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Did asteroid cause the ?Great Dying??
Nov. 20 ? A longstanding mystery over what caused five great mass extinctions, including one that destroyed the dinosaurs, has grown with the publication of two studies in Friday?s issue of the journal Science. In one study, researchers make the bold claim that an asteroid is responsible for the death of most life on Earth in a catastrophic extinction 251 million years ago. Other scientists are not ready to accept the claim. COMPLETE STORY

Look What They Found at Loch Ness
It's not THE Loch Ness monster, but it IS a monster of sorts. Gerald McSorley, 67, was taking a stroll around Scotland's Loch Ness when he found dinosaur fossils in the shallow waters of the loch's banks. He immediately turned them over to the National Museum of Scotland, which determined they are 150 million years old. This is an extremely rare find in Scotland. In a nod to the age-old legend that a serpent-type monster lives in the deep, murky waters of Loch Ness, scientists assured the public that the four perfectly preserved vertebrae were from the Jurassic era, far too old to be Nessie since Loch Ness was only formed 10,000 years ago.

Nov. 20, 2003 / 9 p.m. ET
Space birthday: We can?t let this day pass without wishing a happy fifth birthday to the international space station. The station?s birth weight was roughly 20 tons on Nov. 20, 1998, when the Zarya cargo module was blasted into orbit from Kazakhstan, and now it?s grown almost 10 times as big. This has been a tough year for the project, due to the Columbia tragedy and its fallout, but it also served as the site of the first space wedding. Flash Tour of Station

Can Aliens Find Us?
It?s a legend about as popular, and generally believed, as the reputed presence of alligators in the sewers of New York; namely, that the only human-made edifice that astronauts can see from space is the Great Wall of China. Well, forget it. The Great Wall is about 15 feet wide, which even from as little as 200 miles up (Shuttle cruising altitude) subtends an angle of only about one-twentieth of a minute of arc. The human eye can see detail down to one minute of arc, which is obviously far too poor for Wall watching.COMPLETE STORY

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