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Turtle-headed sea snake

Sea snakes are turning black in response to industrial pollution

10 August 2017

Indo-Pacific sea snakes living in polluted waters near industrial areas have darker bodies – perhaps because pollutants bind better to their dark skin pigment
mammoth tusk

See the 'tuskers' hunting woolly mammoths in Siberian permafrost

19 July 2017

It's an entrepreneurial horse race in some of the poorest villages in Siberia, as "tuskers" hope to strike it rich by selling prehistoric ivory to Chinese buyers

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