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   From: BBC World News By :-   Nadine Yousif      Senior Canada reporter Edited by:  Amal Udawatta  Supplied by Rocky Avery The floating island was first spotted by boaters in mid-August   A small, floating island on a lake in the Canadian province of British Columbia has been spotted again after officials lost track of it on satellite images following its initial discovery. The forested island was first spotted in the middle of Williston Reservoir, BC's largest fresh water lake, in early August by boaters who captured the scene in a video that has since gone viral. : S A satellite image from late July confirmed the existence of the island, which is the size of about one-and-a-half American football fields. But a few weeks later, it had vanished from that spot. Officials in BC say they have now been able to locate it again near shore, though it's unclear where it came from. Bob Gammer, a spokesperson for BC Hydro, a government-owned uti...

                                                   From - BBC World News                                                  By -  Victoria Gill    Science correspondent                                                  Edited by - Amal Udawatta Fernando Ugarte Fin whales feed in ice-free East Greenland waters, as scientists observe from their boats Sea ice has been disappearing from East Greenland, allowing giant whales to take advantage and move in to previously inaccessible areas. That is the conclusion of a decades-long study that has recorded - and filmed - hundreds of the world's biggest whales in...

  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...