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18 July 2012

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 ().

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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