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First-Ever Giant Ichthyosaur Soft Tissue Fossil Reveals They Were “Silent Swimmers” That Ambushed Their Prey

First-Ever Giant Ichthyosaur Soft Tissue Fossil Reveals They Were “Silent Swimmers” That Ambushed Their Prey

An extraordinary fossil has blown the socks of palaeontologists as it was found to contain the soft tissues of a Temnodontosaurus ichthyosaur, marking the first time we’ve ever found soft tissue remains of a giant ichthyosaur and introducing new-to-science features that reveal how they hunted. The discovery is going to revolutionize the way we look at ichthyosaurs, so said study co-author …

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Why Jane Street, a US trading giant is in trouble in India

Why Jane Street, a US trading giant is in trouble in India

Reuters India’s market regulator has accused Jane Street of manipulating the stock market New York based trading giant Jane Street has been in the eye of a storm over the past few weeks after India’s market regulator banned it from the securities market. The regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has accused Jane Street of indulging in a …

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Scientists discover long-lost giant rivers that flowed across Antarctica up to 80 million years ago

Scientists discover long-lost giant rivers that flowed across Antarctica up to 80 million years ago

Scientists have discovered a long-lost landscape that’s been preserved beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet for 30 million years. Erosion by ancient rivers appears to have carved large, flat surfaces beneath the ice in East Antarctica between 80 million and 34 million years ago. Understanding how these features formed, and how they continue to affect the landscape, could help refine predictions …

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Impact That Made Meteor Crater May Have Triggered Giant Grand Canyon Landslide

Impact That Made Meteor Crater May Have Triggered Giant Grand Canyon Landslide

When an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater. According to new research, the earthquake that the collision caused induced a landslide, which caused water to back up to the height of a 20-storey building above the current river. Meteor Crater, also known as Barringer Crater after the family …

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Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star system

Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star system

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA Exoplanet Catalog Scientists have detected a hidden alien planet by examining the orbits of the known worlds in the star system, known as Kepler-139. The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 …

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Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids – Live Science

Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids – Live Science

Giant space ‘boulders’ unleashed by NASA’s DART mission aren’t behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids  Live Science NASA’s asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space  Space Deflecting Asteroids Isn’t Simple According to New Data from DART  Universe Today “Something Unknown Is At Work Here”: Unexpected Results From NASA Mission To Deflect Asteroid  IFLScience DART’s …

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Scientists Unearth 3,000-Year-Old Giant Trees in Tanzania – A New Species Found

Scientists Unearth 3,000-Year-Old Giant Trees in Tanzania – A New Species Found

In a groundbreaking discovery, botanists have identified a towering, ancient species of tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Known as Tessmannia princeps, these giants stand at heights of up to 131 feet and are estimated to be between 2,000 and 3,000 years old. The research team, led by Andrea Bianchi, a horticulturist at the Muse Science Museum in Trento, documented the …

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