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Water levels are the lowest they have been in about a decade, one airboat operator told the Miami Herald.

A single vertebra unearthed near Tainan is rewriting what scientists know about prehistoric Taiwan.

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Massive piles of sargassum, the size of which have not been seen before, are floating this way, right now, sure to coat the beaches of Florida's East Coast, the Keys, and various Caribbean islands ...