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Archive of art by children and COVID drawings becomes part of UNESCO's Australian Memory of the World Register.

Squirming slowly along the ocean floor, sea cucumbers look like an easy target to hungry predators.

A fossilised ballerina sponge from Aotearoa has been named as one of the top newly described marine species of 2022.

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Branching marine worms are extremely rare: bizarre creatures with one head but a body that branches repeatedly into multiple posterior ends. Only three such species are known, and one of these worm species has just been awarded a place in the top-ten

A fossilised sponge from New Zealand has been named as one of the top 10 new marine species of 2022. Latrunculia (Latrunculia) tutu, more affectionately known as the Ballerina sponge, has a microskeleton that resembles the skirt of a ballerina. Only ...

The month of March, 1971. The Ramna Race Course maidan was thronging with people coming from across the country. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the paramount leader of 75 million people, in the immemorially large mass gathering called for independence. In a historic speech, he roared: “The struggle this time is a struggle for our emancipation, the struggle this time is a struggle for independence.” The speech is one of the shining examples of what the Cambridge University historian Jacob F. Field ca...

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A relative of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl known for the numerous paper cranes she folded until radiation-induced leukemia cost her life following the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, said he aims to list her cranes and other items on a UNESCO documentary heritage program.&#x2...