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A stringed instrument more than 1,000 years old found in what is now Kazakhstan is nearly identical to one from the Sutton Hoo ‘ship burial’ in Britain.
The gigantic flying reptile Quetzalcoatlus northropi, which lived in the age of the dinosaurs, could also walk and even run, with the help of ‘ski pole’ front limbs.
Arctic waters have notched a growing number of extreme events called marine heatwaves, raising fears for the region’s more heat-sensitive sea creatures.