Environmental officials recently opened four “green” spaces on Dean Street near the Gowanus Canal in an effort to absorb water during heavy rainstorms. The rainwater usually results in the sewer systems overflowing into the waterway. The $16,000 drainage ditches, located in Park Slope near Fourth Avenue, are filled with mulch and shrubs capable of absorbing…
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60-Foot Replica Stars at New Dino Exhibit
The American Museum of Natural History staff has been working for over two years on its newest exhibit entitled “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs.” The star of the exhibit is a Mamenchisaurus, a life-size replica of a female sauropods created by more than one hundred people. The figure is eleven feet tall and sixty feet long,…
“Ice Age Animals of New York”
The curator of vertebrate paleontology at the New York State Museum in Albany, Dr. Robert Feranec, is to present “Ice Age Animals of New York” in the Carnahan Theater in Jamestown Community College later this week. Throughout the presentation, Feranec will introduce the audience to some of the most famous as well as unknown species…
Bronx Zoo Welcomes Six Cubs
The Bronx Zoo recently welcomed six new additions to Tiger Mountain- three Amur and three Malayan tiger cubs. The Malayan cubs are the zoo’s first litter of their kind, while the Amur cubs are the first to be born at the zoo in over thirteen years. Zoo visitors have the unique opportunity to compare the…
Tuesday’s Total lunar Eclipse
Early this past Tuesday morning, while most of the residents of New York slept soundly, the moon was completely covered by Earth’s shadow. The whole process took around three and a half hours. The moon was hidden for 72 minutes. The phenomenon was clearly visible only in certain areas of the North and Central America….
Rare Astronomical Coincidence Set for Tuesday
In a coinciding of events that hasn’t been seen in 456 years, there will be a lunar eclipse occurring on the very same day as the winter solstice this year, on Tuesday. The winter solstice, which occurs every year on December 21st, is the shortest day of the year, meaning that on that day there…
New York Bees Partial to Maraschino Cherries
Bee keepers from Red Hook, Brooklyn, were mystified by the syrupy red substance found in their hives in the place of regular honey. They discovered, after testing the stuff, that it contained a high level of number 40 red dye, which is commonly found in the juice of maraschino cherries. The bee enthusiasts now assume…
Queens Zoo Welcomes Six New Endangered Parrot Chicks
Six parrot chicks were recently born in the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Queens Zoo in New York City. These babies are part of a critically endangered species, the thick- billed parrots. These red and green parrots are natives of Mexico, but have been extinct there since the middle of the twentieth century. Its population was destroyed…
Orphaned Sea Otter Lives Happily in the Big Apple
In June, an orphaned sea otter pup was found dehydrated in the Alaskan wild. The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Coney Island Aquarium was chosen to nurse the pup back to health, as they have been successful with sea otters in the past. Nicole Pisciotta, an animal keeper from the New York Aquarium, was appointed surrogate mom…
King Tut Treasures to be Returned to Egypt
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has agreed to return nineteen relics to Egypt to be added to the King Tutankhamun collection in the new Grand Egyptian Museum. These artifacts were taken from the boy-pharaoh’s tomb in the early 1900s. The artifacts include small figurines and jewelry such as a miniature dog…
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