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Serbia’s Largest-Ever Protest Saw 275,000-325,000 People Rally In Belgrade On 3/15/25, With The Possibility Of A Higher Turnout. Sparked By The Novi Sad Station Collapse That Killed 15, Protesters Blame Corruption And Demand Accountability. Students Lead Calls For Transparency And Justice, Amid Growing Anger Against President Vucic’s Govt.

The World’s Most Expensive Fossil And Also The Most Complete Stegosaurus Skeleton Ever Found, Named Apex, Will Be On Display At The American Museum Of Natural History In New York For The Next 4 Years. This 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil, Which Spans 11 Feet (3.3 Meters) Tall And 27 Feet (8.2 Meters) Nose To Tail Was Bought For $44.6 Million.

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Scientists Have Discovered Terastiodontosaurus Marcelosanchezi, The Largest Known Worm Lizard, From Fossils In Tunisia. This Reptile, Over 3Ft Long & 50 Myr-Old, Had Strong Jaws & Fed On Snails. Unlike Modern Burrowers, It Likely Lived On The Surface. It’s Closely Related To The Checkerboard Worm Lizard, Both Of The Trogonophids Family.

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A Researcher, In Queensland, Australia, Has Discovered A Potentially World’s Hairiest Beetle, Excastra Albopilosa, In Dec., 2021. With Long Fluffy White Hairs, It’s Believed To Mimic Fungus-Infected Insects, A Possible Deterrent To Predators. This cm-Long Longhorn Beetle Is Said To Be Of A New Genus, And Only One Specimen Has Been Found.

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A Very Rare Insect, The Giant Lacewing, Or Polystoechotes Punctata, Of The Jurassic Era, Has Been Spotted For The First Time Since It Vanished In The 1950s From E. North America. The Bug, Found In 2012 At An Arkansas Walmart, Was Identified In 2022. Factors Like Pollution & Artificial Light Are Said To Have Caused Its Disappearance.

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Elon Musk Is Now the First Person In The World To Lose $200 Billion, After His Company, Tesla, Stocks Plunged 65%, In 2022, Due To Increasing Competition From Electric Automakers. This Loss Has Made Him The Second Richest Person In The World, Behind LVMH Chairman, Bernard Arnault. Musk Had A Peak Net Worth Of $340 Billion In Nov. 2021.

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Amazon Is Now The First Publicly Traded Company In The World To Lose $1 Trillion Dollars In Market Value, After Its Market Value Shrunk From $1.88 Trillion To $879 Billion. The Loss Is Attributed To These Factors: Disappointing Earnings, Soaring Inflation, A Slumping Economy, Raising Interest Rates, And Tightening Monetary Policies.

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An Armoured Dinosaur From The Cretaceous, Named Jakapil kaniukura, Has For The First Time Been Discovered, By Palaeontologists, In Southern Argentina. The Creature, Part Of The Thyreophoran Dinosaur Group That Includes Stegosaurus, Is Said To Be The Size Of An Average House Cat. And Is Speculated To Have Walked Upright On Its Back Legs.

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Saudi Aramco, On 5/11/22, Became The World’s Most Valuable Company When Its Market Valuation Of $2.43 Trillion Surpassed Apple’s $2.37 Trillion. This Overthrow Comes As Energy Stocks Continue To Rise, With Investors Selling Off Shares In Several Industrial Sectors, E.g., In Technology. Apple Surpassed Saudi Aramco In Valuation In 2020.

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Stan, The World’s Most Complete Tyrannosaurus Rex Skeleton, And Also The Most Expensive Fossil In The World, Now Has A New Home At The New Museum Of Natural History, Which Is Expected To Open In 2025 In Abu Dhabi. Stan, A 67 Million-Year-Old T. Rex That Is 39-Foot-Long (11.7-Meter-Long), Was Bought For $31.8 Million In 2020.

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