"It turns into something like cottage cheese in a short time." That may be why earlier attempts to replicate the ancient rafts had failed, Dewan said. After construction, those replicas were ...

For the first time in nearly 500 years, a full-size balsa-wood raft just like those used in pre-Columbian Pacific trade took to the water on Sunday ... of the ancient sailing craft, built from ...

Scientists think gigantic crinoids would cling to logs with anchor-like stems, creating a floating raft that likely supported a host of other species and enabled their long-distance transport ...

A father and son team have re-enacted an ancient ... of know what rafts are about a little bit. A raft is a raft really," Bob said. "We experimented and we sat on it in the water with three ...

It's still sometimes used in Iran and Iraq today, a type of round coracle which they would have known exactly how to use to transport animals ... British exhibition on ancient Babylon, believes ...

"Both theories acknowledged that the frog faunas must have arrived by rafting over water to the smaller and ... it may not be coincidental that these ancient and successful dispersals happened ...