Hillbilly Report

Doomsday Clock Moved Closer To Midnight

Hillbilly Report
Jan. 18, 2007
The world is nudging closer to nuclear or environmental apocalypse, a group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday as it pushed the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to midnight.
     The clock, which was set two minutes forward to 11:55, represents the likelihood of a global cataclysm. Its ticks have given the clock’s keepers a chance to speak out on the dangers they see threatening Earth. Read more.

Wise men testify to dragon's virgin birth

Mark Henderson, Science Editor
# Female Komodo doesn't need a mate
# Scientists say it is truly immaculate
A clutch of four Komodo dragons that hatched at London Zoo this year were all the result of virgin births, according to research that could help scientific efforts to protect the world’s largest lizards.
Genetic tests conducted at the University of Liverpool have proved that all four born to a female called Sungai were conceived by parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction that is known to take place in lizards but never documented in this species before