Day: March 6, 2011

There has been a discovery of a shipwrecked whaling vessel in the waters of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, 600 miles north of Honolulu. Did the whale really trap Moby Dick? The name of the vessel was the Two Brothers, from Nantucket. The ship slammed against a shallow reef and was sunk on February 11, 1823.

On the border between Mongolia and China there has been a discovery of a new species of dinosaur. Found near the city of Linhe, the new discovery was given the name Linhenykus monodactylus. This dinosaur belongs in the carnivorous group of Theropoda which also include the Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor. What the Linhenykus monodactylus may have