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Neandertals’ mammoth building project
Stone Age people’s evolutionary cousins may have constructed earliest bone structures.
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Find “extinct” fish alive in South African waters
A “living fossil” gets new family members as more coelacanths turn up.
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Letters
Predators inspire poetry and fear Regarding “Lopped off” (SN: 11/5/11, p. 26): One of the Tao Te Ching’s chapters (excerpt below) is very prescient on the unintended consequences of human behavior. It was written around 500 B.C., long before our innovative abilities threatened the entire planet. It is ironic that science both leads to innovations […]
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SN Online
EARTH Scientists get closer to knowing the exact makeup of Earth’s innards.
