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Most Automakers Only Offer Cars’ Batteries Warranties Ranging From 60,000 to 150,000 Miles Over A 3 To 8-Year Period. But This Chinese Car Battery-Maker, Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), Says That It Is Ready To Produce Batteries That Can Power A Vehicle For 1.2 Million Miles Across The Course Of A 16-Year Lifespan. Cool!

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Researchers Have Discovered That The Pinkest Flamingos, Both Male And Female, Are More Aggressive Than Their Paler Rivals And Tend To Push Them Around When Fighting Over Food. And The Birds Tend To Fight More When Food Is Available In A More Confined Area Such As A Bowl. Their Pink Color Comes From Carotenoids In Their Food.

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A New Study Is Indicating That Sea Snakes Have Been Relatively Rapidly Adapting Their Vision, Over Less Than 15 Million Years, Which Is Truly Astonishing When Compared To How Other Species Adapt. Sea Snakes Evolve Their Vision So That They Can Adapt To Changing Underwater Light Conditions And Still See Their Prey Deep Underwater.

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Researchers, Based On The Best-Preserved Dinosaur Stomach Ever Found To Date, Were Able To Determine The Dinosaur’s Actual Preserved Stomach Contents, Which Is Rare. The Dinosaur, A Nodosaur, Found In 2011, In Alberta, Canada, Became Mummified ~110 Myrs Ago After Enjoying One Last Meal Of Plants With Favoritism For Ferns.

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The First Dog To Test Positive For The Coronavirus In The USA Is A Pet German Shepherd In New York. This Contradicts The Earlier Report That A North Carolina Pug Was The First To Contract The Virus after Officials From The United States Department Of Agriculture Later Confirmed That They Were Unable To Verify Infection In Winston The Pug.

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Researchers May Have Discovered, In A Sedimentary Rock Called The Wulongqing Formation In Yunnan, China, The Oldest Parasite Stuck To Its Host Some 510 Million Years Ago. The Tube-like Shaped Parasites, Called Neobolus Wulongqingensis, Are Said To Have Exhibited kleptoparasitism, Where They Steal Food From The Host Brachiopods, A Filter Feeder.

Scientists Using LiDAR Aerial Remote-Sensing Have Discovered The Oldest and Largest Structure Built By Ancient Mayans, Btw 1,000 and 800 BC, In Mexico’s Tabasco State. The Rectangular Elevated Structure, In Volume, Is Said To Be Bigger Than Egypt’s Pyramid Of Giza Built 1.5Kyrs Earlier. The Site Is Speculated To Be Used For Mass Rituals.

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The Fossil Of The Earliest Known Land Animal, 425 Myrs Old, May Has Been Discovered In Scotland. The Fossil, Called Kampecaris Obanensis (KO), About 2.5cm Long, Resembles Modern Day Millipedes, Though Not Ancestral. KO May Be The Oldest Animal From Fossil Records, But The Living Soil Warm Are Believed To Be Older, 450 Myrs Old, Than It.

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Decades Later, After The 1960s Archaeological Excavations At Tel Arad, Around 60km (35 miles) South Of Jerusalem, Which Led To The Discovery Of Eighth-Century BC Temple, Researchers May Have Found, In The Temple, The First Proof For The Use Of Hallucinogens, Marijuana, As Part Of Ancient Jewish Religion. Hmm!

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For The First Time, The Fossil Of A Flying Reptile, An Unusual Group Of Pterodactyls Known As Tapejarids, Which Existed In China And Brazil, Has Been Found On The Largest Island In England, Isle Of Wight. The Fossil, Named Wightia Declivirostris, Adds To Diversity Of Prehistoric Reptiles And Dinosaurs Found On The Island.

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An Octopus Has Been Spotted At The Depth Of ~7,000m In The Java Trench Of The Indian Ocean, Making It The World’s Deepest Octopus. The Octopus, A “Dumbo” Species, Is Said To Have Surpassed Previous Sighting At 5,145m. This Discovery Indicates That Octopus Can Find Potentially Suitable Habitat Across At Least 99% Of The Global Seafloor.

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The World’s Largest All-Electric Powered Aircraft Completed Its First Flight On Thursday, 5/28/2002. The Aircraft, Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, Took Off From Moses Lake, Washington, With A 750-Horsepower All-Electric Motor Built By The Company MagniX. This Innovation Is Said To Be A Step In Curbing Aircraft Operational Cost And Air Pollution.

Marie Cau, Age 50, Has Become The First Transgender Mayor In French History. She Won The Election During France’s Local Elections On March 15th, 2020, Becoming The Mayor In The Village Of Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes, Which Is In Northern France. Congrats, Cau, For Achieving Such A Feat And For Also Making History.

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The First Human Trial, On 45 People, By The US Biotech Firm Moderna, Is Indicating Positive Results, As Their COVID-19 Vaccine Triggered An Immune Response In People And Protected Mice From Lung Infections With The Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The Company Plans To Press On With Further Trials With 600 People Shortly. Cool!

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Researchers Have Stumbled Upon A Find That Bumble Bees Make Holes In Leaves Of Plant To Force Than To Flower Early. And That The Hungrier The Bees Are The More Holes They Make. This Process Is Said To, For Example, Reduce Flowering Time From An Average Of 33 Days To 17 Days. Understanding This Process Would Be Beneficial To Horticulturist.

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If You Are Like Me Who Has Been Obsessively Wiping Down Surfaces Like Doorknobs, Groceries, And Packages To Protect Against The Coronavirus, Well, The CDC, Contrary To Previous Finds, Is Saying To Ease Off As Coronavirus Only Easily Spread Between Humans Who Are Within 6 Feet. However, Though, I Will Not Stop Wipping Down Those Surfaces.

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The Oldest Evidence That Supports An East Asian Ancestry For Native Americans May Have Been Found In Russia. The Evidence Is The 14,000-Year-Old Tooth Of A Man Who Lived 4500 Kilometers from Beringia. This Find, In addition To Previous Finds, Indicates That Native American Ancestors Occupied A Vast Region Of Northeastern Eurasia.

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Some Bees, Like The European Honeybees, Fend Off Hornets By Stinging Them. While Other Bees, Like The Japanese Honeybees Swarm The Hornet, Working Together, By Vibration, To Generate Heat Of About 115 Degrees, Which Is Hot Enough To Cook The Hornet. Asian Giant Hornet Carries A Rigid Exoskeleton That Makes Bee Stings Ineffective. Cool!

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The Fossil Of One Of The Last Flesh-Eating Dinosaurs, A Type Of Megaraptor, May Have Been Discovered By Paleontologist In Argentina. The 70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Is Said To Be 10 Meters In Length. And The Most Prominent Thing About This Dinosaur Is That The Thumb Ends In A Claw, Which Is Approximately 40 Centimeters In Length.

A 4-Year-Old Llama Named Winter, In Belgium, May Be Very Important In The Fight Against Coronavirus. This Was Stated After It Was Discovered That The Antibodies From Winter, Which Previously Neutralized ASARS And MERS, Are Now The First To Kill Coronavirus In Lab Experiments. Llamas, As Test Animals., Have Antibodies Similar To Humans.

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