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A little-known frilled shark has been found off the Algarve coast in Portugal by scientists, who were conducting research on minimising unwanted catches in European fisheries.

It’s a rare discovery given the depths in which the shark Chlamydoselachus anguineus is found, living 500 to 1,000 metres below the sea. In this case, the shark was caught at a depth of 700 metres.

Researchers from Portugal’s national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organisation, IPMA, said it was a “true living fossil,” because its remains had been unchanged for 80 million years, according to BBC News‘ translation of a Sic Noticias report. Read more…

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Predatory behaviour, sexual assault, and harassment is being reported almost daily in Hollywood now, from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein to Louis C.K.’s admitted sexual misconduct.

Inspired by the #MeToo campaign supporting and empowering survivors of sexual abuse to speak out, hundreds of women gathered at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Nov.12.

The #MeToo Survivors’ March saw women marching with protest placards and signs, detailing personal stories of abuse and messages of support for survivors. The march followed a “Take Back the Workplace” march earlier in the day, and they moved in unity along the Hollywood Walk of Fame to the CNN building for a rally. Read more…

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Sometimes the thought of sabotaging your friend’s live TV appearance proves too difficult to resist.

Ted Kravitz, a pit lane reporter for Sky Sports’ Formula 1 coverage, was at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday. 

Kravitz was showing off pictures of New Zealand driver Brendon Hartley as a child on his phone in his segment Ted’s Notebook, explaining why Hartley had chosen the number 28 for his car. 

But someone couldn’t resist messing with Kravitz, with a contact called “MSY Mob” causing an almighty cock-up with a well timed text message. Read more…

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Pop singer Kesha smashed out another powerful performance at the 2017 MTV EMAs on Sunday, bringing cathartic single “Learn to Let Go” to the stage with glitter and rainbows aplenty.

Hitting London’s SSE Arena Wembley, the highly underestimated singer performed the self-healing anthem from her latest album, Rainbow. A simulated rainbow engulfs Kesha and her dancers, before a bona fide glitter storm erupts.

The single, released in July, comes from her first album since the sexual abuse claims and legal ordeal with Sony producer Dr. Luke.

“As much as our past creates who we are, we can’t let it define us or hold us back. And especially if you’ve been through something hard, and we all have, you can’t hold on to resentment because it’s like a poison,” Kesha wrote of the song in HuffPost. Read more…

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Eminem’s Revival is off to a great start. 

Two days after the rapper dropped the first track from his new album, he showed up at the MTV EMAs to perform it in person.

And even though Beyoncé wasn’t around to lend her vocals this time, Eminem had no trouble commanding the stage with his intense, introspective performance. (Skylar Grey, who co-wrote Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie,” subbed in for Beyoncé’s parts.)

Eminem’s spent the past several weeks teasing the impending release of Revival – his first new album in four years – but as of now, we don’t know exactly when it’ll hit. If the rollout of “Walk on Water” is any indication, though, Eminem still knows exactly how to make a big splash.  Read more…

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After watching Stranger Things 2, we now know there are more experiments than just Eleven. In the middle of the season we meet Eight, so we can only expect that we’ll learn more about her in the next season, and also about the other experiments. 

Here’s what we can assume about the other experiments and what powers they will have:

Ten (Sharlene)

Power: Amazing test taker.

Background: Sharlene is a fantastic test taker and therefore has stayed in middle school her whole life. She doesn’t realize she can move up because she doesn’t have parents but if she did she would probably have a PhD. Read more…

Nine (Janet)

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Gal Gadot’s got fans all over the world, and over the weekend she got to meet a very special one who’s got a few fans of her own.

At the Governors Awards on Saturday, the Wonder Woman star posted for a photo with Brooklynn Prince, the 7-year-old breakout star of The Florida Project. It looked every bit as aww-worthy as you’d expect.

The young actress had previously told Entertainment Weekly that she hoped to meet Gadot, and TheWrap that she looked up to her. (Prince is also a huge fan of Star Wars star Daisy Ridley, so expect some more sweet photo opps as awards season drags on.)  Read more…

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Singles Day is like if Amazon Prime Day was a real national holiday. And this year, shoppers in China spent $25 billion in 24 hours. 

The 8-year-old e-commerce holiday promoted by Alibaba—Amazon’s biggest competitor and an e-commerce force in China—started as an anti-Valentine’s Day encouraging single people to buy gifts for themselves every Nov. 11. Now, it comes with crazy deals and nationally televised concerts. This year, Nicole Kidman and Pharrell Williams made appearances. 

Shoppers spent $25.3 billion, or 168.2 billion yuan, this year—a 40 percent jump from last year’s $17.8 billion. That’s 1.48 billion transactions, or 256,000 transactions per second at the day’s peak.  Read more…

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Stranger Things is an addicting experience that always seems to hit the right nostalgic senses in your brain that make you think, “let me throw away my entire weekend by binging this show.” 

After you’ve devoured the second season you scour the internet for super fans like yourself. The ones who decided to finish the nine episode season in one sitting. 

Maybe you read some reviews, checked out some after show interviews, and then eventually all you were left with were the glorious Stranger Things memes.

The show consists of a world with a parallel universe filled with demogorgons, and now we have memes that are the perfect parallels between Hawkins, Indiana and pop culture.  Read more…

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Taylor Swift’s latest album is touching everybody, including your local traffic reporter.

Laura Hettiger provides traffic coverage for KMOV St. Louis. On Friday, Hettiger decided she would spice up her coverage by sprinkling in lyrics from Taylor Swift’s newest album, Reputation.

No matter how you feel about Taylor Swift, you’ve got to stand behind this wordplay.

Swift was so touched she even retweeted the broadcast.

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