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slash UK slash AI for people. Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Murski. And here's a short

piece from the November 2019 issue of the magazine

in the section called advances. Dispatches from the frontiers of science, technology, and medicine.

The article is titled Quick Hits, and it's a rundown of some science and technology stories from around

the globe compiled by editorial intern Jennifer Lehman.

From Canada, in the famed Burgess Shale rock formation, paleontologists discovered hundreds of

fossils of a horseshoe crab-shaped predator that lived in the ocean 506 million years ago.

It measured up to a foot long. From Tanzania, marine biologists discovered

a colorful fish species dubbed the vibranium fairy wrasse during a biodiversity assessment of

largely unstudied deep reefs off Zanzibar's coast. From Colombia, scientists confirmed a destructive fungus

targeting banana plants has arrived in the country. No treatment is available, so officials put

potentially infected crops under quarantine to stop its spread. From Mexico, researchers of rationed electricity and cut temporary employees' jobs

after Mexico's president lowered funding for federal institutions by 30 to 50 percent in certain budget

items, including those supported by the National Council of Science and Technology. And from

Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea,

scientists found that Goliath frogs,

which are Earth's largest living frogs

...