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Scientists thought this ancient fish had been extinct for 66 million years, until it suddenly appeared in a fishing net in South Africa |

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For decades, the coelacanth existed in scientific literature as a creature of the distant past. Fossils showed that members of this ancient fish lineage had lived alongside dinosaurs and vanished from the fossil record around 66 million years ago. The assumption seemed straightforward: they were gone.Then, in December 1938, a fishing trawler operating off the…

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166-million-year-old Jurassic dinosaur highway discovered beneath a British quarry | World News

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A routine day at a limestone quarry in Oxfordshire has led to one of Britain’s most significant dinosaur discoveries in decades. Hidden beneath layers of clay, hundreds of fossilised footprints have emerged from a landscape that existed around 166 million years ago, when the region lay beside a warm, shallow lagoon rather than rolling countryside….

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Billions under the Pacific Ocean: Apple-sized metal-rich rocks that could power the future of electric cars |

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Roughly four kilometres below the surface of the central Pacific Ocean, scattered across a stretch of seafloor the size of the continental United States, lie hundreds of billions of apple-sized rocks. They are dark, lumpy, and almost impossibly slow-growing, a few millimetres every million years. Some of the ones sitting on the seabed today began…

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