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Why do grass-eating dinosaurs have long necks?
Archeology

Why do grass-eating dinosaurs have long necks?

The act of swallowing food is considered to be the cause of herbivore dinosaurs with large bodies with long necks and small heads. That is the conclusion of German scien…

December 17, 2018
The one who swallowed tyrants
Archeology

The one who swallowed tyrants

Fossil hunter Kevan Sheehan, 40, recently found pieces of skull of a Pliosaur at the coast of Dorset County, England.

December 17, 2018
The snake is as long as a bus
Archeology

The snake is as long as a bus

Scientists have found the fossil of the world's largest snake ever, the equivalent of a bus.

December 17, 2018
Black planet 'swallowed' 94% of light
Space science

Black planet 'swallowed' 94% of light

The Hubble Space Telescope of NASA discovered the strange planet WASP-12b is almost completely black, because it absorbs 94% of the light shining on the surface.

December 17, 2018
The original gold smelter in the universe
Space science

The original gold smelter in the universe

Neutron stars are the most dense star in the universe. It is estimated that only a scoop of neutron star's surface matter weighs three billion tons, 900 times the mass o…

December 17, 2018
Deadly giant stars swallow their companions
Space science

Deadly giant stars swallow their companions

The star Betelgeuse 10 million years old with a diameter of more than 1.3 billion kilometers may have swallowed a companion mass with the mass of the Sun.

December 17, 2018