Shake Your Pixels

There was a giant space rock about 9 miles wide.  In an explosion one billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima, the asteroid smashed into Mexico.  In a matter of days, more than half of the species on earth were wiped out including the dinosaurs. This happened around 65 million years ago.

Read the original article here:   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100304142242.htm

According to scientists at Uppsala University,  female animals do not select a sexual partner based on passing along good genes to her young.  Instead the winning theory seems to be that the females benefit themselves.  So what does benefit comes of this?  Maybe the animal kingdom is deeper than previously thought.  Not so much noble beasts as choosy females.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091022141404.htm