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Dinosaur Unearthed in Wales

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic deposits of Pant-y-ffynnon in southern Wales. Life reconstruction of Pendraig milnerae among the fissures of Pant-y-ffynnon and three individuals of the rhynchocephalian lepidosaur Clevosaurus cambrica during the Late Triassic epoch. Image credit: James Robbins. …

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Jordan Valley City

Archaeologists have found evidence that in 1650 BCE (Middle Bronze Age), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, an ancient walled city in the Jordan Valley close to the north end of the Dead Sea. An eyewitness description of this catastrophic event — which was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska …

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Tyrannosaur Hatchlings

An international team of paleontologists has examined the fossilized remains of baby tyrannosaurid dinosaurs found in Alberta, Canada, and Montana, the United States. An artist’s impression of a juvenile tyrannosaur. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi. Tyrannosaurids were the apex predators of the supercontinent Laurasia in the Late Cretaceous epoch, and were …

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Almahata Sitta

The parent body of the Almahata Sitta meteorites — space rocks that rained down on the Nubian Desert in Sudan in 2008 — is a 640 to 1,800 km-wide water-rich asteroid that is as yet unknown, according to new research. Hamilton et al. studied the composition of Almahata Sitta 202 …

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Planet Wandering the Galaxy

  Astronomers have identified more than 4,000 exoplanets orbiting other stars but just a few “rogue planets” wandering the galaxy without a star to call home. A new study claims to have spotted one of these worlds, and it may be a small, rocky world like Earth. If confirmed, the …

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Mouse-sized art appears on Swedish street

Image copyright Anonymouse Image caption Anonymouse’s work has tiny details only visible close-up, including a sign saying which credit cards the restaurant accepts A miniature street scene has been created at pavement level in a Swedish city, apparently to cater to the local mouse population. The scene is built into …

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