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More than 49,000 years ago, a family of Neanderthals set up camp in a cave high in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, overlooking a river valley where bison, red deer, and wild horses roamed. In the cave’s main gallery, a teenage girl lost a tooth, perhaps while gnawing on bison that her father or his kin had hunted in the sweeping grasslands.
Now, researchers have analyzed the genomes of this father and daughter and 12 of their relatives, many of whom sheltered in the same cave over less than 100 years. The new genomes almost double the number of Neanderthal genomes known and offer a glimpse of the Neanderthal population at the eastern end of their range, at a time when they were headed toward extinction.
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Odd that it is flying a profile that is prone to contrails.
Look at me! Look at me!
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Cool indeed! Thanks.
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One courting behaviour is pretty much like any other?
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Maybe budget/timeframe considerations. Working from an existing design that can deliver a lot you’d want (high altitude, long endurance, (radar) stealth) would make sense, even if it isn’t perfect.
Tangent: reminds me of a story my British BIL once told me. In the 1980ies he worked for an advertising company that did PR for Canon cameras. So they got samples of all the equipment Canon wanted to market in Britain, including the high-end stuff intendend for professionals. And of course the in-house photographer didn’t just photograph the products for the ads; he also toyed around with anything he fancied. One time they got a new massive telephoto lens and the photographer took it for a spin, so to speak. When he developed the films he noticed that he had accidentally caught a SR-71. Didn’t even see it while taking the pictures. IIRC they wanted to use this in one of their ads, but couldn’t get a release from the relevant authorities.
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The Virginia school board thing has been already featured on BB/BBS, but wait, there’s more:
DARPA plans to resurrect the Caspian Sea Monster
Florescent wasp nests shine light on scientist life choices
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Lots of ways to write this headline, and story. One is correct.
I’m especially disappointed in the “busted” headline, like it was some playground shenanigans.
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That’s always the terminology that should be used… rape. Because that’s what it is. This is especially common on incidents where it’s an older woman and a teenaged boy. They rarely use rape in these news stories.
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Exactly. And it’s not good for boys, who are already immersed in a culture of “get laid as much as you can” vs “she’s a slut” to have this crap framed as “had sex with.”
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Totally true.
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