The remains of an American mountain climber who got caught in an avalanche in Pakistan were found on Friday, according to Pakistani officials.

Sarah Mallory Geis was climbing Broad Peak in Pakistan’s Karakoram mountain range with an international group of at least 10 people when they went missing on Thursday.

A rescue team also found the remains of Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy of Oman and Pur Bahadur Gurung of Nepal on Friday.

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There were signs of several more bodies where the rescue team was searching, drone footage showed, according to local officials.

At 26,414 feet, Broad Peak is the twelfth-tallest mountain in the world.

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«We hope to continue our operations, both aerial search and the ​ ground rescue, till the time we find the survivors or the dead bodies,» Irfan Arshad, president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said Friday.

The rescue operation was temporarily halted Friday night due to weather conditions.

Renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among the missing. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Sajid Hussain, deputy director ​ of the tourism department in Gilgit-Baltistan, called the rescue area «remote and difficult.»

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«High-altitude porters and rescue teams are working to retrieve the bodies and transport them to the base camp,» the Gilgit-Baltistan police said in a Facebook post Friday. «Due to the extremely rugged terrain and challenging weather conditions, the rescue operation is being carried out with the utmost caution.»

Broad Peak is the world’s 12th tallest mountain. (AFP via Getty Images)

The other missing climbers are from Nepal, Pakistan, China and the U.K.

Renowned British mountaineer Nirmal Purja, 43, who is of Nepalese origin, and who set the record for the fastest ascent of the ​ world’s 14 highest mountains, was among the missing.

Purja was featured in the Netflix documentary «14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible.»

Massachusetts is poised to dramatically expand access to abortions access up to 24 weeks of pregnancy in a mad dash by Democrat lawmakers to pass the measure before the legislative session ends Friday.

The Prioritizing Patients’ Access to Care Act is on a fast track to clear the Massachusetts Legislature after passing the House 119-33 last week. It marks the latest effort by Democratic-led states to expand abortion protections after the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision returned abortion policy to the states.

Supporters say the New England state bill removes barriers to medically necessary care, while opponents contend it would make Massachusetts one of the nation’s least restrictive states for abortions later in pregnancy.

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If enacted, the bill would remove current legal requirements limiting abortions after 24 weeks to four specific circumstances — protecting the patient’s life, physical health, mental health, or cases involving a lethal fetal anomaly or a grave fetal diagnosis.

Instead, the bill would allow licensed physicians to decide whether an abortion after 24 weeks is appropriate based on their own medical judgment. It would also prevent third-party medical reviewers from overruling decisions made by a patient and their doctor.

The proposal mirrors a law Maine enacted in 2023 that similarly allows late-term abortions based on a physician’s judgment.

«The goal of passing this legislation is simple. Medical decisions should be made by a patient and their doctor,» bill sponsor Rep. Lindsay N. Sabadosa, D-Northampton, said in a statement. «Massachusetts has one of the best health care systems in the country, and patients should be able to rely on their providers to deliver medically appropriate care without restrictions that can fail to account for the complexity of individual medical circumstances.»

«By removing those barriers, we can ensure that no one has to leave Massachusetts to receive the care they need.»

Supporters of the bill argue that existing statutory exceptions are too narrow to account for every serious pregnancy complication.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., speaks during a Senate hearing while pointing to a chart showing fetal development stages on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Courtesy U.S. Senate Photographic services)

Claire Teylouni, interim co-executive director of Reproductive Equity Now, told the New York Times about a 2021 case in which a woman had to leave Massachusetts for an abortion after her fetus suffered a stroke at 33 weeks because providers did not believe the case fit within the state’s existing legal exceptions.

«She was shocked that she had to leave Massachusetts to get this care,» Teylouni told The New York Times. «Providers say they want to be able to use their professional expertise to make decisions — that’s how we treat almost every other area of health care.»

Opponents say the current law already includes broad exceptions and argue the bill would remove existing limits on abortions after 24 weeks.

«The current law that exists in Massachusetts allows abortion up until 24 weeks, and it already has exceptions,» Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Communications Direct Kelsey Pritchard told Fox News Digital. «It has health and life exceptions for the mother, but it even has exceptions that allow for so-called fetal anomaly abortion, so if the baby has a life-limiting diagnosis, if the baby has a disability diagnosis, already in Massachusetts you can abort those babies seemingly at any point.

«And so what this new bill would do is allow abortion throughout the second and third trimesters if you have an abortionist who has a medical degree who can sign off on that for you, so essentially they’re opening the door to elective abortion at any point in pregnancy,» Pritchard said.

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Pritchard also criticized the legislative process, saying Democratic leaders moved quickly to pass the measure before lawmakers adjourn.

«There’s really no justification for them to make their law this extreme,» she said. «It’s something that they’ve been doing in secret. They kind of tried to fly under the radar when they passed this bill in the House. And then they bypassed the full Senate committee process to fast-track this and get this done before their legislative session ends on July 31.»

