While analyzing over 300 skeletal remains excavated in northwestern Rome, a team of paleontologists found that the bones belong to a gigantic ancestor of today’s elephant.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
8 Oct. 2025
His aristocratic tastes are reflected in his various building projects, the remains of which have been excavated.
Things aren’t about to get easier, and the Sabres have already dug themselves a hole.
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Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
During the project, excavators removed about eight billion pounds of rock for DigIndy’s tunnels, which total about 28 miles in length and were dug 250 feet underground.
The presiding minister elected not to deliver a funeral sermon; dirt was shoveled on top of the mahogany box only three minutes after the service began.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
Some hikers shoveled snow out of their tents amid the blizzard, while others waded in a line through the snowstorm in poor visibility, social media videos verified by NBC News showed.
Today, almost three quarters of the world's rare earth minerals, used in everything from smartphones to fighter jets, are mined in China, which processes 90% of the metals, according to Bank of America analysts.
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Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
In a video released by the IDF, another four schools roughly two miles north of these were mined and destroyed, also in August.
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