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Geologists drilled through 2,860 feet of Antarctic ice shelf hoping to bring up mud and their camera found sponges living on a boulder in total darkness, and the team could not ...

Antarctic ice shelf drilling 2,860 feet down hit a boulder covered in sponges 162 miles from open water, and the team could not say what they eat.
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Gravel workers in Austria reported a heap of rusty metal that could have ended up as scrap, and its 500 Iron Age iron bars probably went down in a Danube shipwreck

Iron Age iron bars from an Austrian gravel pit, at least 500 of them, form Europe's largest trove and likely sank in a Danube ...
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Seychelles now has more giant tortoises on a single remote atoll than people in the whole country, almost 183,000, and the new count finally accounts for the animals s…

Giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll number almost 183,000, more than all the people in Seychelles, after a new count corrected ...
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A man reported a carved stone on his land in Egypt, and archaeologists dug up the head of a Ramses II statue once about 28 feet tall and a second royal face awaiting …

Ramses II statue head found in Egypt's Nile Delta measures 5 feet 3 inches, and officials estimate the full monument once ...