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53 million years ago, a unique flightless bird, sporting an unusually large head, roamed the swampy Arctic regions, challenging our understanding of ancient avian species

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  Gastornis was also discovered in Wyoming but scientists confirm finding of fossils on Ellesmere island as bird thought to migrate during dark Arctic winters A giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse’s roamed the Arctic 53m years ago when the icy wilderness was more like a swamp , scientists have confirmed. A joint study by American and Chinese institutions found that the massive beast, known as Gastornis, existed on what is now known as Ellesmere island, found above the Arctic circle. It’s estimated the bird was 6ft tall and weighed several hundred pounds. The evidence for Gastornis’s presence in the Arctic comes from a single fossil toe bone, found by researchers in the 1970s. Scientists have now finally confirmed that the bone matches that of a fossilized Gastornis of similar age found in Wyoming. “I couldn’t tell the Wyoming specimens from the Ellesmere specimen, even though it was found roughly 4,000km (2,500 miles) to the north,” said Prof Th...

Soldier sentenced to 25 years in prison in BLM protester killing

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An Army sergeant convicted of murder in the fatal 2020 shooting of an armed Black Lives Matter protester in Austin was sentenced to 25 years in prison. An Army sergeant convicted of murder in the fatal 2020 shooting of an armed Black Lives Matter protest er during a demonstration in Austin, Texas, was sentence d to 25 years in prison on Wednesday, even as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott seeks to grant him a pardon. Attorneys for 35-year-old Daniel Perry asked a judge to consider giving their client a 10-year sentence for the murder of Garrett Foster, a U.S. Air Force veteran, citing Perry's lack of criminal history and presenting evidence that he has post-traumatic stress disorder from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. But Travis County, Texas, Criminal Courts Judge Clifford Brown rejected the plea for leniency and sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison. Prosecutors have asked Brown to consider a sentence of at least 25 years. This booking photo provided by the Austin, Texas, Police Departmen...

Lebanon still proxy battleground, 50 years after Israel raid

It was a cold night 50 years ago when an Israeli commando team led by a man disguised as a woman infiltrated a posh Beirut neighborhood and shot and killed three top officials from the Palestine Liberation Organization in their apartments BEIRUT -- It was a cold night 50 years ago when an Israeli commando team led by a man disguised as a woman infiltrated a posh Beirut neighborhood and shot and killed three top officials from the Palestine Liberation Organization in their apartments. The anniversary is little noted, but the April 10, 1973 operation has a relevance that continues today. The raid was one of the first times that Lebanon became the arena where Israel and its opponents would settle their accounts. Fifty years later, it remains so, as highlighted by last week's exchange of rocket fire and airstrikes across the border between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in Lebanon. The boldness of the assassinations — by an Israeli team slipping in and out of Beirut with littl...

Mystery over ancient tribe ‘mummified by the desert’ 4,000 years ago solved

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THE MYSTERIOUS origins of an ancient tribe whose bodies were found perfectly preserved in a desert in China have finally been identified. DNA analysis of Bronze Age mummies discovered in tombs in the Tarim Basin reveal they belonged to indigenous folk descended from ancient Eurasians. The finding flies in the face of previous research on the corpses, which had suggested that they belonged to western travellers. The groups’ Western features and unusual dress and diet had led experts to conclude that they were migrants from southern Russia. The new research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, puts to bed once and for all a debate that has raged for decades. In the 1990s, roughly 300 mummies dating from between 2,000 B.C. to 200 A.D. were discovered in the Taklamakan Desert in China’s Xinjiang region. The area’s dry, arid conditions and freezing cold nights naturally mummified the remains of locals, who were buried in boat-like tom...

Revealing evidence a comet destroyed an ancient civilization more than 13,000 years ago

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The evidence that our planet harbored intelligent life before humans is increasingly evident. Now, one theory could reveal that a comet destroyed an ancient civilization more than 13,000 years ago. The evidence that our planet harbored intelligent life before humans is increasingly evident. Now, one theory could reveal that a comet destroyed an ancient civilization more than 13,000 years ago. A comet would have created a cataclysm similar to the one that destroyed the dinosaurs. Graham Hancock , one of the most controversial researchers of recent years, wrote a book entitled “Wizards of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization.” In it, he mentions an ancient pre-human civilization on Earth and how it was destroyed by a giant comet more than 13,000 years ago. An ancient civilization died out before mankind was born The remains of a giant comet pierced the atmosphere, generating a...

What if we find an Earth-like planet with intelligent life that is 500 years behind in technology and progress?

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What would we do if we found an Earth-like planet with intelligent life that is 500 years behind in Technology and advancements? What if we find this alien, quasi-tech civilization, we humans develop some kind of faster-than-light Technology so we can go visit, Star Trek style ? How would we behave? What would we do if we found an Earth-like planet with intelligent life that is 500 years behind in technology and advancements? What if we find this alien, quasi-tech civilization, we humans develop some kind of faster-than-light technology so we can go visit,  Star Trek style ? How would we behave? It sounds like a fun thought experiment, but it’s not really a question, but rather a whole nested set of questions about how to find extraterrestrial life, how to determine the presence of alien intelligence, how to determine the nature of that intelligence, and how we will study or even study it. We will try to make contact. There...

Levitation was mastered by very ancient civilizations 200,000 years ago

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I ask you to carefully examine the monolithic stone blocks and convince me that they can be moved. We can’t even lift all of these massive blocks with today’s modern cranes. If we can’t lift them, how did ancient civilizations manage to do so? I ask you to carefully examine the monolithic stone blocks and convince me that they can be moved. We can’t even lift all of these massive blocks with today’s modern cranes. If we can’t lift them, how did ancient civilizations manage to do so? Vulcanian Spock would have agreed that only one explanation is possible: they used some type of levitation Technology . According to what I’ve learned through many years of research into this topic, the ancient s had two methods for lifting those massive stones. The first strategy used sound-driven systems. However, throughout the history, ancient civilizations have been indicated to possibly unveiled the secret method with the construction of ...