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Wisdom, A Laysan Albatrosses, Of At Least 70 Years Old, Hatched A Chick In Feb. Of 2021 In Midway Atoll Wildlife Refuge—Home To The World’s Largest Albatross Colony. This Birthing Makes Her The World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird To Birth A Chick. The US Fish And Wildlife Service Indicates That Wisdom May Have Mothered At Least 30–36 Chicks.

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Nature Conservationists In Australia Are Planning To Build The World’s First Duck-Billed Platypus Refuge, As The Animal Hinges On The Verge Of Extinction Due To Bushfires and Drought. The Refuge Is Expected To Accommodate About 65 Platypus, Especially In Times Of Crisis. The Refuge Would Also Help To Better Understand The Animal, To Ensure Its Future.

Archeologist, For The First Time, Have Unearthed A Unique Carriage For Festive Activities In Ancient Pompeii. The Four-wheeled Carriage, Comprising Iron, Bronze, And Tin, Was Found, ~700 Metres North Of Ancient Pompeii Walls, Near The Stables Of An Ancient Villa At Civita Giuliana. This Discovery Will Shed More Light On Ancient Pompeii.

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Atlanta Has Created The USA’s Largest Free Food Forest About 10 Mins From Atlanta’s Airport—The World’s Busiest Airport. The 7.1 Acres Of Urban Agriculture, Located In Browns Mill, Where The Closest Grocery Store Is A 30-Mins Bus Ride, Will Comprise 2,500 Edible And Medicinal Plants. There Are At Least 70 Free Food Forests In The USA.

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The FDA, On 2/27/2021, Issued An Emergency Authorization For The Johnson & Johnson (JJ) 66.1% Efficacy Covid-19 Vaccine For Adults Aged 18 And Older. This Will Be The Third Vaccine Approved In The USA And The First Single-Shot Vaccine. The JJ Vaccine Also Does Not Have Tedious Cold Requirements Like Those Of Moderna And Pfizer/BioNTech.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Oldest Australian Art Drawn On A Rock. The Rock Art, A Painting Of A Kangaroo, Discovered In Western Australia’s Kimberley Region, Which Is Known For Its Aboriginal Rock Paintings, Is Said To Be Dated Between 17,500 And 17,100 Years Old Based On The Radiocarbon Dating Of Wasp Nests.

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A Rare Bee Species, Native To Queensland, Australia, Which Has Not Been Seen In 100 Years Was Re-discovered After An Attempt To Verify Its Extinction. The Bee Species, Pharohylaeus Lactiferus, For Which Nothing Is Known Of Its Biology, Is Said To Be Struggling To Survive Due To, For Example, Habitat Loss, Wildfires, And Climate Change.

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Researchers, In A First Of Its Kind, Are Indicating That They Were Able To Converse With Lucid Dreamers—-People Aware That They Are Dreaming. The Research, Involving 36 Participants, Was Conducted By 4 Independent Labs That Used Different Communication Methods. This Feat Is Regarded As An Important Milestone For Understanding Dreams.

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Researchers Accidentally Discovered, As A Fossil, The Biggest Coelacanths Ever. The Discovered Fossil, Found In Morocco, Estimated To Be About 5 Metres In Length, Is Said To Be As Big As A Great White Shark. Coelacanths Still Swim In The Oceans Today And Are Said To Have Survived The Extinction That Killed Off The Dinosaurs.

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Virginia, A State That Has Executed More People Than Any US State, Has Voted To Abolish The Death Penalty. And Establish A Maximum Punishment Of life In Prison Without Parole. But A Judge May Suspend Part Of The Sentence. The Bill, When Signed By Gov. Ralph Northam, Will Make Virginia The First Southern State To Abolish The Death Penalty.

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A 21- Year Old Lady From Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England, has Become The Youngest Female To Row Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean. The Teacher, Jasmine Harrison, Began Her 3000 Mile Journey Across The Ocean From La Gomera, In The Canary Islands, In Dec. 2020, And Completed The Journey In 70 days, 3 Hours 48 Minutes After Reaching Antigua.

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Southbank By Beulah, The $2 Billion Tower Scheduled For Construction In 2021, And Set To Be Australia’s Largest Tower, Will Also Be The World’s Tallest Vertical Garden. The Garden Will Comprise Plants Distributed Based On The Exact Nature Characteristics Of Each m² Of The Tower To Expose The Plants To Their Natural Climate Conditions.

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The First Black-Footed Ferret, Called Elizabeth Ann, An Endangered Animal Native To North America, Was Cloned From Cells That Were Banked In 1988. The Cells Were Developed Into Embryos, Then Implanted Into A Domestic Ferret Surrogate, From Which Ann Was Delivered Via C-Section. This Feat Could Lead To Genetic Diversity For Endangered Species.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Safely Landed On Mars On Feb. 18, 2021. The Rover’s Mission Is To Find Signs Of Life, Including Ancient Microbial Life On Mars. The Rover Would Characterize Mars’ Geology And Past Climate, Including Being The First Mission To Collect And Store Martian Rock And Regolith, Paving The Way For Human Exploration.

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What Is Probably The World’s Oldest Beer Factory, Built To Provide Beer For Royal Rituals, Was Discovered In Abydos, An Ancient Burial Ground In The Desert, Over 280 Miles South Of Cairo. The Factory Is Said To Date Back To King Narmer, Who Unified Ancient Egypt At The Beginning Of The First Dynastic Period (3150 B.C.- 2613 B.C.).

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2 Types Of Unidentified Stationary Animals Were Unexpectedly Found Attached To A Boulder, ~2,860 Ft Beneath Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Sheet, In Frigid Temp. With Lack Of Light And Food Conditions Thought Incapable Of Supporting Life. One Of The Animals Seem To Have long Stalks, While The Other Looks Like A Round Sponge-Like Animal.

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A New Study Is Indicating That The Meteorite That Killed The Dinosaurs Seem To Be Long-Period Comets, From Oort Cloud. As These Comets, When Close To The Sun, Could Break-Up, Creating The Right Conditions And Impact That Killed The Dinosaurs. This Notion Is Supported By Comet’s Carbonecous Chondrites Composition In The Chicxulub Crater.

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Geologists Have, For The First Time, Animated How The Earth’s Plates Moved Relative To Each Other Over The Last Billion Years. The Geologists Spent 4 Years To Create The Animation, Using Paleomagnetism And Current Tectonic Plate Data. The Animation May Help Explain How Earth Became Habitable For Complex Creatures.

Researchers Are Indicating That Some Stonehenge Bluestones Were Previously Used In Wales Before Being Transported To Their Current Location. This Find Is Based On The Discovery, In Wales, Close To The Bluestone Source, Of The Identical 110m Diameters Of The Stone Circle, Known As Waun Mawn. And The Attributes Of The Securing Stone Hole.

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4 Persons, In Oregon, USA, Who Received The Complete COVID-19 Vaccine Dose, Tested Positive For COVID-19. This Makes Oregon One Of The First States To Identify “Breakthrough Cases,” In Which Folks Considered Immune Are Now Sickened With Mild Cases Of COVID-19. But Health Officials Are Not Surprised By This Given The Vaccines ~95% Efficacy.

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