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This July 14, 2011 provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services shows fragments of bone protruding from the top edge of this piece of shale are several plesiosaur vertebrae.at the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, Mont. at a dig site for a fossil found in Montana nearly seven years ago that has led to the discovery this new species of prehistoric sea creature. The new species of elasmosaur is detailed in an article published Thursday, April 13, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The creature lived about 70 million years ago in the inland sea that flowed east of the Rocky Mountains from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. (Marcus Hockett /USFWS via AP)
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In this July 2013, photo United States Geological Survey scientist Roy Bartholomay, standing, and Flint Hall, with Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, collect a water sample from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer at a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear site in eastern Idaho. Scientists said the giant aquifer below an eastern Idaho federal nuclear facility is as free of radioactive contamination and other pollutants as it has been in more than six decades of monitoring but that the water level is at the lowest level ever recorded. (Brian Twining/USGS via AP)
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With Portage Mayor James Snyder at his side, Branch Chief from the EPA Emergency Response team Sam Borries, right, takes questions from reporters about the chemical spill in Lake Michigan. Federal officials are awaiting more test results to determine whether a potentially carcinogenic chemical entered Lake Michigan during a wastewater spill at a U.S. Steel plant in northern Indiana. (John J. Watkins /The Times via AP)
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The National Park Service has closed beaches around a chemical spill on Lake Michigan Thursday, April 13, 2017. Federal officials are awaiting more test results to determine whether a potentially carcinogenic chemical entered Lake Michigan during a wastewater spill at a U.S. Steel plant in northern Indiana. (John J. Watkins /The Times via AP)
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Though a few boats make their way onto Lake Michigan, beaches have been closed due to a chemical spill from U. S. Steel, Thursday, April 13, 2017. Federal officials are awaiting more test results to determine whether a potentially carcinogenic chemical entered Lake Michigan during a wastewater spill at a U.S. Steel plant in northern Indiana. (John J. Watkins /The Times via AP)
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File - This April 3, 2017 photo provided by Cook Inlet Spill Prevention and Response, Inc. shows pan ice taken during an agency overflight near a Hilcorp Alaska LLC offshore platform in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Alaska's Cook Inlet is home to endangered beluga whales, a significant slice of the state's wild salmon population, and along the sea floor, a spider web of petroleum pipelines. So when natural gas was found spewing from an underwater pipeline belonging to the area's largest petroleum producer, alarm bells went off. (Derek Samora/CISPRI via AP, File)
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File - This April 3, 2017 photo provided by Cook Inlet Spill Prevention and Response, Inc. shows pan ice taken during an agency overflight near a Hilcorp Alaska LLC offshore platform in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Alaska's Cook Inlet is home to endangered beluga whales, a significant slice of the state's wild salmon population, and along the sea floor, a spider web of petroleum pipelines. So when natural gas was found spewing from an underwater pipeline belonging to the area's largest petroleum producer, alarm bells went off. (Derek Samora/CISPRI via AP, File)
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to a group of miners during a visit to Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company's Harvey Mine in Sycamore, Pa., Thursday, April 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows the northernmost boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. Western Democrats are pressuring President Donald Trump not to rescind land protections put in place by President Barack Obama, including Utah's Bears Ears National Monument. Obama infuriated Utah Republicans when he created the monument on 1.3 million acres of land that is sacred to Native Americans. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
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North Korea was ready to conduct a nuclear test in April but postponed it under pressure from China. Satellite images showed evidence. U.S. officials now see similar signs of activity that could lead to a sixth underground nuclear test. (Associated Press/File)
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This satellite image released and notated by Airbus Defense & Space and 38 North on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, shows the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea. (Airbus Defense & Space/38 North/Pleiades CNES/Spot Image via AP)
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This satellite image released and notated by Airbus Defense & Space and 38 North on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, shows the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea. (Airbus Defense & Space/38 North/Pleiades CNES/Spot Image via AP)
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This satellite image released and notated by Airbus Defense & Space and 38 North on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, shows the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea. (Airbus Defense & Space/38 North/Pleiades CNES/Spot Image via AP)
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Bishop Eugene Wellington of Slidell, Louisiana. Images courtesy of Mr. Wellington.
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The hybrid model of the Honda Clarity is shown during a media preview at the New York International Auto Show, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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This image released by Universal Pictures shows Charlize Theron, left, and Vin Diesel in "The Fate of the Furious." (Matt Kennedy/Universal Pictures via AP)
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This image released by Universal Pictures shows Charlize Theron, right, and Vin Diesel in "The Fate of the Furious." (Universal Pictures via AP)
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This image released by Universal Pictures shows Charlize Theron, left, and Vin Diesel in "The Fate of the Furious." (Universal Pictures via AP)
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This artist's rendering provided by Gabriel Lio in April 2017 shows the Teleocrater rhadinus, a four-legged, meat-eating reptile and a close relative of dinosaurs, hunting a cynodont, a close relative of mammals. Researchers who found its fossils in Tanzania in 2015 describe it in a paper released Wednesday, April 12, 2017 by the journal Nature. (Gabriel Lio/Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires via AP)
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This Tuesday, April 11, 2017 photo provided by Avian Haven shows a bald eagle at the Avian Haven bird rehabilitation center in Freedom, Maine, that was rescued near the border of Maine and Canada. The bird, nicknamed the "Old Man," was tagged nearly 34 years ago, in June 1983, and is believed to be the oldest of its kind ever documented in the wild in Maine. (Glori Berry/Avian Haven via AP)
