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Michel Brunet has found a skull that?s between 6 and 7million years old in the African nation of Chad that he?snamed Touma?. The skull is the oldest human fossil everfound, and comes from the time when humans and chimpanzeeswere just becoming separate species.

Since this is the first time a skull this old has beendiscovered, “There must have been a group of apes knockingaround between 5 and 8 million years ago for which there’s avery poor fossil record,” says anthropologist Bernard Woodof George Washington University.
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Richard Wool, of the University of Delaware, thinks chickenfeathers will make better microchips than silicon. Wool andhis colleagues at the university’s ACRES project (AffordableComposites from Renewable Sources) are trying to find newways to use natural and waste materials.
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Five thousand al-Qaeda terrorists are secretly living in theU.S., according to intelligence agencies. Small groups ofabout a half-dozen men in Seattle, Chicago, Detroit andAtlanta are under surveillance by the FBI.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says some al-Qaedaterrorists have fled to the U.S. from Afghanistan. “Theyclearly have moved some to the United States, some to Yemen,some to Saudi Arabia, a variety of states,” Rumsfeld says.He believes most of the terrorists fled to Pakistan and Iranwhile others have moved to places “all over the world.”
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Our new 2003 crop circle calendar is here! You can buy italone, as a set with our 2002 calendar, or as a threesomewith the 2001 calendar. These make wonderful gifts. We alsohave a beautiful new Crop Circle Lecture Video by popularresearcher Michael Glickman. Don?t let Hollywood feed youdisinformation about crop circles ? find out the truth fromunknowncountry.com. To see all our crop circle products,click here.

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