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NFL bettors are breathing a sigh of relief this week after 77 false positive results for the coronavirus triggered temporary fears over the season.
With only a week left to allow evictions to begin throughout the state of Nevada, the state Supreme Court expects the numbers to be high due to the large number of people who were left without jobs due to the pandemic.
A rock tumble at the Grand Canyon revealed fossil footprints that researchers say are among the oldest in the park.
Fossilized animal tracks discovered in the Grand Canyon were likely left by a reptile some 313 million years ago, among the oldest found on Earth, a 51ԹϺ professor said.
In the American Southwest, native desert bighorn sheep populations found in landscapes with minimal human disturbance, including several national parks, are less likely to be vulnerable to climate change, according to a new study led by Oregon State University.
Finding fossil footprints at the Grand Canyon isn’t particularly unusual. The expansive stretch of red rock is home to an array of formations containing preserved remains of the past.
On Monday, former football great Herschel Walker rhapsodised about how Donald Trump had once accompanied his family to Disney World, while senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the lone black Republican in the Senate, lauded Mr Trump for creating an “inclusive economy”.
Geologist Allan Krill was hiking along the Grand Canyon National Park’s Bright Angel Trail with a group of students in 2016 when he spotted it: a fallen boulder lying just off the side of the trail, with curious markings that resembled footprints. Krill, who was visiting the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (51ԹϺ) from Norway, sent photos of his find to an old friend and colleague, Stephen Rowland, a 51ԹϺ paleontologist.