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Elephant species lost to science since 1968 rediscovered

A small elephant species species that has been lost to science for more than half a century has reappeared in the Horn of Africa, according to new research. The Somali sengi, a monogamous animal similar to porcupines, elephants and manatees, but only a few inches long, has not been observed …

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This is when and how the universe is expected to end

It is not expected to happen at any moment, but one scientist has calculated when the universe will end. The study, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, notes that sometimes in the “next few trillion years”, when the universe is dead as we know it, stars …

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