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World’s first known butt-drag fossil trace was left by a rock hyrax in South Africa 126,000 years ago
Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as “dassies”, are furry, thickset creatures with…
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research
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How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality
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