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Researchers May Have Discovered, In 2007, A New Dinosaur Species, Said To Be The Largest Dinosaur Ever Found In Australia. The Dinosaur, Called Australotitan Cooperensis Or “The Southern Titan,” Is 6.5m Tall And As Long As A basketball Court. Australotitan, Closely Related To 3 Sauropod Species, Is One Of The World’s 15 Largest Dinosaurs.

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3 Climbers Have Recently Set Records For Climbing Mount Everest. Hong Kong‘s Tsang Yin Hung, 45, Has Set The Fastest Woman Record For Climbing Everest, Completing It From Base Camp In 25 Hours And 50 Minutes. Arthur Muir, 75, Became The Oldest American, While China’s Zhang Hong, 46, Became The First Blind Man From Asia To Summit Everest.

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Ms. Elisabetta Belloni Is One Of The Most Impressive Women In Power, As She Has Become The First Woman To Head The Department Of Information Security (DIS), Italy‘s Secret Services. This Feat Is One Of Her Many Trail Blazes, As She Was Also The First Woman Secretary-General Of Italy’s Foreign Ministry – Italy’s Highest Diplomatic Post.

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The US FDA Has Authorized The Use Of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine For Children, In The US, Btw The Age Of 12 To 15 Years. This Authorization Is Most Welcome, Especially For Schools Effectively Opening, And Other Adolescents Centered Activities Like Summer Camping, And Sleepovers. The Pfizer-BioNTech Is Already Available To Anyone Over 16.

A New Study, Based On The Computer Model Of A Fossilized T. Rex Tail, Is Indicating That T. Rex Likely Moved At A Speed Of ~3 Miles/Hour. Researchers Believe That This Speed, Comparable To The Walking Speed Of Humans, Was Adapted By T-Rex As It Would Require Minimal Energy. Another Study Did Estimate T. Rex Top Speed To ~12-18 Miles/Hour.

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Researchers Successfully Made A Second Attempt At Producing Human-Monkey Chimeras, By Infusing Human Stem Cells Into 132 Embryos Of Long-Tailed Macaques. But The Embryos Were Then Terminated 19 Days After Injecting The Stem Cells. Chimeras May Be Unethical, But May Help In Drug Tests Or To Overcome Donor Organs/Tissues Shortages Globally.

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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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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 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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