A farmer in Great Britain has made an amazing discovery on his property. He found a fossilized fish(thought to be a Pachycormus) so very well preserved that it still looks like a fish. Scientists say that about 183 million years ago, his farmland was part of a tropical ocean. When scientists came to the site, many additional bones, including two ichthyosaurs were also unearthed.

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Researchers have developed eyeglasses(called XRAI Glass) which can do a remarkable thing for those who are deaf. The glasses can instantly project audio into captions onto the lenses. Pretty amazing!

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North American Monarch butterflies are in trouble. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the population of monarchs has dropped so much that they have listed the butterfly on the endangered list. Just in the past 10 years, it is estimated their numbers have gone down 70%. A source of food for many North American birds, the monarchs are important pollinators helping to grow our different crops. Pesticides, loss of habitat and climate change are the cause for the dwindling number of these beautiful orange and black butterflies.

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Jane Goodall,famed primatologist, has just been recognized with a Barbie doll! Part of their series , Inspiring Women, Goodall's doll is made from recycled plastic and has Goodall’s blond hair(in a ponytail). Wearing khaki shorts and shirt, the likeness Barbie doll also is wearing binoculars and is holding a notebook. Goodall has helped to change the attitudes people had toward animals, specifically the chimpanzee. Her method of studying chimpanzees involved living amongst them, for over 55 years. She is also known as an anthropologist, humanitarian and writer. She has worked for better treatment of animals in zoos and protection of the habitat of animals in the wild.

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This week, a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune(educator, journalist, civil rights advocate),replaced a statue of a Confederate general in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. The hall has 100 statues, two from each of the states.Representing the state of Florida, Bethune's statue is the first African American(male or female) honored in the hall. Note:There are other statues for the contributions of African Americans(Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr., but they are not in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Building.

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Want to buy your very own dinosaur? A Gorgosaurus (a relative to the T-Rex)and estimated to be 76 million years old is for sale. It is the only such dinosaur skeleton that will be sold to a private owner and not go into a museum. Gorgosaurus once roamed the earth in what is now Canada and the western USA and this particular skeleton was found in Montana in 2018.There aren’t many such skeletons so it is believed that the Gorgosaurus (meaning fierce or terrifying lizard) will be pretty expensive, at least $5 million dollars or more. You will need a LARGE room to display your purchase as the Gorgosaurus is 10 ft.tall and 22 ft.long! Do you think a dinosaur skeleton should be auctioned to a private collector or do you think such a discovery should be in a museum for others to see? Read more:Gorgosaurus

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The Mayflower sailed again this summer and just arrived at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, having left England on April 29th. The 50 ft. replica of the ship that brought 102 Pilgrims over from Plymouth, England, in 1620, retraced the similar 3500 mile journey. This time, instead of passengers, the ship was powered by robotics and had no crew. Along the way, the autonomous ship collected information about microplastics pollution, whales and other scientific studies. It is thought to be the largest ship to make a sailing across the Atlantic with only robotic power.

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Scientists say a Cambodian fisherman may have caught the world's largest freshwater fish. Measuring 13 ft.long, the stingray topped the scale at 661 pounds! Nicknamed,"Boramy" or "full moon"", the fish was caught in the Mekong River. The stingray was released BACK into the river after first being given a tag so its behavior can be monitored.

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The world's oldest tree, called "Methuselah"", in California, has competition. The Great Basin bristlecone pine was holding the record of about 4800 years old. Now, scientists have found a tree in the Chilean Andes, called "Gran Abuelo"(Spanish for Great Grandfather) which is estimated to be 5400 years old. An alerce tree, scientists used a computer modeling program to date the tree. Using dendrochronology, counting the tree's rings, which is the usual method of determining the age of a tree, is currently being done to determine which tree is truly the OLDEST tree in the world.

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A farmer in Great Britain has made an amazing discovery on his property. He found a fossilized fish(thought to be a Pachycormus) so very well preserved that it still looks like a fish. Scientists say that about 183 million years ago, his farmland was part of a tropical ocean. When scientists came to the site, many additional bones, including two ichthyosaurs were also unearthed. Photograph from Dailymail Researchers have developed eyeglasses(called XRAI Glass) which can do a remarkable thing for those who are deaf. The glasses can instantly project audio into captions onto the lenses. Pretty amazing! Photograph from Dailymail

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