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A 100 million-year-old fossil has been discovered by a 4-year-old boy hidden beneath the ground, near a shopping center in Texas.

Wylie Brys and his father Tim Brys, who is a zoo keeper, discovered the fossil while searching for marine life remnants from the Jurassic period in September 2014.

When the kid spotted the fossil, near the shopping center development in Mansfield, Texas, he showed the animal bones to his father. This made Tim certain that it was something interesting. Mansfield is a suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex region.

A review by government and group of experts on permafrost carbon problem has been published in journal Nature.

The paper is an outcome of the Permafrost Carbon Network, which has studied changes in the Arctic for four years. The network consists of more than 200 scientists from 88 research institutions in 17 countries.

According to the researchers, frozen Arctic and sub-Arctic soil that melts from global warming will release significant amounts of carbon in the form of both carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.

This new source of greenhouse gas emissions could destabilize attempts to cut down on emissions from fossil fuels considerably. However, the researchers mentioned that this would not happen abruptly.

According to a new study, mountain gorillas are severely inbred. As per researchers, about 880 mountain gorillas are only left in the wild in just two areas.

The areas are Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and the Virunga mountains on the borders of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to experts, Mountain gorillas are among closest relatives of man.

For the study, blood samples of seven gorillas living in the forests of the Virunga volcanic mountain range have been taken by the researchers. It was found by the researchers that their close knit populations are suffering from inbreeding at a level that might lead to extinction. As per the experts, mountain gorillas inherit identical DNA segments from parents in about one-third of their genome.

Researchers have provided insight into the gigantic marine lizards known as Mosasaurs. The researchers at the University of Toronto and Yale University have also deciphered their breeding and birth. Published in the journal Palaeontology on April 10, the study has answered some long-held questions about the deadly creatures that were used to reside in waters of earth before going extinct 65 million years ago.

For the study, the researchers examined recently identified specimens of the ancient marine lizards at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

There was a time when South America was home of a number of ‘terror birds’. They ruled over the place for tens of millions of years before they went extinct about 2.5 million years ago. Now, researchers have found fossils of a new species of terror bird called Llallawavis scagliai. According to the researchers, the species of the bird was about 10 feet tall. They also said that the terror bird lived in Argentina about 3.5 million years ago.

Over 135,000 signatures have been gathered by an on the web community group, asking Nestlé to stop water bottling operations in California under the Arrowhead and Pure Life brands.

About 3 of 5 statewide water bottling operations have been operated by Nestlé in Southern California. If Nestlé does not discontinue, then the group, called Courage Campaign, will ask State Water Resources Control Board to get involved and shut the bottling operations.