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Mystery early human relatives reached Sulawesi over a million years ago, oldest evidence found on ‘hobbit’ island neighbor – Archaeology News Online Magazine

Mystery early human relatives reached Sulawesi over a million years ago, oldest evidence found on ‘hobbit’ island neighbor  Archaeology News Online Magazine Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene  Nature 1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed  Live Science Stone tool discovery could offer new clue in mystery of …

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Decades Old Mystery About Great White Sharks Just Got Even Stranger As Scientists Admit “We Have No Idea”

Decades Old Mystery About Great White Sharks Just Got Even Stranger As Scientists Admit “We Have No Idea”

Great white sharks are magnificent creatures and an icon among sea predators. But despite their fame across the world, inspiring stories, books, films, games, and more, there’s still a great deal we do not know about them. In an effort to answer a long-running question surrounding their populations, scientists have stumbled into a deeper mystery concerning their genetics that has …

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Stone tool discovery offers new clue in mystery of ancient humans living on Indonesian island

Stone tool discovery offers new clue in mystery of ancient humans living on Indonesian island

Facebook Tweet Email Link Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a region known as Wallacea. Located beyond mainland Southeast Asia, Wallacea includes a group of islands between Asia and Australia, among which Sulawesi is the largest. Previously, researchers have …

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Mystery of why sea stars keep turning into goo finally solved — and it’s not what scientists thought

Mystery of why sea stars keep turning into goo finally solved — and it’s not what scientists thought

Researchers have discovered the cause of a mysterious marine epidemic that has turned billions of sea stars into goo along the West Coast — and it’s not what they expected. Sea star wasting disease has been killing sea stars since 2013, causing catastrophic damage to ecosystems and driving the largest sea star species to the brink of extinction. Researchers thought …

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1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed

1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed

Stone tools discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are rewriting what experts thought they knew about human evolution in this region. The tools date to about 1 million to 1.5 million years ago, which suggests that Sulawesi was occupied by an unknown human relative long before our species evolved. “These are simple, sharp-edged flakes of stone that would have …

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Zach Cregger’s Eerie and Funny Horror Mystery

Zach Cregger’s Eerie and Funny Horror Mystery

Focusing on the aftermath of the mysterious disappearance of 17 children from the same third-grade class, comic turned horror auteur Zach Cregger’s Weapons has the same blend of horror and comedy that made the filmmaker’s Barbarian such a breakout success. Here, Cregger mines even more frightful suspense out of dark spaces and the supernaturally deteriorating bodies that linger within them. …

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