Saturday, October 6, 2012

Simply amazing!

This is an amazing story, and there was even an odour... coming from the 30,000-year-old frozen mammoth!


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I wonder if anyone else finds this fact amazing too... that the water we drink may have also been drunk by dinosaurs and mammoths.

This question below has been tossed about, especially at school quizzes and at talks to schools on water as a resource (such as those I was once involved in):

Drinking Water that Dinosaurs Drank?
I was taught when I was young that we drink the same water today that the dinosaurs drank when they were alive, is that true? Skye, Arkensaw

Here's the answer, from Professor Ken Carslaw, Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, writing in the "Naked Scientist" website:


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More water facts and trivia...




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