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In a collaboration with London’s Natural History Museum, Moscow’s State Darwin Museum and others, you can check out weird and wonderful ancient beasts like the Cambropachycope and introduce it to your cat. The app will show you the scale it’s rendering the 3D model in and let you drop it into a real-life scene to take a photo, video, or screen recording. The creatures are joined by a few other fun cultural additions such as being able to drop the Apollo 11 command module at scale into a space....

The fossils of at least 40 different species of shark and close relatives have been discovered in remote cave locations within the park since survey efforts started 10 months ago. The six previously undiscovered species include large predators and small bottom-feeders. The fossils could be more than 325 million years old, which is when the limestones of the Mammoth Cave System were formed, during the Mississippian Period of the Late Paleozoic Era....

Federal agencies, Nixon believes, should be used as weapons of political revenge. He wants the IRS to ““go after a couple of media people . . . Dan Schorr [then of CBS], Mary McGrory [then of The Washington Star] . . .’’ and the immigration service to investigate ““the wetback thing’’ at the Los Angeles Times. ““Otis Chandler,’’ Nixon says, naming the paper’s publisher, ““I want him checked out with regard to his gardener....

Blair suspected a trap and drew a line in the sand. On Aug. 31 he invited The Times of London in for an interview. He refused repeatedly–“at least eight times,” according to the paper–to say when he would step down. He told Labour Party leaders to “stop obsessing,” and let his frustration show. “Look, what is the difficulty here? … If you start laying down timetables, then what you do is you just provide for another endless bout of speculation, and the authority of the prime minister’s position becomes difficult in those circumstances....

What all of this means is that Bush isn’t done with his role as fundraiser in chief. While SMU and its supporters have promised to raise millions on behalf of the project, the grunt work will be on Bush. But he won’t be stuck doing $500-a head fundraisers, as he did during the 2006 campaign. Donations to the library foundation are unregulated and can be raised from anyone, including foreign donors....

Conti has been heavily linked with a move to San Siro after impressing for Atalanta last term. The full-back made 33 Serie A appearances as they finished fourth. How has Roma become Italy’s new supermarket? After such an impressive campaign, a host of players were expected to leave Bergamo and midfielder Franck Kessie has already joined Vincenzo Montella’s side. Conti looks set to join his former team-mate after arriving at Milan’s training ground to complete his switch, and he cannot wait to get going with the Rossoneri....

“Given the President’s latest actions I think impeachment is the right path forward,” Yang tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. “Asking foreign leaders for political help in return for aid and then suppressing your own agency’s inquiry is egregious. There have to be limits and Congress is right to act.” According to unnamed officials, Pelosi’s announcement will come after a closed-door meeting with the Democratic caucus. The House Speaker has previously been hesitant in impeachment talks but in recent days has appeared to change her mind after the emergence of the whistleblower scandal....

In his new book, Forward, the former Democratic presidential candidate wrote that he saw Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election as a nationwide cry for help and urged people not to dismiss his supporters. Although Trump lost to Joe Biden four years later, he earned a whopping 74 million votes, and Yang saw Trump’s increase in support from 2016 as a warning to Democrats. “It was likely that he might even have won if not for the coronavirus, which had killed 230,000 Americans by the time of the election,” Yang wrote....

Plus, we have our usual recommendations for you to check out. Shownotes In this week’s show, we look at: News You’ll Need a Pretty Beefy PC to Run Android Apps on Windows 11 Watch Out, Safari Users: Microsoft Edge Will Soon Take Over Tips Nintendo Is Discontinuing Support for the Wii U and 3DS eShop: What You Need to Know Sony Backtracks on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita Digital Store Closures What Is Video Game Preservation and Why Is It Important?...

His undefeated team was playing in prime time at home against a two-win, in-state rival that was missing three players in its secondary. Oh, and it was National Redhead Day. MORE: Top photos from Thursday’s game | Five things we learned from Bengals’ win Dalton and the Bengals capitalized with a 31-10 victory over the Browns on Thursday night at Paul Brown Stadium. Dalton threw for 234 yards and three touchdowns, each of which went to tight end Tyler Eifert....

A deal was struck between the two before the quiz began. If Andy Murray won, he would give Rashford a Wimbledon Centre Court ticket, and if the latter emerged victorious, he would give Murray a Box ticket for a Manchester United home game. How did the Andy Murray - Marcus Rashford ‘quiz’ transpire? In a football penalty shootout-styled quiz, it was Rashford who went first. Round 1 Rashford asked Murray how many goals the former scored against FC Midtjylland on his debut....

Asked whether he does parenting with the same level of “intensity and discipline” that he exhibits on the tennis court, Andy Murray disclosed that “unfortunately” he is not that hard on his kids. Andy Murray has four children with his wife Kim Sears, whom he married in April 2015. The three-time Grand Slam champion is a proud father of three daughters and a son, from one to six years old....

Think of 1010 as a sign that you’ll be rewarded for your hard spiritual or personal work. It could be a romantic, financial, or other exciting reward. Angel number 1010 asks you to be self-aware and appreciate your feelings of hope, independence, and self-guidance. Seeing 1010 could mean a new phase in your relationship, like getting engaged, moving in together, or having a child together, is on its way. 1010 is a sign that your true love is near....

The Los Angeles superstar and his wife are expecting the birth of their first child in August, and being asked to play baseball in the middle of a pandemic is a difficult concept to handle. To that end, Trout seems uncertain as to whether he’ll cleat up and play this year after speaking with reporters on Friday. MORE: Complete list of MLB players who have opted out for 2020...

Gillaspie is hitting .237/.276/.364 with three homers and 15 RBIs in 173 at bats. Wilk is 4-7 with a 5.52 in the PCL this season. He was DFA’d to make room on the 40-man roster for Gillaspie. The Angels expect to be without Freese for at least three weeks.

The species, Chemnitzion richteri, used an ambush strategy to feed, according to researchers in Germany. With its huge head and small body, the creature developed up to 300 million years ago in forests around eastern Germany. The new species was unearthed by scientists at an excavation site situated where a petrified forest had once been located. Chemnitz city official Ralph Burghart said: “The remains of the species were discovered at Frankenberger Road in Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf, right where the local fire station is situated today....

The site is the location of a famous necropolis in the Swiss town of Pully, which lies in the suburbs of the city of Lausanne in Vaud Canton, on the shores of Lake Geneva. The last discoveries reported in this district of Pully were made in 1984, according to state authorities. A team of experts was sent in to check on the site while new construction work was underway in the area....

City Planning Anyone who says New York looks more majestic than Istanbul certainly doesn’t have an eye for detail. Even though our modern cities are lined with skyscrapers and highly detailed road networks, they’re certainly nowhere close to ancient cities. The Indus valley civilization is the best example of advanced city planning in ancient era. Not only it was an architectural wonder, but had all modern amenities like aqueducts and sewage along with natural air conditioning....

L. Paul Bremer III, the top American civil administrator who had a large hand in picking the council, originally envisioned a simple advisory group–but the Iraqis argued for, and apparently won, a more authoritative, decision-making role for themselves. Now they’ve got it, at least on paper: the council will be able to appoint government ministers, run the de-Baathification campaign and start drafting a new constitution to pave the way for eventual elections....