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Newly discovered Australian beetle almost mistaken for bird poo

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What's red, black, and hairy all over? A new species of bug discovered in Australia, dubbed by some as a "punk beetle" for its shaggy white locks.

A Queensland researcher spotted the fluffy specimen by chance while camping and initially mistook it for bird poo.

"It's very unique. There are not many insects out there that have that trait," James Tweed told the BBC.

 

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Fossil of largest ever river dolphin found in Amazon

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Researchers have found the fossilised skull of the largest ever river dolphin. While found in the Peruvian Amazon, the ancient dolphin’s closest living relatives are in South Asia.

Pebanista yacuruna would have measured between 3 and 3.5 m. The skull of the extinct animal was found in 2018 along the Rio Napo near Peru’s border with Colombia, more than 1,000 km northeast of the capital Lima. It is described in a paper published in the journal Science Advances......

 

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93 million-year-old crocodile fossil discovered with baby dinosaur in its stomach

The fossil of a  93 million year-old crocodile was discovered by scientists in Queensland, Australia - and it had a baby dinosaur in its stomach. The archaeology experts dubbed the ancient creature Confractosuchus Sauroktonos, which means 'broken crocodile dinosaur killer'.

Gondwana Research's report says the huge crocodile could have grown to about 2.5m and may have died in a flood. The fossil is thought to be around 35 per cent preserved, with a "near-complete skull" and scary teeth still there for us to see.

 

 

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