Tropical snacks
Small rodents may be a tropical tree’s best friend. The trees produce large seeds and may have evolved to rely on giant mammals like mammoths to disperse them. Nowadays rodents do the job instead, shifting seeds around as they bury them to snack on later (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205184109).
Live fossil dig
A new set of hominin fossils will be excavated live online at the Maropeng Visitor Centre in South Africa. Bones of our extinct relative Australopithecus sediba have been found embedded in a rock – they may complete an existing skeleton.
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