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Scientists Discover Why Female Dinosaurs Laid Smaller Eggs

A team of researchers have discovered that though dinosaurs were the largest creatures to have ever walked on Earth, they did not lay the world's largest eggs. Both individual egg size and clutch size of sauropods, one of the largest group of dinosaurs were found to be a lot smaller than previously thought. Jun 14, 2014
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It Happens: Ganga Dussehra Record

Kanpur, June 13 (ANI): Hindu devotees in Kanpur city of India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday made an attempt to create a record by offering a 51,000 meter-long cloth to holy river Ganges to mark Hindu festival, 'Ganga Dussehra', which commemorates birth of the river on earth. The 51,000 meter-long cloth extends from Bramhavrat Ghat area at one end of Kanpur and touches Jajmau area at the city's other end and was organised by volunteers in collaboration with Kanpur's main shrine of Lord Shiv. Devout Hindus in Kanpur took a holy dip in the river Ganges, prayed for their ancestors and sought the blessings of the Hindu goddess Ganga to get rid of their sins. Priests performed traditional Hindu rituals and chanted hymns on the banks of the river. Women and girls offered prayers for the well being of their families. The first 10 days of the month of June are said to honour the presence of river Ganges in India. According to a myth, the Ganges was gifted to mankind in answer to the penance undertaken by King Bhagirath of the legendary Sagara dynasty. Bhagirath prayed for the Ganges to descend onto the earth to wash the ashes of his dead brothers to give them salvation. However, another event organiser, said the attempt is to make the new federal government of Prime Minister Jun 13, 2014
Vast Reservoir of Water Discovered Below the Earth's Surface 400 Miles Underneath the US [Wikimedia Commons/ Tiago Fioreze] (Representational Image)

Vast Reservoir of Water Discovered 400 Miles Beneath US

Scientists, after decades of investigation have uncovered a vast reservoir of water deep below the surface of Earth, 400 miles underneath the US. The massive reservoir is estimated to be three times the volume of all of the oceans on the surface of Earth. Jun 13, 2014
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Hidden Volcanoes Melt West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Though Antarctica is a land of ice, it has fire inside it as well, in the form of sub-glacial volcanoes. According to a new study, subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal areas are contributing to the glacial melt. Jun 12, 2014
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