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A Trove of Sea Cow Fossils in Qatar Reveals a New Species That Munched on Seagrass 21 Million Years Ago

The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...

A Lost Sea Cow World Resurfaces Beneath Qatar’s Desert

A massive fossil site in Qatar has uncovered the world’s richest sea cow bonebed and a new species, Salwasiren qatarensis.
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A Deep-Sea Mining Test Carved Up The Seabed. Three Years On, We're Seeing Devastating Impacts

The payoff could be immense, but so could the damage. A growing body of evidence is showing that deep-sea mining could be ...
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Brutal lion attack 6,200 years ago severely injured teenager — but somehow he survived, skeleton found in Bulgaria reveals

Extremely rare evidence of a lion attack on a teenage boy's remains suggests the teenager survived the initial trauma but ...