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Giant sea lion draws crowds to Frisco pier

SAN FRANCISCO — An intrepid sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is waddling his way into the hearts of tourists and locals who have flocked to San Francisco's Pier 39 for a glimpse of the massive pinniped. On Thursday morning, visitors snapped photos as the Steller sea lion flopped on the pier, ...

Mexico City’s sinking can be detected from space

MEXICO CITY — Mexico City is sinking by nearly 10 inches a year, according to new satellite imagery released this week by NASA, making it one of the world's fastest-subsiding metropolises. One of the world's most sprawling and populated urban areas, at 3,000 square miles and some 22 ...

WWI wreck of US Coast Guard ship found off English coast

MIAMI (AP) — The wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard ship lost in a deadly attack more than a century ago, during World War I, was been discovered off the coast of England. The Coast Guard announced Wednesday that the USCGC Tampa was found about 50 miles off Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom, at a depth exceeding 300 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean. The cutter's wreckage was located and confirmed by the British technical-diving team Gasperados. Adm. Kevin Lunday, commandant of the Coast Guard, said in a statement that the courage and sacrifice of the Tampa's crew reflected the legacy of ...

AI used to reconstruct faces at Pompeii

ROME — Archaeologists and researchers at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that smothered the city, offering a new way to understand one of history's ...