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slash UK slash AI for people. Hi, I'm Scientific American Assistant News Editor, Sarah Lewin-Fraiser,

and here's a short piece from the July 2020 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 non-coronavirus stories

from around the globe.

From Turks and Caicos Islands, analysis of Anole lizards collected before and after

Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, and 18 months later, revealed that the surviving

lizards and their descendants had larger and therefore grippier toe pads.

The team examined lizard photographs from natural history collections and 70 years of hurricane data to confirm the trend.

From Italy, sediment samples drawn from the Trinian Sea revealed hotspots with up to 1.9 million microplastic particles per square meter,

the highest concentration ever recorded on the seafloor.

Most of this pollution comes from wastewater and sewage systems, researchers say.

From Antarctica, paleontologists found a fossilized 40 million-year-old frog on Seymour Island,

near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The frog is related to modern ones living in temperate humid conditions in the Chilean Andes.

From Iraq, researchers probing the Turkish state archives found the earliest known record of a meteorite

causing a death. The object struck a hilltop in neighboring Iraq in 1888, killing one man and

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