Gold hoard found in French cellar

[BBC] A French couple have found a hoard of gold coins worth at least $140,000 in the cellar of their home. They were working on their drains when they dug up the 34 coins in a little clay pot, French media said. The coins date from 1595 to the French Revolution said a local coin expert.  More...

Ancestry of Polar Bears Traced to Ireland

[ScienceDaily] — An international team of scientists has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of present-day Britain and Ireland just prior to the peak of the last ice age -- 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. More...

Was it really a meteor that killed the dinosaurs?

[ScienceDaily]— A team of scientists has discovered the youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides further evidence as to whether the impact was in fact the cause of their extinction. More...