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A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most mysterious fossils ever found. A 47-million-year-old plant fossil, first unearthed in Utah’s Green River Formation ...

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THE lives of endangered newts are being threatened by an alien plant which has taken over their habitat. Conservation workers are desperately trying to rid Stryt Las Country Park in Johnstown near ...