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  Weekend coastal storm to impact millions along East Coast with heavy rain, snow The FOX Forecast Center is tracking an area of low pressure forecast to develop this weekend over parts of the East Coast, bringing a round of snow and rain to the region.Heavy rain is likely near the Southeast coast, with upward of 5 inches possible across parts of the Carolinas and Georgia between Friday and Sunday."We're going to slowly start to see the precipitation increase," FOX Weather meteorologist Jason Frazer said. "For those of you right along the I-95 corridor, for places like Virginia, as well as even our nation's capital (and) Baltimore, could end up seeing some rain by Sunday." For those headed to Arizona for the Super Bowl, there could be some significant elopement package  issues at some airports in the eastern half of the country. Severe weather and heavy snow could affect travel for those coming from the East Coast. The weather is looking much quieter in the ...

  Based on sedimentation rates and the number of individual elephants,  the team estimated that an elephant was killed roughly every five to six years at the site. “A fully grown male straight-tusk elephant would have provided quite a big pile of meat, about four tons, and it seems likely that the hunters would not have gone to all that trouble just to let most of it rot,” Dr. Roebroeks  said. He and the team contend that the Neanderthals of Neumark-Nord either stayed put for months, as opposed to days, or that groups gathered at intervals to dig traps and feast together, which raises the possibility of a broad social, cultural and genetic exchange . Straight-tusked elephants went extinct at least 30,000 years ago; many factors were probably to blame, Dr. Roebroeks said, including predation, climate change, reduction in food availability and competition from woolly mammoths moving into their territory. Neanderthals had already disappeared by then, pushed aside as Homo sap...