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Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?
A Google Maps scan on Monday of the body of water directly west of the Philippines now shows a name once invisible to most users -- the West Philippine Sea. The Philippine government's preferred ...
MANILA, Philippines — The western section of the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) has been properly labeled as “West Philippine Sea” on Google Maps. A quick inspection of Google Maps as of ...
Brutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem ... Once the world's fourth-largest lake, much of the salty Aral had largely disappeared by the late 1970s ...
Aquatic animals delivered a one-two predatory punch millions of years ago. A combination of different teeth marks on “sea cow” bones show that a crocodile snatched the creature’s skull and drowned it ...
“It took us some time to determine what they were – sea cow skulls, which are quite peculiar in appearance. “By consulting geological maps and examining the sediments at the new ...
However badly your day is going, spare a thought for the ancient sea cow that's the subject of newly published research from an international research team. Dragged by a crocodile before its body ...
The latter left one of its teeth impaled in the sea cow’s body. By analyzing the fossil, unearthed in Venezuela, researchers were able to piece together how the sea cow, which belonged to an ...
An unfortunate sea cow – a mammal that looks a bit like a seal – was torn to shreds by a crocodile in waters of modern-day Venezuela, they say. When the croc was finished with the corpse ...