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At footy training the other night, a mate took one look at the new rig and asked a blunt but entirely fair question: “Did Nissan just copy the Triton?” He’s on the money.

A tree species known only from fossils dating back roughly 90 million years has turned out to be very much alive. In 1994, a New South Wales park ranger rappelled into a narrow sandstone canyon in the ...

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