cave,is where russian scientists have been  looking for ancient bones.
Ancient DNA has been recovered from a finger bone fragment.

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Insight cruises

http://www.insightcruises.com/ does cruises which have lectures on scientific subjects.

Tuesday 2 February 2010

science related travel and places,wiltshire,england,uk

Dinton quarry
This  quarry was the source of most late jurassic fossil insects described by peter bellinger brodie in 1845(History of the fossil insects of the secondary rocks of england?)

Science museum ,wroughton