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Rare, nearly complete fossil reveals giant among Jurassic sharks A absolute unit from ancient times. Listen - 01:25 Enlarge Image This illustration shows what the hybodontiform shark Asteracanthus might have looked like, along with silhouettes showing the shark next to a person for scale. Sebastian Stumpf/Fabrizio De Rossi Sharks tend to be much harder to find preserved in fossil form than their bony di...

The global community is rushing to respond to new variants of the novel coronavirus, which appear to spread faster than their earlier counterparts. The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases yesterday called on the New Zealand Government to begin its ...

While warm and settled conditions will see out the week for most of New Zealand, MetService are forecasting temperatures to drop considerably next week as a new, cooler airmass moves over the country. Much of the South Island will see a dramatic ...

The Black Vault releases trove of CIAs classified UFO documents A stunning collection of UFO documents is now available for you to download and dig through. Listen - 01:55 Enlarge Image This still shows the unidentified object tracked by a US Navy pilot in 2015 in the "Gimbal" video. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET "Unidentified flying objects" are definitely a thing, but do they have alien origi...

YouTube YouTube has released its inaugural class of African content creators, which are set to receive a grant for the development of their channels from the global #YouTubeBlackVoices Fund. The selection is from the U.S., U.K., Kenya, Brazil, Australia, South Africa and Nigeria and include musicians, beauty entrepreneurs, comedians, activists, poets, personal trainers, teachers and photographers. The creators were invited to apply and evaluated on channel performance and engagement metrics. ...

Megalodon shark fossils suggest that newborns were larger than adult humans: Study The newborn would have been large enough to be a fierce predator of the seas, and not need to compete for food. Jan 14, 2021 09:49:00 IST A new study has now found that newborn Megalodon sharks were supersized fish that were larger than most adult humans. As per a study conducted by  paleobiologist Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University in Chicago along with his colleagues, the body size of the iconic gigantic Mega...

The rare and recent discovery also shows that galaxies could shut down as a result of mergers. Jan 14, 2021 14:21:49 IST Even though galaxies are known to die out, scientists never could witness the process of a galaxy dying out, until now. Using a high tech telescope, scientists saw the galaxy, ID2299, ejecting out the star forming gases and losing its fuel. As per a press statement, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) spotted the galaxy ejecting nearly half of its star-fo...

Many nations that have ordered CoronaVac are relatively poor, desperate to halt the pandemic and protect their population.

Ending the current state of emergency immediately after Tokyo’s daily new COVID-19 cases dip below

The porcine portrait, found at in the back of an Indonesian cave, demonstrates impressive artistic attention to detail.