Muslims clash with police after burning poppy in anti-Armistice Day protest

[The Telegraph, UK]  Muslims clashed with police after burning a large poppy in protest at Britain's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which was timed to coincide with Armistice Day's two-minute silence.  More...

Eggs with the oldest known embryos of a dinosaur found

[BBC]   Palaeontologists have identified the oldest known dinosaur embryos, belonging to a species that lived some 190 million years ago.  More...

Mammoths, Giant Sloths and an Ice Age Deer Unearthed

[ABC News]  Since October 14, when a bulldozer operator helping to dig a new water reservoir stumbled across bones from an ancient Columbian mammoth, researchers have unearthed what they call one of the most significant fossil discoveries in Colorado history.  More...

Mayans converted wetlands to farmland

[Nature]   The ancient Maya civilization is widely recognized for its awe-inspiring pyramids, sophisticated mathematics and advanced written language. But research is revealing that the complexity of Maya agricultural systems is likely to have rivalled that of their architecture and intellect.  More...

Newly Published Memoir Recalls Horror of Western Front

[Spiegel]    One of the most graphic accounts of World War I, the diary of German author Ernst Jünger, has been published for the first time. Its dispassionate description of life and death on the Western Front is a cold indictment of war -- even though Jünger embraced the conflict throughout as a glorious test of manhood.  More...