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Alligator Muja, Who Recently Celebrated Its 85th Birthday At The Belgrade Zoo, Is Said To Be The World’s Oldest Alligator. Muja Is So Old For An Aligator, Whose Lifespan Is Between 30-50 Years, That It Survived 3 Bombings– The World War II 1941, 1944 And The NATO 1999 Bombings. The Oldest Alligator, Until Muja, Saturn, Died In Russia In 2020.

Fossils Of A New Species Of Ancient Giant Rhino, Suggested To Have Roamed Btw NW China And India-Pakistan, Was Discovered In NW China. The Hornless Rhino, Paraceratherium Linxiaense, The Size of 4 Large African Elephants, Is Said To Be The Largest Land Mammal On Earth. With Head That Could Reach 7m, Making It Taller Than A Giraffe.

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The World’s Smallest Dinosaur, Thought To Be A Bird, May Be, With Skepticism In Some Quarters, A Lizard. Researchers Are Indicating This Upon Further Review Of The Fossil’s Attributes And Those of Another Discovered Oculudentavis Fossil. Bird-Like Attributes, Like Long And Tapering Snout And Vaulted Skull Roof, Led To The Confusion.

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Researchers Have Determined That Adult Planarians, A Type Of Flatworm, Can Still See Light In The Absence Of Their Eyes Or Heads. As The Worms Were Able To Detect Light Even After The Head Was Decapitated, By Using Body Cells That Create A Type Of Light-Sensitive Protein Known As An Opsin. Planarians Can Regenerate Body Parts.

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Researchers May Have Discovered How The Largest Known Flying Animal, Azhdarchid Pterosaurs (AP), With Neck Longer Than A Giraffe, Held Its Head Up In-Flight Or Carried Large Preys. They Discovered, Using CT Scan On Fossils From Morrocco, That AP Had A Unique Internal Neck Structure That Optimized Its Neck For Strength And Lightness.

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Japanese Researchers Discovered That Sea Slugs Could Decapitate Their Heads And Still Survive, Even To The Extent, For Some, Of Regenerating A New Body That Includes A Heart And Digestive System—Body Parts That Are Essential To Human Survival. But The Regeneration Only Applies To The Younger Ones, As The Older Ones Eventually Died.

Monde Nissin Corp.,The Producer Of Philippine’s Best-Selling Instant Noodle Brand “Lucky Me!,” Has Filed For An Initial Public Offering (IPO) To Raise As Much As 63 Billion Pesos ($1.3 billion). The Company Plans To Sell 3.6 Billion Shares At As Much As 17.5 Pesos Each, Which Could Be The Biggest First-Time Share Sale In Philippine.

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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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Elon Musk’s Electric Car Company, Tesla, Went Up In Value, Hitting, For The First Time On Wednesday the 6th Of January. 2021, The Market Value Of $700bn. This Increase In Share Price Also Made Elon Musk, Now Worth Over $185bn, The World’s Richest Man, Ahead Of Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos, Who Held The Title Since 2017.

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Researchers Are Indicating Alligators As The Largest Species That Can Regrow Missing Limbs. But Unlike The Lizards, Alligators Do Not Regrow Skeletal Muscles, But Just “Cartilage, Connective Tissue, And Skin.” This Find Implies That Alligators Are More Regenerative Than Mammals, But Less Than Lizards. Limbs Regrowth Is A Survival Trait.

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A New Species Of Prehistoric Crocodile Has Been Discovered. The Reptile, Called “Paludirex Vincenti,” Aka “Swamp king,” Is Said To Have Been A Top Predator In SE Queensland During The Pliocene. The 65 cm Skull Of The Reptile Indicates It Was ~16-Foot Long, And Resembled The Largest Crocodylian Today (Indo-Pacific Crocodile) But On Steriods.

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Scientists May Have Found The Oldest Animal Sperm Inside A New Species Of An Ostracod, Called Myanmarcypris Hui. The Sperm, Said To Be 100 Myrs Old, Was Found In An Ostracod Frozen Inside The Blob Of Tree Resin In Myanmar. The Sperm Age Dwarfs The Oldest Known Sample Of A Fossilized Animal (Ostracod) Sperm, Said To Be 17 Myrs Old.

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Apple Is On A Roll By Being The First Publicly Traded US Company To Be Valued At $2 Trillion. And This Comes After ~2 Years When The Company Was Noted To Be The First Publicly Traded Company Worth $1 Trillion. The $2 Trillion Valuation Is Based On The Current Share Count Of 4.275 Billion, Valued At $467.77 Per Share. Awesome!

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A New Study Is Indicating That An Enormous Ancient Animal, Ancestor To The American Alligators, With Banana-Size Teeth And As Long As Buses And Limos, Existed About 75 To 82 Myrs Ago. The Creature, Called “Terror Crocodile” Or Deinosuchus, And The Largest Carnivore In Its Ecosystem, Preyed On Dinosaurs That Fed Near Its Water Ways.

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The Sahara, 100 Myrs Ago, Was The Most Dangerous Place On Earth, Comprising Ferocious Creatures, Including Flying Reptiles And Crocodile-like Predators. This Is Based On The Biggest Scientific Review, In Almost 100 Years, Of Fossil Vertebrates From An Area Of Cretaceous Rock Formations, In Southeastern Morocco, Called The Kem Kem Group.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Largest Siphonophore Apolemia, In The World, During An Expedition To The Ningaloo Canyons, Off Western Coast Of Australia. Siphonophore Are String-Like Creatures, Made Up Of Interconnected Clones, Each Clone Specialized To A Particular Task. The Outer Ring Diameter Of This Creature Is Estimated At 49 Ft.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Oldest (~555 Myrs Old) Fossil Of A Worm-Like Animal, Called Ikaria Wariootia, Which’s Probably The Oldest Ancestor To Almost Every Living Animal Today. The Animal, ~The Size Of A Rice Grain, Discovered In Australia, Is Said To Be The Earliest Bilaterian Animal (2 Symmetrical Sides With A Mouth And Anus).

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Vampire Bats, According To Researchers, Build Long Bonding Relationship To Survive, E.G, Starvation By Regurgitating Digested Blood Meal To Share With Another Vampire Bat, As If It Was An Offspring. This Is Because Finding Blood Meal Can Be Difficult. This Strategy Could Be Risky, For The Givers, If Their Gesture Is Not Reciprocated.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Smallest Known Dinosaur, Called Oculudentavis Khaungraae, In A 99-Myr-Old Amber From Myanmar. The Dinosaur, About A Bee Hummingbird Size (The Tiniest Living Bird), Could Shed Light On, E.G., Small Birds Evolution From Dinosaurs, And The Small Animals That Existed During The Time Of The Dinosaurs.

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Saudi Arabia State-Owned Oil Giant Saudi Aramco Sold The Biggest Shares To Date In The World, Raising A Record $25.6bn (£19.4bn) In Its Initial Public Offering (IPO) In Riyadh. This Surpasses That Of China’s Alibaba, Which Raised $25bn In 2014 In New York. Saudi Aramco IPO Will Value The Company At $1.7tn When Trading Begins.

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