Archaeology

   A group of archaeologists, led by Al Fastier, all members of society for the preservation of the historical heritage of the New Zealand Antarctic, they discover boxes of Scottish malt whiskey from a special harvest in a century buried under the ice in Antarctica.

Whiskey bottles, brand McKinlay & Co, were discovered earlier this year at the ice camp Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton had to leave in 1909 after failing in his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.

The explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) could not drink eleven bottles of malt whiskey that had been on his way to the South Pole in 1907.

The had to let abandoned in 1909 in a log cabin built hidden under a box in Antarctica, they were wrapped in paper and straw to protect them.

The failure of the expedition ship Nimrod.

   On August 7, 1907 left for the Antarctic expedition in the ship Nimrod, captained by explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton, the goal was to reach the South Pole, but never succeeded.

In 1909, when they were only 160 kilometer away, Schakleton decided to turn around, it was too risky with his decision saved the lives of his men, but lost the honor of being the first to reach the South Pole, and the feat would get in 1911 the Norwegian Roald Admundsen.

Shackleton tried twice more, in 1914 and 1921, but again failed, died in 1922 with only 556 pounds in their pockets, according to one version.

fossil Zealander

   An international group of archaeologists led by New Zealander Trevor Worthy, University of Adelaide, Alan Tennyson, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, and Mike Archer, University of New South Wales.

Find small fossilized bones, jaw and hip, belonged to a fantastic land animal, the size of a mouse, unlike any other known mammal, and were unearthed in the paleontological site of St. Bathans, in the region Otago, in the South Island of new Zealand.

   The fact that at least one land mammal ever lived there, at least 16 million years ago, has refuted the theory that the rich avian fauna of New Zealand evolved that way in the absence of competition from land mammals.

This also suggests that New Zealand was not completely submerged, as some scientists have thought, when sea level peaked some 25 to 30 million years.

The Moa caves of Mount Owen

   Researchers exploring the vast network of underground caves of the inhospitable mountainous regions of New Zealand, under Mount Owen when they found a sort of punch that seemed to have belonged to a monstrous being.

In itself, this is the leg of an ancient creature known as Moa (dinornítido) extinct more than 500 years ago but, you see, is almost in perfect condition.

   The disturbing finding, formed by a series of strange bones still attached by a layer of skin, proved to be the leg of a flightless bird known as “dinornítido” or moa, over 3,000 years old. Although extinction occurred about five centuries ago.