An Ignoble Experiment: Look into the eyes of a Stone Age woman in this incredibly lifelike facial reconstruction

2022/09/01

Look into the eyes of a Stone Age woman in this incredibly lifelike facial reconstruction

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September 1, 2022

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Swarms of 'mini-shark' beach bugs are on a foot-biting rampage in California

(Hakai Institute)

Beachgoers in Southern California are being targeted by swarms of tiny, aggressive sea bugs, previously dubbed "mini-sharks," that seem to have a thing for feet.

The shrimplike creatures have been snapping at the ankles of locals promenading along the shoreline, leaving people hopping around in pain, according to local news reports.

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'Man of the hole,' the last member of an uncontacted tribe, dies in the Amazon

(J Pessoa)

The last surviving member of a Brazilian Indigenous tribe that was uncontacted by the outside world has died, according to officials.

The man lived alone in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest for 26 years after his tribe was killed in a series of attacks by ranchers and miners that began in the 1970s, according to Survival International, a nonprofit organization that works with Indigenous peoples to protect their land rights.

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Look into the eyes of a Stone Age woman in this incredibly lifelike facial reconstruction

(Universiti Sains Malaysia/Cicero Moraes)

You can view the virtually reconstructed face of a woman who lived about 5,700 years ago in what is now Malaysia, now that researchers have put a face to a person whose full identity remains a mystery.

A team of archaeologists from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) discovered the skeleton, which they dubbed the "Penang woman," during a 2017 dig at Guar Kepah, a Neolithic site located in Penang, in northwest Malaysia. It was one of 41 skeletons exhumed from the site over multiple excavations. Radiocarbon dating of shells found scattered around the woman's remains revealed that she lived during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, which spanned from 8,000 to 3,300 B.C. in the region.

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Curious Creatures

3D scans reveal that beetles have secret pockets on their backs

(L.V. Flórez, R.S. Janke, S. Moog, B. Weiss, M. Kaltenpoth)

If you were to compliment a female Lagria beetle on her pupa shell, she'd probably respond, "Thanks, it has pockets!"

These special pockets hold an important treasure: symbiotic bacteria that keep the pupa (and the larva that precedes this stage) safe from potentially deadly fungus. When the adult beetle emerges from the pupa, friction from the metamorphosis shoves the bacteria from these pockets into glands in the beetle's abdomen.

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These ant queens live 500% longer than workers. Now we know why.

(Hua Yan/NYU)

How far would you go to increase your life span by 500%? One ant species engages in brutal colony-wide brawls to replace recently deceased queens — and the victor not only gains the throne, but also gets a dramatic boost to their longevity.

Upon the death of a queen, Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator) battle to see which worker will take the queen's place. Winning the crown means more than pumping out eggs — it also means living 500% longer than the average worker. Now, scientists may have pinpointed how substitute queens slow their aging.

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