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Researchers Identify World's Largest Scorpion That Roamed Earth 415 Million Years Ago
Researchers Identify World's Largest Scorpion That Roamed Earth 415 Million Years Ago
Authored by Maria Mocerino via Interesting Engineering,
The University of Manchester has discovered that the world's largest scorpion, which lived 415 million years ago, was hiding in the museum's collection for 150 years.
Since the 1870s, researchers have debated the identity of the strange fossil remains lurking in the Manchester archives. They possessed tiny fragments recovered from sites in England and Wales that puzzled them, but they could not piece them together. Was it a large woodlouse-crustacean?
Life reconstruction of Praearcturus...
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Authored by Monica Showalter via AmericanThinker.org,
How did wokeism happen?
A French intellectual, who goes by Brivael Le Pogam on X, has written a tightly focused and brief explanation of it worthy of Eric Hoffer, putting his finger on the thinking of French philospher-historian Michel Foucault, French philosopher Jacques Derrida, and French philospher-literary critic Gilles Deleuze, the first of whom claimed there was no such thing as truth, just power relationships, the second of whom claimed truth was malleable, and the...
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