Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish ship Trouvadore off the British-ruled islands, where the slave trade was banned.

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It seems that tiny pieces of the puzzle that represents evolution are gathered each day. And evolution is not as simple as presented in the game “Spore”.
We all know that sea animals existed first, and then they grew legs and evolved to survive on land, but how this step in evolution was made.
Scientists used a [...]

Scientists know that Earth’s magnetic field reversed it’s direction hundreds of times before, but so far they did not know why. But a recent study made on ancient lava flows may give us a better understanding of what happens and why.
First of all, what is the Earth’s magnetic field?
Earth’s magnetic field (and the surface magnetic [...]