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Greta Thunberg Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Personal Birth date: January 3, 2003 Birth place: Stockholm, Sweden Birth name: Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg Father: Svante Thunberg, actor Mother: Malena Ernman, opera singer Other Facts Her name is pronounced grAY-tah tOOn-bairk. Has spoken openly about living

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Mysterious altar found in ancient Mayan city contains bodies – and wasn’t made by the Maya

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics of the time. Despite finding the altar in Tikal, a ruined Mayan city situated in modern Guatemala, archaeologists believe it wasn’t

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Shown here are two of three wolves genetically edited by scientists to have traits of a dire wolf

Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf

CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences. Colossal scientists have created three dire wolf pups by using ancient DNA, cloning and gene-editing technology to alter the genes of

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Major steel project in JD Vance’s hometown on a list of Trump cuts to manufacturing industry

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s America-first economic agenda is reinvigorating the manufacturing industry. But his administration is planning to slash a key program that invests in some of the biggest manufacturing industries in the US, including in Vice President JD Vance’s hometown in the heart of the Rust

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Herbivorous sauropods and carnivorous megalosaurs would have moved around the same lagoon.

Footprints show giant carnivorous dinosaurs and their plant-eating prey drank from same Scottish watering hole

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what is now Scotland, new research suggests. Despite the fact that the carnivorous megalosaurs would have hunted the long-necked sauropods 167 million years ago, newly identified footprints show that both types

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