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Dead blue whale was possibly victim of boat collision: biologists conclude

The dead blue whale that washed ashore at a beach near San Francisco earlier this week was possibly a victim of boat collision/accident, a team of biologists who conducted necropsy on the carcass concluded.

The roughly 65-foot carcass washed ashore at the Westmoor Beach near Daisaku Ikeda Canyon in Daly City last Wednesday. A beachgoer reported it to local wildlife officials at just after noon that day.

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SpaceX still investigating Falcon 9 rocket explosion

Elon Musk-led Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is still investigating the explosion of its Falcon 9 rocket to pin point the glitch to prevent any such devastating accident in the future.

The private-sector space firm’s Falcon 9 rocket ended in an explosion soon after its launch at Cape Canaveral launch pad in early September. The company’s experts are reportedly examining the explosion from all angles, including sabotage implications. Some reports suggested that SpaceX’s rival firm, the United Launch Alliance (ULA), might have something to do with the explosion.

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Climate change responsible for extreme winters in the U.S. & UK: researchers say

Intensely chilly winters in the United States and Britain may be an outcome of indirect effects of climate change, according to a new study by University of Sheffield researchers.

The research team led by Prof. Edward Hanna of University of Sheffield found that increasing global temperatures are increasingly warming the Arctic, which is influencing the high-altitude corridor of fast-moving air called jet stream, causing severe cold snaps.

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Hexagon on Saturn’s North Pole mysteriously changed color: NASA

American space agency NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has noticed that the giant hexagon surrounding Saturn’s North Pole has changed color.

Created by a semi-permanent hurricane located at the north pole of the planet, the massive six-sided cloud pattern has been known to scientists since the Voyager missions in the early 1980s.

The Cassini probe, which has been orbiting Saturn since the year of 2004, has extensively studied the hexagon. A recent footage sent back to earth by the probe showed that the hexagon has changed its color from blue to gold.

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Researchers find how dinosaurs moved from South America to Australia

The discovery of two fossilized dinosaur skeletons in Queensland is expected to help researchers figure out how did these extinct enormous beasts moved from South America to Australia.

According to a new study, which published this week in Scientific Reports, both sets of dinosaur fossils belong to titanosaurs, a sort of dinosaur that roamed Australia nearly 95 million years ago.

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Alaska’s Denali National Park was once home to dinosaurs

Alaska's Denali National Park, which is quite popular among nature lovers for the tallest mountain of North America and a variety of wild animals, was once home to dinosaurs.

The National Park Service announced on Wednesday that the fossilized bones that were unearthed during a July 2016 expedition at the part belonged to dinosaurs. The expedition was conducted by a team of paleontologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the National Park Service.

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Bobcat population growing steadily in New Hampshire

The population of bobcats in New Hampshire has been growing steadily for the last few decades, leaving biologists scratching their heads over the large felines' unexpected comeback.

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Scientists excited about potentially habitable Proxima B

The discovery of Proxima B by a team of astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) toward the end of August promptly attracted attention of the global scientific community, mainly because the exoplanet is believed to be habitable.

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