Pro-life supporters celebrate outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022. The US Supreme Court ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life. The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 «Roe v Wade» decision that enshrined a woman’s right to an abortion and said individual states can permit or restrict the procedure themselves. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Republicans in the legislature also questioned both the substance of the bill and how quickly it advanced.

Republican state Rep. Kelly Pease told WWLP that he was caught off guard by the proposal.

«I think most of our caucus was. It’s like, where did this come from?» Pease said. «I don’t see how I’m going to be in favor of a bill that allows babies over six months to be terminated when they’re probably viable outside the womb, unless there’s extenuating circumstances, and this kind of just takes away some of the safeguards that were in place before.»

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey has made expanding abortion access one of the defining priorities of her administration.

Since taking office in 2023, she has called Massachusetts a «beacon of reproductive freedom» for abortion access in the post-Dobbs era, having directed state agencies to shield abortion providers and patients from out-of-state legal action and ordered the state to stockpile mifepristone after a federal court challenged the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill. She has not publicly weighed in on this bill.

Fox News Digital reached out to Healey for comment.

Un fósil hallado en el desierto del Gobi oriental de Mongolia y descrito en Nature identificó a Tamirkhan balcarceli y cambió una idea aceptada durante décadas sobre la evolución de este grupo de vertebrados. El hallazgo mostró que los llamados “Conejos del Cretácico” no pertenecían al linaje de los mamíferos placentarios, sino a los zalambdalestoideos, un grupo distinto de formas tempranas.

Según Phys.org, el espécimen apareció en 2004 durante una expedición patrocinada por el American Museum of Natural History, y su estudio reunió a científicos de esa institución, Stony Brook University, la University of Arizona y Arcadia University.

Andres Giallombardo, autor principal del estudio, dijo a Phys.org que el hallazgo demuestra por qué el trabajo de campo sigue siendo indispensable para reconstruir la historia de la vida. También lo definió como el momento más emocionante de su carrera, porque se trató de una especie nueva conservada de forma tan completa que además resolvió un problema científico de larga data.

Tamirkhan balcarceli, hallado en el Gobi oriental de Mongolia, medía entre 15 y 18 centímetros de la cabeza a la cola. Tenía patas traseras alargadas que le daban un aspecto parecido al de un conejo, una comparación informal que los paleontólogos han usado para referirse a estos animales.

El fósil conservó dientes bajos y redondeados, característicos de los zheléstidos, y también incisivos largos de crecimiento continuo. Sumó además varios rasgos del cráneo propios de los zalambdalestoideos, un grupo de pequeños mamíferos insectívoros parecidos a musarañas.

Shawn Zack, paleontólogo de la University of Arizona, afirmó a Phys.org que las patas traseras y los tobillos de Tamirkhan corresponden de forma inequívoca a los zalambdalestoideos. A partir de ese conjunto anatómico, los autores concluyeron que los zheléstidos no eran mamíferos placentarios ni especialmente parecidos a ellos.

Los zheléstidos se conocían desde hacía casi 40 años por dientes aislados y restos fragmentarios. Esas piezas, más especializadas para comer plantas que los dientes afilados de muchos mamíferos del Cretácico, llevaron a proponer que formaban un grupo desconocido.

Durante años se discutió si eran ejemplos de mamíferos placentarios del Cretácico o una línea separada que había adquirido rasgos parecidos por evolución independiente. La hipótesis de placentarios en ese período contaba con apoyo de modelos de reloj molecular, pero el nuevo fósil aportó pruebas en sentido contrario.

Paul Velazco, biólogo comparativo de Arcadia University, señaló a Phys.org que los modelos moleculares construidos a partir de animales vivos pueden anticipar el pasado, mientras los fósiles permiten comprobar esas predicciones.

Maureen O’Leary, paleontóloga de Stony Brook University e investigadora asociada del museo, subrayó en el mismo medio que un diente sigue siendo un fósil muy informativo, aunque no siempre alcanza para reconstruir al animal entero.

El espécimen también reforzó el valor científico del Gobi, uno de los pocos lugares donde se preservan zheléstidos junto con yacimientos de Kazajistán, Kirguistán y Uzbekistán.

Michael Novacek, curador de la División de Paleontología del museo, dijo a Phys.org que esa región es una de las escasas zonas donde aparecen con regularidad mamíferos del Cretácico tan completos.

Las conclusiones evolutivas del estudio también se apoyaron en MorphoBank, una plataforma filogenética publicada por primera vez en 2013. Esa base de datos se amplió durante más de una década con un número creciente de especies fósiles y sirvió como marco para analizar relaciones entre mamíferos tempranos.

El caso de Tamirkhan dejó una advertencia metodológica. Un diente puede orientar una clasificación, pero no basta por sí solo para fijar el retrato completo de un animal extinguido.