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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — On the western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador, John L. Clark, a research botanist at Florida’s Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, happened upon what he calls a miracle. In an area of formerly lush cloud forest known as Centinela devastated by clearing, Clark spotted a tiny, 2-inch-high (5-centimeter) plant

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of the Kronosaurus Korner fossil museum in northwest Queensland, Australia, unearthed a number of fossilized bones in western Queensland in

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What would be the ultimate solution to the energy problems of an advanced civilization? Renowned British American physicist Freeman Dyson theorized it would be a shell made up of mirrors or solar panels that completely surrounds a star — harnessing all the energy it produces. “One should expect that,

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Shipwreck hunters have found the vessel Quest — once captained by renowned Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton — largely intact on the ocean floor, 15 nautical miles off the coast of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society has announced. Shackleton was aboard the famed exploration ship when he died of a

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other underground caverns. A long-held misconception is that the victims were often young and female — an impression that has

By Brian Patrick Flynn for HGTV Rustic-style decorating, whether year-round or holiday-based, is achieved through a heavy use of texture, neutral hues and natural materials. Incorporate modern, rustic elements into your holiday decor with ideas from designer Casey Noble. Mason Jar Lights Blogger Hannah Slaughter brings understated elegance to this disparate grouping of Mason jars and discarded

By Chris Lau, CNN A school teacher is presumed dead after he was attacked by a shark while surfing on Saturday, according to authorities, who’ve found fragments of a wetsuit and the suspected remains of his surfboard. Emergency services were called to reports of a shark attack at Walkers Rock Beach, on the west coast

By Bryan Mena, CNN US consumer sentiment worsened in May as Americans grew concerned about the economy’s direction and a potential default of the US government’s debt, according to a preliminary report from the University of Michigan Friday. The political impasse over raising the debt ceiling has dragged on for weeks and is inching closer

CNN By David Culver, Karol Suarez and Rachel Clarke, CNN On top of the rumbling freight train, the young man says he has been attacked and robbed. There is no shade from the burning sun in the day, nowhere to keep warm in the perishing cold of the night. But still, he says, this brutal

By David Culver, Karol Suarez and Rachel Clarke, CNN On top of the rumbling freight train, the young man says he has been attacked and robbed. There is no shade from the burning sun in the day, nowhere to keep warm in the perishing cold of the night. But still, he says, this brutal journey

By Rob Picheta, CNN The Eurovision Song Contest is back in Britain for the first time in more than two decades, and this year’s edition is one of the most anticipated ever. But the famously kitsch competition can be confusing, to say the least. Here’s what first-timers need to know about Eurovision — and how

CNN By Joe Sutton and Holly Yan, CNN, and Claudia Rebaza, Jimena de la Quintana and Florencia Trucco, CNN en Español The prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of the late American teen Natalee Holloway will be extradited to the US to face extortion and fraud charges, said officials in Peru, where Joran van der