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More than 200 million years ago, mammals and reptiles lived in their own separate worlds on the supercontinent Pangaea, despite little geographical incentive to do so. Mammals lived in areas of twice-yearly seasonal rainfall; reptiles stayed in areas where rains came just once a year. Mammals lose more water when they excrete, and thus need water-rich environments to survive. Results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Aggregating nearly the entire landmass of...
CALGARY, Alberta, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crescent Point Energy Corp. ("Crescent Point" or the "Company") plans to report its first quarter 2011 financial and operating results via news release on Thursday, May 12, 2011, at approximately 7 a.m. MT (9 a.m. ET). Crescent Point management will host a conference call the same day at 10 a.m. MT (12 p.m. ET) to discuss the results and outlook for the Company. Participants can access the conference call by dialing...
TORONTO, April 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG; NYSE: MGA) is holding its Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at the Hilton Suites Toronto/Markham Conference Centre, 8500 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Canada commencing at 10:00 a.m. EDT (Toronto time). The meeting will be webcast live and can be accessed at www.magna.com. Magna will also announce its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011 on the morning of the...
HACKENSACK, New Jersey, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ness Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTC and TASE: NSTC), a global provider of information technology solutions and services, announced today that the company will release financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011 before the start of trading in New York on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. The financial results will be released over the news wires and will also be posted on the Ness corporate web site. Sachi...
HUERTH and COLOGNE, Germany, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The development of WorldHostingDays, the world's largest hosting event, remains favorable. Already under the old name WebhostingDay, more than 3,500 registrations could be achieved in 2010. Now this record has been broken again: on March 2, 2011 the 4,000th registration was made. WorldHostingDays (WHD) take place March 22-25 at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. The organizers have chosen a new event location for the first...
TORONTO, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG) (NYSE: MGA) will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010 on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Magna will hold its quarterly conference call on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. The previous notice of conference call, issued earlier this week, indicated that the call would be Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. However, due to a conflict...
Human influence on the landscape, global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification and biodiversity are highlighted in a new set of studies led by University of Leicester researchers.How this influence will be reflected in the distinctive geological record forms the basis of the studies published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams from the University of Leicester Department of Geology led the production of the studies into the...
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -Dynamic Ventures Corporation (OTCBB: DYNV) is pleased to announce Bundled Builder Solutions financial results. Results of Operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2009 Contract Revenue increased 19% to $2,653,487 during the nine months ending on September 30, 2010, compared to contract revenues during the same period in 2009. Total operating expenses decreased 47% for the...
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ - The fully lit CP Holiday Train will enter Metropolitan Chicago from the North, on tracks running about one mile east of Interstates 94 and 294. The fully lit train is over 1,000 feet long and very impressive from a helicopter or overpass angle. Tuesday, December 7 Locations/ Times (approximate), heading south towards O'Hare Airport: Gurnee - 04:55 AM Deerfield - 05:10 AM Northbrook - 05:15 AM Des Plaines (passing under I294) - 05:30 AM Eastside...
TORONTO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ - Points International Ltd. (TSX: PTS; OTCBB: PTSEF), the world's leading loyalty reward solutions provider and owner of the Points.com portal, today announced that CEO, Rob MacLean and CFO, Anthony Lam, will be presenting to the investment community at the 3rd annual LD MICRO Conference on Thursday, December 9th, at 1:00 P.M. PST / 4:00 PM EST at the Luxe Sunset in Los Angeles. During the conference, management will be available to meet with investors...
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Image Caption: Head of Tenontosaurus, Institut de paléontologie humaine, Paris, France. Credit: Rémih/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) Tenontosaurus, meaning “sinew lizard”, is a genus of medium to large sized ornithopod dinosaur. The genus is known from the late Aptian to Albian ages of the middle Cretaceious period sediments of western North America, dating roughly between 115 to 108 million years ago. It was formerly thought to be a ‘hypsilophodont’, but since Hypsilophodontia is no...
The Neoproterozoic is the third of three subdivisions of the Proterozoic Eon (occurring from 1 billion years ago to 542 million years ago). This terminal era of the Proterozoic is itself divided into three sub-periods called the Tonian, Cryogenian, and Ediacaran Periods. The most severe glaciation known in the geologic record occurred during the Cryogenian Period, when ice sheets reached the equator and formed a possible “Snowball Earth.” And the earliest fossils of multi-cellular life...
The Paleoproterozoic is the first of three subdivisions of the Proterozoic Eon (occurring from 2.5 billion to 1.6 billion years ago (Ga). This period is marked by the first stabilization of the continents, and also when cyanobacteria--a type of bacteria that uses biochemical processes of photosynthesis to produce oxygen--evolved. Experts have found paleontological evidence that during at least part of the Paleoproterozoic era, about 1.8 Ga, the earth year was about 450 days long, with days...
The Archean (formerly Archaeozoic) is a geologic eon between the Hadean and Proterozoic eons. The Archean Eon begins at roughly 3.8 billion years ago (Ga) and ends at about 2.5 Ga. But unlike all other geological ages, which are based on stratigraphy, The Archean eon is defined chronometrically. The lower boundary of 3.8 Ga has also not been officially recognized by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. The name Archean is derived from the ancient Greek (Arkhe), meaning...
The Hadean is the unofficial geological period of time that lies just before the Archean time period. The Hadean began with the formation of the Earth roughly 4.5 billion years ago (Ga) and ended about 3.8 Ga; the latter date varies according to different sources. Hadean is derived from Hades, Greek for “underworld,” referring to the hellish conditions on the planet at the time. The term was coined in 1972 by geologist Preston Cloud. The period was later classified as the “Priscoan...
