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  1. Animals

    Hidden Depths: Antarctic krill startle deep-ocean scientists

    The first camera lowered 3,000 meters to the seabed off the coast of Antarctica videoed what biologists identify as the supposedly upper-ocean species of Antarctic krill.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Anthropology

    Digging that Maya blue

    The unusual pigment Maya blue was probably made over an incense fire as part of a ceremony honoring the rain god Chaak, a new analysis of a pot reveals.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg

  3. 19930

    I feel that Rachel Ehrenberg was entirely too glib in this article. The description of an ancient Mayan religious ritual as “plucking the hearts from humans and tossing the bodies into the sacred cenote” is disrespectful.