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NASA Is Going Mythological With Asteroid Bennu

The space agency has a craft orbiting the rock, designated Osiris Rex. A new map is presently being traced for the asteroid, and it will probably feature mythological bird names.
Paper Does NOT Mean 88% Of All Large Freshwater Creatures Are Gone

The investigation was limited to freshwater megafauna and included almost no data from South America, Africa, the Mediterranean, or the Middle East.
Earth’s largest freshwater creatures at risk of extinction

Many of the world’s freshwater megafauna—including sumo-sized stingrays, colossal catfish, giant turtles, and gargantuan salamanders—may soon find themselves on the brink of extinction.
Chaco forest, home of an ancient indigenous tribe, is destroyed at dramatic rates

The region is home to the Ayoreo Totobiegosode tribe – the last people in the Americas outside the Amazon to remain uncontacted by outsiders.
During the last ice age, humans in Africa lived in the mountains

The researchers found that humans settled higher up in the mountains earlier than previously realized and lived in the region for more extended periods as well during the Middle Pleistocene Epoch.