Giant mat of bacteria found off chilean coast

Off the coast of the atacama desert lies a giant mat of hairlike bacteria,the size of greece.

Resembling fossilized bacterial mats,that go back 2.5 million years,the bacteria lives in water almost oxygen-free,extracting energy from hydrogen  sulphide and feeds on nutrients in the water.

It is estimated that the mat contains hundreds of millions of tonnes of bacteria.

some bacteria are 7 centimetres long.

Trials of `porcine sushi' for type1 diabetes to start soon.

The `pig sushi'  implants known as diabecell,comprises of high doses of living pig  islet cells encoated in alginate,a compound found in seaweed.

This will be tested on 4 people in new  zealand soon.

Hominids were on flores almost a million years ago

Argon dating of a site called wolo sege suggests hominids were on flores almost a million years ago.

Location of flood that triggered younger dryas found

Research suggests the flood originated  from lake agassiz going via present  day site of fort mcmurray  to the mckenzie river delta.

OSL dating of  erosion surface and gravel deposits on richards island  in the mackenzie  delta suggests that there was a large flood, approxiatetly(sp?)11-13,000 years ago.

Fossil child hominid skeleton found in south africa

A almost complete skeleton of a child has been discovered in sterkfontein cave,also known as the cradle of humankind,because of the number of  hominid fossils discovered there.

The fossil is about 2 million years old and may be intermediate between australopithicus and homo habilis.

Not sure if connected, but it is reported that a fossilized adult female has been found in malapa cave