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Baboons indicate the legendary land of Punt

Apparently baboons were introduced into Egypt from a region northwest of the Horn of Africa during the New Kingdom period - presumably this was...

DAMALS podcast, episode ten: the almost never-ending story of the Eurotunnel

On January 20, 1986, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President François Mitterand announced the construction of a tunnel under the English Channel....

Machine brain maps lunar craters

The craters of the moon are by no means all mapped. (Image: NASA) The Earth's satellite is littered with craters of various sizes and...

Oyster beds as cleaning aids

Natural oyster beds off the coast of Hong Kong. (Image: Kyle Obermann / TNC) Today, natural oyster beds have become rare in many places...

Board games – popular 400 years ago

Chess pieces from the Augsburg Art Cabinet. (Image: Greger Sundin) Whether on holidays or to pass the time in lockdown: board games are a...

How our brain tracks movement

Whether we move ourselves or whether we watch someone else doing it - both trigger similar reactions in the brain. (Image: UCLA /...

Bonobos feel obliged

If bonobos are interrupted in their social grooming, they then “faithfully” resume their obligatory behavior. (Image: USO / iStock) Interesting parallels to humans: Bonobos...

Ancient DNA reveals prehistory of the Caribbean

Early exchange in the Bahama Archipelago (Image: Merald Clark / SIBA) The first humans began to settle on the Caribbean islands around 6,000 years ago....

What determines the pitch of songbirds?

Many representatives of the passerine birds make themselves loudly heard. (Image: Buchfink, Nataba / iStock) There is chirping, beeping and humming - in very...

Formerly mammals with astonishingly precise bite

Jaw and bite of Priacodon fruitaensis. (Photo: Thomas Martin, Kai RK Jäger / University of Bonn) The teeth and jaws of early mammals reveal...

Marine microplastics: Gone with the wind

Everywhere it is teeming with the tiny decay products of human plastic waste. (Image: dottedhippo / iStock) It's teeming everywhere - the notorious microplastics...

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