Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and carried trade goods for thousands of miles all the way from modern-day Chile to ...
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 ...
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 ...
University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William ...
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 ...