I don’t think it’s any secret that I love ships and all things ship related. The bigger they are, the better they are and it looks as though “better” is about to be redefined. Allseas’ Pieter Schelte is now in the running for the world’s largest ship. Though shorter than the Maersk Triple-E class container ships, the Pieter Schelte is significantly wider and has a considerably larger displacement than the Triple E class. The ship is designed for laying underwater pipelines as well as moving mobile drilling platforms.
The ship is capable of lifting a 48,000 ton load.
From the biggest to the oldest, scientists have been working to retrieve the oldest known homo sapien DNA ever found, over 45,000 years old. The DNA shows small amounts of Neanderthal DNA, further confirming the cross breeding between the two species. The discovery also provides insights as to when man began to push out from Eurasia and spread over the rest of the planet. Scientists believe this began around 60,000 years ago, when intermingling of the two species first began appearing in the fossil record.
Around 2% of the world’s non-African population has some Neanderthal DNA.
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