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The World's Oldest Termite Mounds Are 34000 Years Old, And They're Beautiful - IFLScience
Rachael Funnell
The landscape in South Africa is pockmarked by beautiful smatterings of wild flowers. They grow in this particular way because they prefer setting up camp on termite mounds which are richer in nutrie ...[Continue Reading]
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10 days ago
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Have giant humans ever existed? - Livescience.com
Patrick Pester
Humans have shared stories about giants for thousands of years, from the cyclopes of Greek mythology to the biblical Goliath. But are these just tall tales, or have giant humans really walked this Ea ...[Continue Reading]
Live Science
1 day ago
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Family whose home was hit by space debris seeks damages from NASA - The Washington Post
Rachel Pannett
A family is seeking compensation from NASA after a piece of metal trash from the International Space Station tore through the roof of their home in Naples, Fla. in March. No one was hurt, but a lega ...[Continue Reading]
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1 day ago
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Century-Old Fossil Mystery Solved: Scientists Discover True Identity of Ancient Sea-Lizard - SciTechDaily
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Researchers identified a prehistoric marine reptile found in 1935 as a thalattosaur, not a choristodere, using CT scans and a new specimen. Reconstruction of Pachystropheus rhaeticus, figured alongsi ...[Continue Reading]
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1 day ago
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Is Jupiter's Great Red Spot an impostor? Giant storm may not be the original one discovered 350 years ago - Livescience.com
Stefanie Waldek
In 1665, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini observed a giant dark spot on Jupiter, which he called the "Permanent Spot." (English scientist Robert Hooke might've discovered it a year earlier, in 166 ...[Continue Reading]
Space.com
1 day ago
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Cosmic Shrapnel That Killed The Mammoth Is Buried Deep, Scientists Claim - ScienceAlert
Michelle Starr
For hundreds of thousands of years, the wooly mammoth thrived on Earth, measuring its stately tread across the frozen reaches. Then, something happened. Earth changed. And in a remarkably short time ...[Continue Reading]
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1 day ago