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Anyone living in alligator or crocodile territory knows about the vicious speed of surprise attacks. Using caution around the water’s edge and protecting any pets becomes paramount. However, even when locals and visitors exercise caution, it doesn’t always help prevent attacks. And unlike attacks from other predators (like bears), there does not appear to be […]

Meet ‘Gustave’ — The World’s Most Dangerous Crocodile with 200+ Rumored Kills

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Spanish authorities are investigating a man who allegedly damaged cave paintings that are thousands of years old by pouring water on them in order to take better photos for social media.

Man under investigation in Spain for pouring water on ancient cave paintings to get a sharper photo

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The burial site was hidden inside an abandoned fortress in Mongolia and contained the remains of a prestigious woman.

1,000-year-old remains of 'elite woman' in silk cloak found in abandoned fortress in Mongolia

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

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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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A crocodile killed a woman bathing in a river in eastern Indonesia, police and locals said Wednesday, with villagers later recovering parts of her body from the slaughtered animal.Halima Rahakbauw, 54, was swimming in a river in Wali village on the Maluku islands after spending Tuesday morning looking for clams when the reptile struck.Rahakbauw's neighbour, Rustam Ilyas, said relatives and friends started a search when she failed to return home.After spotting a sandal and a body part in the river, villagers reported the incident to police who killed the reptile."The villagers had to cut open the crocodile's belly to remove...

Crocodile kills woman bathing in a river in Indonesia

Theropod dinosaurs are one of the most important large groups of dinosaurs, including well-known predators, such as Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus, as well as modern birds. A variety of theropods are known from the Mesozoic Era, the age of the dinosaurs. Just as lions today are mainly found in Africa and...

Paleontologists discover new predatory dinosaur with a distinctive 'eyebrow'

Have you ever wondered what the largest crocodile ever was? Based on fossil evidence, the longest crocodile ever to live was a Sarcosuchus imperator, who measured 40 feet long and weighed 17,600 pounds. The largest one ever officially measured was Lolong, who was a saltwater crocodile that measured 20 feet three inches long and weighed […]

Top 8 Largest Crocodiles Ever

In 2019, Ghana successfully hosted the “Year of Return,” a year-long series of events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first recorded enslaved Africans in Virginia, USA. The initiative drew an estimated 1,500 African Americans, including notable figures such as Tina Knowles-Lawson (Beyoncé’s mother), Boris...

11 Black-Americans who have traced their African ancestry or became citizens

The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert on planet Earth. It sits in North Africa, covering parts of Egypt, Libya, Sudan, and Chad, and is famous for its sand dune fields and major rivers of the Nile and Niger. Along with its stunning geographic features, the Sahara has immense biodiversity, despite its extreme terrain. […]

Discover 25 Animals That Call the Sahara Desert Their Home

Researchers say they've recovered one of the world's oldest known dinosaurs after heavy rains exposed a Herrerasaurid skeleton in southern Brazil.

Heavy rains expose one of the oldest dinosaur skeletons ever discovered, researchers claim

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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

Three thousand holidaymakers were evacuated from a campsite in Canet-en-Roussillon, France, on Sunday night, due to a fire that caused eleven minor injuries before being brought under control, according to the fire department and the prefecture. Story by France 2 and Vedika Bahl.

Fires in the South of France: campsite evacuated, 11 slightly injured

London (AFP) – Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour wraps up its European leg in London on Tuesday, after the American megastar wowed hundreds of thousands of fans across a dozen countries. "I wish I could have toured Europe more. This is a dream crowd," the 34-year-old singer told fans at...

Five things to know as Taylor Swift's European tour ends

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Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

"Any harvesting for traditional uses must consider the ability of the natural population to sustain such harvesting." You've likely heard of animal poaching — a big problem for animals like elephants and rhinos — but what about succulent poaching? According to a report from Mail & Guardian, succulent poaching is having a devastating effect on the natural environment in South Africa's Western Cape.

Officials alarmed by concerning sales trend targeting vulnerable flora species as hot commodity: 'Less than 25% of the trade is intercepted by enforcement officials'

Five Kenyan police officers appeared in court on Wednesday, suspected of helping Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, accused of murdering and dismembering dozens of women, escape from a Nairobi police cell. More information with FRANCE 24 correspondent in Nairobi Bastien Renouil.

Kenya police in court over serial killer suspect's escape

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

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African countries seek to contain spread of Mpox

The United Nation's International Organisation for Migration (IOM) appealed on Wednesday for $18.5 million in assistance...

African countries seek to contain spread of Mpox

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