Long-Lost American Shipwreck Identified By Analyzing Timbers

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Lead author Ignacio Mundo measures one of the ships ribs in preparation for sampling, in an undated photo. The rings revealed the wreckage off the coast of Argentina that is the remains of the Dolphin, an American whaling ship lost in 1859 some 10,000 miles from home. (Mnica Grosso,SWNS/Newsflash)

A shipwreck has been finally identified as a whaler lost more than 160 years ago after scientists analysed TREE RINGS in the rotting timber. The rings revealed the wreckage off…

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Two-Year-Old Bit Back When Snake Sank Its Fangs Into Her

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A girl, 2, sits on a hospital bed in Bingol, Turkey, in undated video. She allegedly bit a snake that bit her. (Newsflash)

A two-year-old girl got her own back when a snake sank its fangs into her - and bit back. The toddler, identified only by her initials as S.E., was playing…

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New Species Of Bear-Dog Dating Back Millions Of Years Named After Large, One-Eyed Giant

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A representation of the newly discovered species of large predators belong to a group of carnivores that could weigh around 320 kilogrames, appeared 36 million years ago before becoming extinct around 7.5 million years ago, found in Sallespisse, France. (Denny Navarra/Newsflash)

An international team of scientists has identified a new species of ancient predator that was part bear and part dog and roamed Europe millions of years ago. The new genus…

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Astronomers Find Rapidly Growing Black Hole From Early Universe

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This is an artist's impression of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming "starburst" galaxy. It will eventually become an extremely bright quasar once the dust is gone. The research team believes that the object, discovered in a Hubble deep-sky survey, could be the evolutionary "missing link" between quasars and starburst galaxies. The dusty black hole dates back to only 750 million years after the Big Bang. (NASA, ESA, N. Bartmann/Newsflash)

Astronomers have identified a rapidly-growing black hole considered a “missing link” in our knowledge of the early universe. Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, experts discovered the "monster" body…

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Turkish Treasure Hunters Busted While Digging For Loot In Cemetery

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Prof Mevlut Gullu, (pictured) one of the four people who made unauthorized excavations to find treasure in an old cemetery in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, was taken into custody. (Newsflash)

A Turkish professor has been caught raiding a local cemetery with three accomplices in search of treasure they believed was buried there. The incident took place at the cemetery in…

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Frogs And Toads Discovered From Over 70M Years Ago That Lived Alongside Dinosaurs And Are Almost Identical To Species Today

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An illustration of the frogs belongs to the Calyptocephalellidae family and the one of the Kuruleufenia genus, both lived more than 70 million years ago and managed to survive the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid. (Universidad de Chile/Newsflash)

Researchers in Chile have discovered fossils of frogs and toads from over 70 million years ago that walked alongside dinosaurs and are almost identical to species of frogs found in…

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Microplastics Found For The First Time In Fish From Peruvian Amazon

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The fish known as Boquichico (Prochilodus nigricans Agassiz) the kind of fish microplastics were found for the first time in from the Peruvian Amazon, in November, 2021. (Newsflash)

Microplastics have been found for the first time in fish from the Peruvian Amazon. The announcement was made by the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment, which detailed an investigation that…

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Remains Of Beautiful 19 Year Old German Girl Who Went Missing 26 Years Ago Uncovered

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Sonja Engelbrecht, 19, went missing on the night of 10th to 11th April, 1995, in Munich, Germany. (Newsflash)

A missing person case in Germany might be on the verge of being solved after a bone belonging to a beautiful 19-year-old who went missing 26 years ago was discovered…

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