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slash UK slash AI for people. I'm Scott Hirshberger with Scientific American as an American

Association for the Advancement of Science,

mass media science and engineering fellow. And here's a short piece from the October

2020 issue of the magazine in a 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

stories from around the globe.

From Mexico, in now flooded caves, researchers discovered the oldest known ochre mines in the Americas.

Around 12,000 years ago, inhabitants of the Yucatan Peninsula extracted the red pigment,

possibly for use as an antiseptic and sunscreen, or for symbolic purposes such as body painting.

From Italy, a massive bloom of pink algae, triggered by low snowfall and high spring and summer temperatures, could accelerate the melting of the Prasena glacier by causing the ice to absorb more

sunlight. From Botswana, at least 350 elephants have dropped dead in the Okavango panhandle since March,

and live elephants have acted disoriented or seemed partially paralyzed.

With poaching and anthrax ruled out as potential causes, investigators suspect an unknown

disease.

From Libya, a 7 million-year-old crocodile skull suggests the prehistoric animals may have traveled from Africa to the Americas.

Computerized tomography of the fossil, found in Libya, revealed a slight bump in the middle of the snout,

a feature of modern American crocodiles, but not their African counterparts.

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