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MAYBE HUMANS WEREN&#= x2019;T THE SMARTEST AFTER ALL
Friday, February 10, 2023
In today’s newsletter, w= e learn who first used stone tools (hint: it wasn't us), discov= er a giant phantom jellyfis= h, listen in on the first vo= icemails, see nearly endangered animals being sold online =2E=2E=2E and nap with a peaceful = polar bear=2E
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It was a startling surprise=2E

Researchers announced Thursday that = the oldest known stone tools have been found, but—get this—th= ey may not have been made by a human ancestor=2E

They were found alo= ngside fossils from the hominin Paranthropus, reinforci= ng a theory that human ancestors were not the first to use such tools=2E
Previous researchers thought hominins in the genus Homo= —who definitely used stone tools—were smarter, but perha= ps other factors put human ancestors ahead in the evolutionary lottery=2E I= t’s a humbling moment—and questions many suppositions about h= uman dominance=2E

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PHOTOGRAPH BY T=2EW= =2E PLUMMER, HOMA PENINSULA PALEOANTHROPOLOGY PROJECT

Unsettling discovery: More than 300 stone = tools have been unearthed at this site (pictured above)= in southwestern Kenya=2E They date back some 3 million years and are raisi= ng questions about human origins and dominance=2E Read more
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Beep! It’s the world’s first voicemail—and it came= sooner than you think (Above, a Voice-o-Graph booth in = 1958)
COVID can trigger tinnitus=2E Could the vaccines do the same= ?
What you don’t know about= menopause, hot flashes, and depression
Discovered: A rare giant jellyfish, deep in th= e Antarctic
For decades, secretive China hid the discovery of an 800-year-old shipw= reck
The pleasure palace that coddled and enabled ‘the world’s= greatest lover’
Code-maker extraordinaire: Mary, Queen of Scots
Hike the first= backpacking trail in the U=2ES=2E’s only tropical rainforest
What your lips reveal about your health
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Etsy sells just about everything: Including de= ad, near threatened species, apparently=2E During last October alone, resea= rchers monitoring international wildlife trade found more than 500 ads on E= tsy and 71 on eBay for products made from bats, including hats and barrette= s decorated with the flying mammals=2E (Etsy declined to comment=2E) Now th= e challenge is to discover the scale and impact of the trade, Nat Geo's Wildl= ife Watch reports=2E (Online shoppers bought painted woo= lly bats, like the one above=2E)

Related: Bats are being killed so people can suck their blood
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The people have spoken: Out of nearly 39,000 i= mages from 93 countries, 25 images have been shortlisted for the Wildlife Photogra= pher of the Year 58 People’s Choice Awards=2E Among the honorees is = Nat Geo photographer Martin Gregus for an image= of a polar bear among fireweed in the Canadian Arctic=2E It is similar to = the one above, featured in our st= ory on the softer side of polar bears=2E

Rela= ted: = How snow leopards are finally coming into view—the 'ghost' featured = in this year's winning image
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PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER W= OITSCHIKOWSKI
What is this? A peacock’s feather? Blad= es of wheat? Expert micro-photographer Peter Woitschikow= ski can find the exotic in every day objects, even one (above) that you may swallow every morning=2E What is it? Click here to find out=2E
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Today’s soundtrack: The Magic= Number, De La Soul (h/t Vernon Rei= d)

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