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News Discovery   13 January 2016   China   South China  
<p>In China's mountainous south, geologists think they have discovered a new kind of explosive super landslide that gives no warning and jumps rivers in a single bound.</p> <p>At least six of what they are calling mass ejection landslides were triggered by ...
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News Discovery   22 October 2015   USA   Utah  
<p>"It's one of the weirdest turtles that ever lived."</p><p>That was the assessment of University of Texas at Austin doctoral student Joshua Lively, in a statement about a strange new species of turtle that had a pig-like nose and lived 76 million years ago.</p ...
News Discovery   30 June 2015   USA   Arkansas  
<p>One of the nation&rsquo;s most unusual tourist attractions is Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, which bills itself as the only diamond-producing site in the world where ordinary folks actually can dig for diamonds themselves &mdash; and keep whatever ...
News Discovery   24 May 2015   Nepal   Myagdi district  
<p>Thousands of panic-stricken villagers fled their homes fearing flash floods after an overnight landslide blocked a river in quake-hit Nepal&rsquo;s mountainous northwest, officials said Sunday.</p> <p>The landslide at around midnight sent mud and rocks ...
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