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Dimetrodon (meaning "two measures of teeth") was a predatory synapsid genus that flourished during the Permian period, living between 280-265 million years ago (Artinskian to Capitanian stages). It was more closely related to mammals than to true reptiles such as lizards. It is clas...
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Kuphus polythalamia
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Live, long and black giant shipworm found in Philippines Scientists have found live specimens of the rare giant shipworm for the first time, in the Philippines. Details of the creature, which can reach up to 1.55m in length and 6cm in diameter, were published in a US science journal. The giant shipwo...
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Operation Big Bang
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Britain's 'big bang' in Heligoland, 70 years on when in 1947 the British needed a safe place to dispose of thousands of tonnes of unexploded ammunition, Heligoland must have seemed an obvious choice. The code-name for the plan combined the British flair for understatement with the military taste f...
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Ullamaliztli
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Mexico revives 3,000-year-old ancient ball game The finals of a revived 3,000-year-old ball game have been played in the Mexican city of Teotihuacan Organisers have been trying to bring back the game, known as Ullamaliztli in Mexico, because of its ancient cultural and religious significance. T...
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Ancient Fish
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The coelacanth is no longer the only living fossil fish swimming in our oceans. A Wits University PhD student has discovered that the parasitic lamprey, a fish which sucks the blood of other fish, is also a living fossil.
After years of painstaking work, Robert Gess has uncovered a world first: a 36...
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Ivory
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Ivory inferno: Does burning tusks destroy them? This year Kenya, Ethiopia and Mozambique have all set fire to stockpiles of ivory to help tackle its illegal trade and curb elephant poaching. The practice goes back to July 1989 when Kenya's then-President Daniel arap Moi ignited a pile of 12 tonnes o...
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Teleocrater rhadinus
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Reptile fossils hint at wide diversity of dinosaur ancestors Fossils of a four-legged, meat-eating reptile are helping paint a more complicated picture of the ancestry of dinosaurs than scientists had understood. The creature was not a direct ancestor, but was more like a cousin. It lived about 2...
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Westlothiana
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Fossils 'solve' missing evolutionary link mystery Scottish fossils that appear to solve the mystery of how vertebrate life came to move from water to land will go on display in an exhibition in Edinburgh. The fossils were found in the Borders and date from a missing period in geological history betw...
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Yuanwang 7
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Yuanwang 7 space tracking ship will track October spaceflight When the Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft starts its journey next month to meet the Tiangong II space lab, it will be tracked by China's latest space monitor and communications system aboard a new tracking ship. Read more
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Life was always hard for the lead miners who toiled on the uplands of Mendip, but probably never more so than when the Romans were their masters. We do not know the system by which the Romans worked the chief mining area at Charterhouse, but we can be certain that there were no union agreements on pay and h...
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Archaeology
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Genialinius Gennatus was one fine duck hunter. In the third century , he recorded his prowess in high Latin on a stone tablet that he dedicated to Jupiter. That and a hefty donation probably ensured that the tablet won display in the temple to the Roman god in the settlement then called Colonia. Five or...
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"Doggerland" is the now-drowned lands in the coastal plain that was formed in the North Sea when sea level dropped during the most recent glacial maximum.
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Xiling gold mine
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Large gold mine with 550-ton reserve found in E China A world-class gold mine with estimated reserves of 550 tons has been founded in eastern China's Shandong Province. The newly-found gold deposit named Xiling is located in the Laizhou-Zhaoyuan region, said Shandong Gold Group Tuesday, adding t...
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Artists and scientists, and some who are both, join in the debate in the latest issue of The Biochemist.
Once upon a time, a very long time ago, and long before they were around, neither art nor science mattered so much as where the next meal came from. But around 30,000 years ago, early humans sudde...
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Azure Window rock arch
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Malta's Azure Window collapses into the sea Malta's famous Azure Window rock arch has collapsed into the sea after heavy storms. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the news was "heartbreaking". A study in 2013 said that while erosion was inevitable, the structure was not in imminent danger of colla...
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