51 h. ago Dead elephants and feral sea lions: how poisonous algal blooms harm the planet

As the Earth heats up, the amount of algae in our waterways is rapidly increasing, transforming the colour of lakes and killing entire ecosystemsBefore the elephants collapsed, they walked in aimless circles. Some fell head first, dying where they stood moments earlier; their carcasses scattered near watering holes across the Okavango delta. The unexplained deaths in May 2020 alarmed conservationists. By July, at least 350 elephants had died and nobody knew why.“The animals all had their tusks, so poaching was unlikely. A lot of them had obviously died relatively suddenly: they had dropped on to their sternums, which was indicating a sudden loss of muscle function or neural capacity,” says Niall McCann, director of the conservation group National Park Rescue. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Six dead after plane plunges into sea after San Diego takeoff

The twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed soon after taking off in San Diego, with six people confirmed dead, the Federal Aviation Administration said, with wreckage found five miles out to sea.

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64 h. ago San Diego plane crash: Six dead in takeoff horror mapped as wreckage litters sea

The twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed shortly after taking off in San Diego, with six people confirmed dead, the Federal Aviation Administration said, with wreckage found five miles out to sea

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2 d. ago 'Greatest religious discovery since Dead Sea Scrolls' found under prison

An ancient mosaic unearthed from beneath the floor of an Israeli prison is being hailed as the "greatest religious discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls" - and the earliest known attestation of Jesus as God

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3 d. ago Religious history 'rewritten' with 'greatest discovery since Dead Sea Scrolls'

The Megiddo Mosaic, discovered by an inmate at Megiddo prison in northern Israel, has been hailed as "the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls" by experts

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7 d. ago Dead Sea Scrolls mystery deepens as AI finds manuscripts to be much older than thought

Findings also impact our understanding of ancient political developments in Eastern Mediterranean

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7 d. ago Many of Dead Sea scrolls may be older than thought, experts say

Researchers enlisted help of AI along with radiocarbon dating to produce new insights into ancient textsMany of the Dead Sea scrolls could be older than previously thought, with some biblical texts dating from the time of their original authors, researchers say.The first of the ancient scrolls were discovered in the caves of Qumran in the Judean desert by Bedouin shepherds in the mid-20th century. The manuscripts range from legal documents to parts of the Hebrew Bible, and are thought to date from around the third century BCE to the second century CE. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jesus Christ was a 'hallucinogenic mushroom' rather than man, bizarre theory claims

Top boffin John Marco Allegro backed the bizarre claim that Jesus wasn’t a bloke, but a magic mushroom, during the late 1960s after he became one of the first scholars to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls

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3 w. ago Dead rats litter beach and float in sea at Spanish holiday hotspot

A heavy downpour caused sewers to overflow near Alicante's Coco and Urbanova beaches, which in turn caused the bodies of rats to bob around in the water off the shoreline

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3 w. ago Fishermen are baffled as dead TIGER is spotted floating in the sea

Disturbing footage taken from the boat in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Vladivostok on Sunday shows the rare adult Amur tiger floating past their vessel.

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