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I'm Scott Hirschberger, 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. From Polynesia,

through a genetic analysis of modern-day Polynesians and indigenous people from South America's

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