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Massive, metal-encrusted megalodon teeth litter deep ocean floor

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NOAA's Cook Islands expedition has returned multiple specimens from the extinct giants. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Fossilized megalodon teeth absorb rare earth elements and minerals from the ocean waters. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


How to watch a live deep-sea exploration in the Pacific

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NOAA is offering nearly daily access to its ongoing exploration near the Cook Islands. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. This carnivorous sponge was one of several seen during Dive 09 of the 2026 Cook Islands ROV Exploration cruise. Unlike fitler feeding sponges, carnivorous sponges prey on animals such as small crustaceans that they capture from the water column. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week.


The 10 longest airplane flights on Earth

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These ultra-long commercial flights are becoming more common thanks to design innovations and fuel capacity. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. At 24 hours and 24 minutes of flight time, Project Sunrise broke the old record for longest-ever flight by a commercial-style aircraft. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


40-foot-long Kronosaurus ate a 23-foot-long marine reptile who ate a pterosaur, fossil shows

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Amateur fossil hunters helped discover evidence of a Cretaceous Era food chain in the Australian Outback. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. In the Eromanga Sea, it was eat or be eaten. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


When the AI bubble bursts, what will Australia do with the tools it built? One man thinks he has the answer

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He says society will have to find a way to recover skills lost to AI once the bubble bursts. He says society will have to find a way to recover skills lost to AI once the bubble bursts. When the AI bubble bursts, what will Australia do with the tools it built? W hen the AI bubble bursts, executives who enthusiastically replaced their staff with AI tools will learn that it takes a "really long time" to replace those lost skills, says Cory Doctorow, a science fiction author and journalist. In his new book, the Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, the man who coined the word "enshittification" says the question isn't "Are we in an AI bubble?" but "When will the bubble burst?" "The thing about bubbles is that after they burst, we look back and we say, 'Well, obviously that was the weak link,'" he says.


Orcas smash dead sunfish into bite-sized pieces

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Scientists in the Gulf of California caught this explosive never-before-seen feeding method on camera. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Orca off the North Island of New Zealand who ate fish caught by deep sea fisherman, as the lines were brought up from the deep. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The answer has global reach

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OpenAI and Anthropic lost billions in predicted value after being shown up by a Chinese startup. OpenAI and Anthropic lost billions in predicted value after being shown up by a Chinese startup. Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in June Top US AI developers Anthropic and OpenAI cheered when Australia announced it would set new AI rules. Big tech celebrating limits on their Silicon Valley VC-funded free-for-all might seem counterintuitive but there's a much broader play than just what happens in one relatively small market.


Australian cave home to 25,000 years of healing--and curses

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Ancient burnt grass reveals millennia of spiritual rituals inside Cloggs Cave. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . The entry into the limestone cavern known as Cloggs Cave resembles a massive cathedral door.


Man of his word: Pope Leo speeches declared human-authored by Australian AI detection tool

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A collection of speeches and writings by Pope Leo XIV has been certified by Australian company Proudly Human as having been written by people, not AI. A collection of speeches and writings by Pope Leo XIV has been certified by Australian company Proudly Human as having been written by people, not AI. A collection of speeches and writings by Pope Leo XIV has been certified as human-authored less than two months after Leo declared artificial intelligence the greatest threat to humanity. Proudly Human, the Australian company spearheaded by Australia's former chief scientist, Dr Alan Finkel, undertook a review of a collection of writings and speeches by the pope, in collaboration with the publisher, the Australian Catholic University and cardinals in the Vatican . Maps of Hope was published in the same week in May that Leo's first encyclical,, warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence and the risks of the power of the technology being concentrated in the hands of a few .


Nine to axe 30 jobs at the Age and SMH due to 'extreme' AI disruption

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Nine's managing director of publishing, Tory Maguire, told staff the cuts at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age come amid an AI-based disruption to the industry. Nine's managing director of publishing, Tory Maguire, told staff the cuts at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age come amid an AI-based disruption to the industry. Staff told positions will be cut via voluntary and targeted redundancies as part of'evolution' Australia's biggest media company, Nine Entertainment, has blamed the "extreme state of disruption" from AI for its decision to cut another 30 newsroom jobs at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. On Tuesday, the managing director of publishing, Tory Maguire, told staff the company was looking to cut "around 30" positions, made up of voluntary and targeted redundancies. Maguire said the exercise was not simply a matter of cutting costs, but was an "evolution" to adapt to structural change.