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A biotech company that claims to have brought dire wolves back from extinction has announced plans to resurrect giant extinct birds called moa. However, experts say that dire wolves were never truly resurrected, and that moa will be even harder to de-extinct. Earlier this month, Texas-based Colossal Biosciences said it had teamed up with filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson and Indigenous …

The newly discovered “interstellar visitor” 3I/ATLAS can be seen shining like a rainbow-colored string of cosmic pearls in a trippy new timelapse image captured by a telescope in Hawaii. The interloper was discovered on July 1, and within 24 hours NASA confirmed it was an interstellar object — an ejected piece of an alien star system that is shooting through …

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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 …

Imagine a snake so large it could span the length of a city bus. This isn’t a creature from a horror film, but a real animal that once dominated the Earth. The Titanoboa, a massive serpent that lived around 58 to 60 million years ago, was the largest snake to ever exist. Stretching up to 45 feet (13.72 m) and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …