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    From :- Space.Com     By Leonard David   Edited by :- Amal Udawatta Avi Loeb, physicist at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in the observatory near his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 29, 2019. (Image credit: Adam Glanzman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) "We approach this topic with the same rigor we apply in our respective scientific fields and we hope to provide an unbiased analysis on this topic." Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAP, a new catch-all term for UFOs that might appear not just in the air but also in space or underwater. Loeb says the group is focused on evidence, instrumentation, data analysis and collection standards. The move follows recent Trump administration initiatives to bring more transparency to the topic of UFOs, or UAP. The UAP Science Advisory Council , Loeb explains, was established by the Whit...

  From : BBC News      By : Rebecca Morelle, Science Editor and Alison Francis, Senior Science Journalist   Edited by : Amal Udawatta    Tony Jolliffe/BBC News The fossil was originally found in 1985 on James Ross Island in Antarctica An unassuming-looking fossil that spent 40 years lying forgotten in a drawer has turned out to be the first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica. The specimen was unearthed in 1985, but the team that discovered it was not sure what it was - so it was stored away in the geology collection of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge. Now the fossil has been studied by palaeontologists who have confirmed that it is a tail bone from a type of dinosaur called a Titanosaur - this group contained the largest dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth. The discovery helps to reveal more about how these beasts lived in a part of the world where the fossil record is sparse. Tony Jolliffe/BBC News The discovery was recorded in geolog...