Hunted for an HIV cure: the dangerous myth linking albinism to sexual exploitation
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Fossil vomit shows what one pre-dino predator hunted
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Neanderthals hunted giant elephants in Europe
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. One day over 120,000 years ago, a resourceful group of Neanderthals took down a 7,700-pound, ancient elephant in present-day Germany. Now, paleoanthropologists studying the area can confirm that the remnants of this kill are the first known scene of its kind, finally solving a nearly 80-year-old mystery. According to their study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, at least some Neanderthals knew how to successfully take down Europe’s largest megafauna, including these elephant ancestors. In 1948, a group of amateur paleontologists led by a local school headmaster were scouring a site in Lehringen, northern Germany. They stumbled upon the remains of a 125,000-year-old straight-tusked elephant. This specimen of Europe’s largest known land mammal was encased in sediment dating back to the last interglacial period. The team also identified more than just bones at the dig. In addition to fossils, the workers located a complete wooden spear that was later determined to be made by Neanderthals. Although a striking …
Indigenous communities in southern Brazil hunted large whales 5,000 years ago
The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale bone, marked and shaped by human hands. Around it are more bones, more tools, and a coastal story that reaches back 5,000 years. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Department of Prehistory of the UAB says Indigenous communities in southern Brazil hunted large whales far earlier than scholars once believed. The work places active whaling in Babitonga Bay, in Brazil’s Santa Catarina state, about a thousand years before the earliest documented evidence from Arctic and North Pacific societies. If you have ever pictured early whaling as a Northern Hemisphere breakthrough, this study asks you to redraw the map. The researchers argue these coastal communities built specialized tools, planned strategies, and social systems that made large-whale hunting possible long before the timeline most textbooks imply. Location of known sambaqui sites in the region of Babitonga Bay, in Santa Catarina state (southern Brazil). (CREDIT: Nature Communications) Shell …
He Hunted Alleged Groomers on Roblox. Then the Company Banned Him
Last month, Kentucky attorney general Russell Coleman announced the details of yet another lawsuit against Roblox over suspected pedophiles lurking on the hugely popular gaming platform. While doing so, Coleman singled out the work of one self-described “predator hunter” who claims to have helped identify alleged abusers mixing with young gamers. “Roblox is even trying to silence those who raised these security risks,” Coleman said. “The famous case of one of their developers, Schlep, immediately comes to mind.” Schlep is in fact Michael, a 22-year-old Texan who has spent the last two years working with a group of other Roblox players to track down and identify people purportedly seeking to groom young children on the platform—predators like the one Schlep says allegedly groomed him a decade ago, which he says led him to try to take his own life. In the process of attempting to out suspected groomers, Schlep—who doesn’t share his surname for privacy reasons—has amassed 2.3 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, where he highlights what he believes to be the shortcomings of …