Neanderthals hunted cave lions at least 48,000 years ago, and feasted on their meat, ancient bones reveal

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Pictures of the cave lion remains show the ancient bones placed on a black background. The camera has zoomed in on the cave lion's skull, featuring fearsome teeth.
The remains of a 50,000-year-old cave lion suggest it was hunted by Neanderthals.

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A 21-year-old won $40,000 for using AI to read the first word on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius

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A charred black Herculaneum scroll with red laser lines being scanned at Institut de France by Brent Seales and his team
The University of Kentucky team scanned the Herculaneum scroll and took X-ray images of the inside.

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2 women chasing a climbing record across 14 mountains both died in avalanches on their last peak

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Mount Shishapangma
Mount Shishapangma in southern Tibet, China.

Photographer: Reinhard Goldmann 50829 Cologne, Germany

This otherworldly image of an alien-like golden crab has won gold in Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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A picture shows a horseshoe crab dredging the mud accompanied by three small golden fish
A tri-spine horseshoe crab moves slowly over the mud. Its golden protective carapace hides 12 appendages. Above the horseshoe crab, a trio of juvenile golden trevallies are poised to dart down for edible morsels ploughed up by its passage.

Laurent Ballesta / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Remarkable video showed a false killer whale twisting and twirling in front of divers. The species is known to socialize with humans, even bringing them large fish.

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Man free diving with false killer whales, Revillagigedo Islands, Socorro, Baja California, Mexico.
A man free diving with false killer whales, Revillagigedo Islands, Socorro, Baja California, Mexico.

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A helicopter sparked a massive crocodile mating sex frenzy when they probably mistook the sound for a giant thunderstorm

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dozens of saltwater crocodiles on top of each other in Queensland, Australia
Dozens of saltwater crocodiles in a pen at Johnstone River Crocodile Farm in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia in 2006.

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Image shows the last remaining debris from the Titan submersible implosion recovered by the Coast Guard

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titanium endocarp of the titan submersible
The US Coast Guard recovered the aft titanium endcap from the Titan submersible, in the North Atlantic Ocean, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. The endcap was recently recovered from the seafloor and successfully transferred to a U.S. port for analysis.

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Lookout Viagra, there's a new ED treatment in town and it comes from banana spider venom

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Female Phoneutria facing the camera at eye level on a green background, usually considered one of the world's most dangerous spiders
The Brazilian banana spider is also known as the wandering spider.

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NASA's Hubble spots a mysterious flash in the middle of nowhere that defies science

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An artist's illustration shows a bright flash of blue light happening away from a galaxy.
Scientists have spotted a mysterious flash of blue light, and they don't know what is causing it.

NASA, ESA, NSF's NOIRLab, Mark Garlick , Mahdi Zamani

Big Tech made America lonely. Now it needs to fix the crisis it helped create.

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In a black glitchy abyss of floating glowing boxes full of lonely people on some form of technological device, two boxes float near each other towards connection.
Big Tech's obsession with feeding customers exactly what they want made Americans lonely. Now the industry has a chance to redeem itself.

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Now the industry needs to help bring us back together

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