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Africa: Paleontologists Uncover a New Spinosaurus Species By Following a Clue From a Decades-Old Book Into the Sahara Desert

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago014 mins

My fixation on a small, desolate locale in the heart of the Sahara Desert started with a single line buried in a 630-page tome in French about the rocks of the central Sahara: “Dent de Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret,” which translates to “tooth of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus Depéret” – “Depéret” refers to the scientist who originally named…

Bondi Beach suspects reportedly trained in the Philippines, where there’s a decades-old Islamist insurgency

eriinfo.com4 months ago010 mins

The father and son suspects in the terror attack on Jewish people gathered for a Hanukkah event in Bondi Beach, Australia, spent most of November in the Philippines, police said Tuesday. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, meanwhile, that the attack was “motivated by ISIS ideology.” New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon told reporters…