Friday, April 24, 2015

Dinosaur Eggs Found by Construction Workers in a Chinese City

Heyuan city in Southern China calls itself the "Home of Dinosaurs" because it holds the Guinness of World for the most dinosaur eggs.  Now they can add more to their collection.  Construction workers unearthed 43 fossilized eggs.  They were repairing the road and discovered some as wide as 5 inches. 19 of the eggs are fully intact.  Researchers have been trying to figure out what type they are.  Nearly 17,000 eggs have already been discovered.  The first eggs were found by children playing in a construction site in 1996.  Most of the eggs in their museum's collection are a type of oviarptorid and duck-billed dinosaurs.  These types of dinosaurs roamed the earth 89 million years ago.


Naomi Ng. "Dozens of Dinosaur eggs discovered by Construction workers in Chinese City." CNN. Web. 24 April 2015<http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/21/asia/china-dinosaur-eggs-found/index.html>    

Monday, April 6, 2015

Boston bombing trial: Jurors set to begin diliberations

After weeks of testimonies in the Boston bombing trial the jurors are set to begin
 deliberations Tuesday for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.  He faces life in prison or the death penalty for working with his brother to explode bombs in the Boston bomb back in 2013. "The defendant thought that his values were more important than the people around him. He wanted to awake the mujaheddin, the holy warriors, so he chose Patriots Day, Marathon Monday" said assistant US attorney Aloke Chakravarty.  Bomb survivors and victim's families were there through the whole thing comforting each other.  Chakravarty also said "He chose a day when there would be civilians on the sidewalks and he targeted those civilians: men women and children." "He wanted to terrorize this county. He wanted to punish America for what it was doing to his people."  The prosecutor showed a picture of Dzhokhar and his brother in the marathon crowd.  The day of the bombing Chakravarty said "They felt they were soldiers. They were the mujaheddin and they were bringing their battle to Boston."  

 Ann, O'Neil. "Boston bombing trial: Jurors set to begin deliberations." CNN.  Web. 6 April 2015<http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/06/us/boston-marathon-bombing-trial/index.html>