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I'm Scientific American Assistant News Editor Sarah Lewin-Frasier, and here's a short piece from the December 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.

In the U.S., Western Joshua trees will get a year

of temporary endangered species status in California, while the state considers permanently listing

the distinctive succulents as the first-ever plant species protected because of climate change-related

threat. In Panama, a tropical forest ground survey revealed that one lightning strike often damages more than 20

trees, a quarter of which can die within a year. Researchers combine the finding with satellite data

to estimate that lightning kills 200 million tropical trees worldwide every year, a significant

cause of their demise. In Greenland, climate researchers discovered records of an automatic

weather station that measured negative 93.3 degrees Fahrenheit one day in December 1991, a temperature

colder than the average on Mars, and the coldest ever recorded in the northern hemisphere.

In Italy, scientists have examined a shark found south of Sardinia that somehow survived to three years old without skin or teeth.

They concluded it was a genetic mutation and planned to check nearby sediment for potential pollutant causes.

In China, newly discovered and pristinely preserved fossils suggest two sleeping dinosaurs were buried alive in an underground burrow 125 million years ago.

The burrow may have collapsed under volcanic debris.

In Australia, a new study shows how grasslands strange barren patches, called fairy circles, are landscaped by the grasses themselves.

Baking heat creates a hard clay crust over a patch of ground. Water runs off of it,

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