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Project seeks to protect ancient tree lineages that have survived from a time before Earth’s continents broke apart.

Rainforest of super trees descended from lost supercontinent Gondwana being created in Australia

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Forensic authorities in the Dominican Republic worked Wednesday to identify the remains of at least 14 mostly decomposed bodies found on an abandoned vessel 10 nautical miles of its northern coast.The Dominican Republic Navy said the 14 skeletons appeared to belong to individuals from Senegal and Mauritania, according to the documentation found next to the bodies.Authorities are also working to determine the cause and time of the deaths and whether 12 packages of a substance found on the boat contained illicit drugs, presumably cocaine or heroin.Cell phones and geolocation devices were also found on the boat, said the Navy, which released images...

14 bodies, stash of suspected drugs found on abandoned boat

After three years of meticulous research, an international team of researchers has discovered a fossilized giant basal tetrapod in Namibia’s arid region. Basal tetrapods are early four-legged vertebrates that lived during the crucial transition from water to land. This three-meter-long skeleton, found in the Ugab River valley, is the...

Giant swamp creature found in Namibia was an ambush predator

The “MisinfoNation” series returns with a new chapter in Donie O’Sullivan’s investigation into the pervasive surge of misinformation targeting American elections. Tune into “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper” on Sunday, August 11 at 8pm ET/PT.

Listen to what Trump supporter says will happen if he loses in November

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Tropical storm Debby has caused flooding throughout the southeast, leading some South Carolina residents to find alligators swimming in their backyards.

Watch: Tropical storm Debby has alligators swimming in people’s backyards

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An invasive species of worm is making its home in Texas once more. The hammerhead flatworm is an extremely toxic worm that is hard to kill and has proven extremely dangerous to native earthworms in the area. While they pose little danger to humans or larger animals, experts encourage residents to kill any of these flatworms they find.
The trick here, though, is that you don’t want to touch these creepy crawlers, as they can actually release toxins that can irritate the skin. Spotting these worms shouldn’t be too difficult, either, as they can grow over a foot long. They can...

This toxic foot-long worm is invading Texas, and it’s pure nightmare fuel

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 Torrential rains in Brazil have eroded parts of a fossil site, revealing what scientists think could be the world’s oldest known dinosaur skeletons.The “almost fully preserved” dinosaur fossil, discovered next to a reservoir in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, could be around 233 million years old, researchers say.They suspect the fossil creature lived during the Triassic Period, when all of the Earth’s continents were a single landmass called Pangea, and dinosaurs had just emerged.Researchers suspect the unearthed fossil belongs to a member of the Herrerasauridae family of carnivorous dinosaurs that grew to about 2.5m in length.These...

Heavy rains in Brazil unearth what could be world’s oldest dinosaur fossil

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Survival International, a prominent advocacy group for Indigenous peoples, has released photographs showing members of the reclusive Mashco Piro tribe on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. The group claims these images prove logging concessions are “dangerously close” to the tribe’s territory. The photos raise alarm bells about the potential threats to one of the world’s largest “uncontacted” tribes.

Photos Of An Isolated Peruvian Tribe Reveal 'Dangerously Close' Logging Concessions, According To Advocacy Group

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The oldest cave art in the world has been discovered, but scientists don’t think it was humans who did it.Cave paintings dating back 24,000 years have previously been uncovered in Spain. But, in the grand scheme of history, they have been blown out of the water by a discovery made on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.Paintings discovered in a Sulawesi cave are now the oldest known to man, dating back 51,200 years. Their discovery raised questions about the history of human activity on the island and migration more broadly.Advances in technology have now been able to analyse the artwork, which...

Oldest cave art in the world discovered – and it wasn't made by humans

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colombia's government announced Thursday, after the first robotic exploration of the three-century-old shipwreck.Dubbed the "holy grail" of shipwrecks, the San Jose was owned by the Spanish crown when it was sunk by the British navy near Cartagena in 1708. Only a handful of its 600-strong crew survived.In February, the Colombian government announced it would begin extractions from the ship off its Caribbean coast, with the wreckage believed to be holding treasures worth billions of dollars."Results of this exploration have revealed an unprecedented set of archaeological evidence, which has greatly...

New artifacts found in legendary treasure-laden shipwreck

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Members of the Mashco Piro tribe were filmed along a Peruvian river, near where companies have been demolishing land with government support.

Rare Video Shows Isolated Indigenous Tribe Emerging From Amazon Amid Nearby Logging

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Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging areas, a human rights group said.

Images released of uncontacted Amazon rainforest tribe in Peru seen near logging site

Palestinian authorities in Khan Younis, Gaza, carried out a mass burial of 89 bodies returned to the territory by the Israeli military. Residents desperate for information about missing loved ones gathered at Khan Younis’ Turkish cemetery, hoping to identify the remains of their relatives. Palestinian officials said that the Israelis did not provide any identities for the corpses, and there is no information about when or how the individuals died. The Israeli military has not commented on the transfer of bodies and did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

Shocking video shows 89 bodies returned to Gaza by Israel

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The incident shows the need to protect the Mashco Piro territory, says Survival International.

Uncontacted Tribe Attack Intruding Loggers With Arrows In The Peruvian Amazon

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Peru’s reclusive Mashco Piro ethnic group recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon, according to a regional Indigenous organization. FENAMAD, representing 39 Indigenous communities in the Cusco and Madre de Dios regions, said Monday that it believes illegal logging...

Reclusive tribe attacks loggers suspected of encroaching on their land in Peru’s Amazon

 At least 60 people were believed missing in Nepal after two buses were swept by a landslide off a highway and into a swollen river early Friday. Three passengers were rescued as the continuous rain made rescue efforts difficult. The three survivors were being treated in the hospital, government administrator Khima Nanada Bhusal said, adding that they reportedly jumped out of the bus and swam to the banks, where locals found them and took them to a nearby hospital. Landslides also blocked routes to the area in several places, according to Bhusal. Additional rescuers and security forces have been...

2 buses carrying at least 60 people swept into a river by a landslide in Nepal. 3 survivors found

The “Forest of the Lost Child” in Kenya is sacred to the Maasai people and critical to wildlife. Its future hangs in the balance.

This remote, mystical forest has been protected for centuries. Now it’s under threat

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A tsunami warning has been issued for Japan after a massive earthquake has hit the region. The magnitude of the tremor has been recorded at 7.1 on the
Richter scale

Japan earthquake: Enormous 7-magnitude tremor slams region as tsunami warning issued

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Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather.

New Yorkers are warned from the skies about impending danger from storms as city deploys drones

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A chainsaw amnesty is protecting the rainforest in Borneo

A non-profit called Health in Harmony is fighting deforestation in Borneo by buying loggers’ chainsaws, and providing healthcare...

A chainsaw amnesty is protecting the rainforest in Borneo

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