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4 days ago

UC Davis Researchers Discover New Species of Coastal Spider, Just in Time for Halloween | KQED

We knew that these lineages across the coast of California were really different from each other and had been separated for a very long time," said Jochim, a researcher in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at UC Davis. The spiders pose no risk to humans, Jochim said. Though our activities can pose a risk to them. "These spiders are not scary," she said. "They mind their own business and [generally] stay in their burrows ... They live in a really important and fragile ecosystem - the coastal dunes of California. So, it's really important to protect their habitat.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

What a million-year-old skull could reveal about human evolution

A one-million-year-old skull from China (Yunxian 2) may indicate Homo sapiens emerged at least 500,000 years earlier than previously believed.
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fromThe Washington Post
4 months ago

What 4,000-year-old DNA revealed about how ancient societies interacted

The oldest complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man has been sequenced, revealing insights into ancestry and population intermixing.
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