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Researchers Have Estimated That Some 2.5 Billion T. Rex Lived And Died During The 2.5 Myrs That They Existed In The Cretaceous Period (65 –98 Myrs Ago). Scientists Estimated The Number Based On Fossil Record, Density Data And Data From Climate Models. They Also Deduced, For The First Time, That T. Rex Life Span Could Reach The Late 20s.

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Scientists May Have Developed The Whitest Paint Ever, A Counterpart To Ultra Black Material. The Paint Is Said To Reflect More Than 98% Of Sunlight; Unlike The Commercially Available Paints, Which Reflect 80% To 90% Of Sunlight. This Feat Is A Major Step In Energy Saving As 1% Of Reflectance Translates To 10 W.m-2 Less Sun Heat.

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Researchers Have Determined That The India Jumping Ant Is The First Known Insect Capable of Shrinking (By 20%) And Increasing Its Brain Size. The Ants Are Said To Decrease Their Brain Size In A Bid To Become Queen, Conserving Their Brain Energy For Reproduction. They, However, Increase Their Brain Size To Normal If Their Bid Fails.

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Just Like The Human Opposable Thumbs, Which Can Be Moved Around To Touch Other Fingers, Enabling Us To, E.G, Climb And Grab Things, A Pterosaur, Named Monkeydactyl, May Be The Oldest Creature With Opposable Thumbs. This Attribute Probably Allowed This Flying Reptiles To Climb Trees, About 160 Million Years Ago, To Feed On Insects And Preys.

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Rachael Blackmore, A 31-Year-Old Irishwoman, And A Professional Jockey Since 2015 Is Now The First Woman, Riding Minella Times, To Win Britain’s Grand National Horse Race–A Male-Dominated Sport. Blackmore Is The 20th Female Jockey To Compete In The Grand National Race Since 1839. And Women Have Only Being Permitted As Jockeys Since 1975.

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A Woman In Japan Has Become The First COVID-19 Patient To Recieve A Lung Transplant From Living Donors–Her Husband And Son. Dozens Of Lung Transplants To Treat Coronavirus Infections In China, Europe, And The United States Are Sourced From Dead Donors. And The Wait List For Lungs Transplant From Dead Donors Can Take Years Globally.

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A New Study, Based On 46 Male College Students And 1060 University Students, Is Indicating That The Higher The Psychopathic Traits In Folks, The Better They Are At Faking Remorse. And The More They Are Seen As Trustworthy, Especially By Women Who Show Higher Levels Of Emotionality. For Example, Sentimentality, Anxiety, And Fearfulness.

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A New Species Of Parasitic Wasp, Named Chrysis Parabrevitarsis (CP), Has Been Discovered In Norway. CP, Which Is Like Other Cuckoo Wasps, Was Discovered Using DNA Coding Techniques. CP Lays Eggs In Bees And Other Wasps Nests, Which Then Hatch Before The Host’s Eggs, Enabling CP’s Larvae To Eat The Host’s Eggs, Larvae, And Other Nest Food.

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The 4m-Long Saint-Bélec Slab, First Discovered In 1900, May Be Europe’s Oldest Map, With Its Markings Depicting A Rough 3D Match To The River Region In Which The Ancient Saint-Bélec Burial Mound Existed. There Are Such Stone Map Carvings All Over The World, But This May Be The First Map, Globally, To Depict An Area On A Specific Scale.

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Ayanna Williams Of Houston, Who Was The Guinness World Record Holder For The World’s Longest Fingernails, At 5.7 Metres, In 2017, Has Cut Her Nails, Recently Measured 7.3 Metres, In Fort Worth, Texas. But Lee Redmond, From Utah, Still Owns The Record For The Longest Nail At 8.5 Metres, Which She Lost In An Automobile Accident In 2009.

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