Image shows the University of Vienna, Austria, undated photo. Researchers discovered that celestial bodies of the solar system changed the Earth's climate about 200 million years ago. (Universitat Wien, Gebhard Sengmuller/Newsflash)

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New Study Says Other Planets In Solar System Can Affect Earth’s Climate

The other planets in our solar system have the ability to influence climate change on earth according to a new study conducted by Austrian, British and American scientists. The research suggests that the other planets had an impact on the Earth's climate 200 million years ago. Newsflash obtained a statement…

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November 13, 2022

Picture shows detail from tomb 14 with a necklace of bronze pendants (8th-7th century BC), undated. The discovery has been made at the Kopilo site in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (ÖAW- ÖAI, M. Gavranovic/Newsflash)

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Balkan Cemetery Studies Reveal High Prehistoric Mortality Rate

A necropolis found in Bosnia and Herzegovina has revealed a high mortality rate in the prehistoric period after archaeologists discovered 46 graves and 53 individuals from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Picture shows burial construction with an outer ring of stones including three individual graves, undated. The discovery has been…

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September 5, 2022

Hermine Orian, aged 103, from the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol in Italy who is fighting for an Austrian citizenship, as according to her statements "she wants to die an Austrian." (Andreas Hofer, Bund fur Tirol (AHBT)/Newsflash)

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Woman Aged 103 Who Defied Mussolini After He Annexed Her Home Wants To Die Austrian

A brave woman who refused to accept that she had to speak Italian when Austria lost South Tyrol to the fascists after the First World War has said she wants to get her Austrian citizenship back before she dies. The area where she lives was taken from Austria and handed…

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May 19, 2022

Scientists ascending to the research station in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria. (ZAMG, Niedermoser/Newsflash)

Environment / Europe / General News

Mountains Of Nanoplastic Deposits From London And Paris Found At 3106-Metre Altitude In Alps

Microscopic pieces of plastic from European cities such as London and Paris have been detected in the Austrian Alps at about 3,106 metres above sea level. Recent measurements taken at the Sonnblick Observatory, which is located in the Austrian Hohe Tauern mountain range, have shown that around 42 kilogrammes of…

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February 13, 2022

Life reconstruction of the dinosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus from the Late Cretaceous of Austria. (University of Vienna, Fabrizio De Rossi/Newsflash)

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German And Austrian Palaeontologists Reconstruct Loner Dinosaur That Was Sluggish And Deaf

German and Austrian palaeontologists have reconstructed an 80-million-year-old dinosaur that was probably a slow-moving, hard-of-hearing loner. Struthiosaurus austriacus was up to eight metres (26 feet) tall, sluggish, had poor hearing and was probably a loner, the experts believe. The remains of the 80-million-year-old dinosaur were discovered in a mine near…

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January 24, 2022

Pieces of the pigeon snail Mitrella viennensis, named after Vienna, with a historical label and an outdated name. (NHM Vienna, Alice Schumacher/Newsflash)

Europe / General News / History

Museum Dusts Off 150 Year Old Storage Boxes And Discovers 33 New Species Of Prehistoric Snails

Vienna’s Natural History Museum has discovered 33 new species of snails that lived millions of years ago after unboxing them from their 150-year storage. The Museum of Natural History in Vienna even named one of the newly-discovered species after the Austrian capital, christening the small snail Mitrella viennensis. The snails…

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November 9, 2021

The adorable little meerkat pup that was recently born at the Vienna Zoo in Austria.

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Meerkat Mom Gives Birth To Adorable Little Pup In Austrian Zoo

A meerkat mom has recently delivered an adorable little pup that made its first-ever public appearance in an Austrian zoo. Meerkat mom named Zuzu from the Tiergarten Schonbrunn Zoo located in the Austrian city of Vienna, has become a mother for the third time after giving birth to a cute…

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September 11, 2021

The young Ural owl at the Tiergarten Schonbrunn Zoo in Austria's capital Vienna.

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Ural Owl That Hatched In Austrian Zoo To Be Reintroduced In Austrian Alpine Wilderness

A young Ural owl that hatched in the Vienna zoo several months ago will be released in the wilderness where it will have a chance to grow in a new home amidst the country's wonderful green forests. The small Ural owl (Strix uralensis) is currently getting ready for the greatest…

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August 19, 2021

The boa that appeared in the toilet of Eva Kastner in Floridsdorf, Vienna, in Austria, on 8 July 2021.

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Another Large Snake Turns Up In Austrian OAPs Toilet Due To Popularity Of Exotic Pets

Cops in Austria have been called out to another case of a snake appearing in someone's toilet in what is becoming a bizarre trend in the central European nation. The police received a call from an apartment in the capital Vienna after 68-year-old resident Eva Kastner spotted a metre- (3.3-ft)…

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July 28, 2021

Footage from the private chambers of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Queen of Hungary's castle in the town of Godollo in Hungary.

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Famous Austrian Princess Sissis Undies Sell For Over GBP 3,273 At German Auction House

Undies that belonged to the famous Austrian Empress and Queen of Hungary 'Sissi' have been bought for GBP 3,273 at an auction house in Germany. The underwear that once belonged to Empress Elisabeth of Austria (14th December 1837 - 10th September 1898) were auctioned at the Hermann Historica auction house…

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June 16, 2021