Within weeks of being sworn in to helm the FHFA, which oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Pulte shattered norms by quickly jettisoning executives and policies.
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Shelby Talcott,
semafor.com,
2 June 2026
The timing of the rule changes is auspicious for the tech giants.
In 2022, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled 5–2 that elephants have no constitutional rights and that Happy should not be released pursuant to habeas corpus, per the NYT.
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
28 May 2026
There is an old joke involving the use of a pea shooter or pea gun to try to take down an elephant.
The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
In a twist of prehistoric irony, our ancestors’ hunting skills proved too effective, leading to the extinction of mammoths around 10,000 years ago—and mammoth-bone dwellings with them.
Twenty whales — 19 belugas and one killer whale — have died at Marineland since 2019, according to provincial government data obtained through freedom-of-information laws and official statements.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
While much research on animal communication focuses on large mammals thought to have relatively rich communication systems, such as primates and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), Birch said the judges try to cast a wide zoological net.
Navigating the Long Tau river requires these deep-sea leviathans to turn on a dime, making for some spectacular viewing.
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Loz Blain
May 14,
New Atlas,
14 May 2026
The biggest drag on European innovation and tech is a lack of domestic funding, not regulation, and the new rules are more likely to hurt tech leviathans whose size and network effects contribute to their addictive quality.
Some are composites assembled from multiple dinosaurs or replica bones to create the illusion of a more complete skeleton.
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
28 May 2026
Kank australis belongs to the unenlagiids, a family of small-to-medium theropod dinosaurs discovered across Late Cretaceous deposits in South America, Antarctica, Australia, and Madagascar.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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