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

and here's a short piece from the January 2021 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 Costa Rica, researchers embedded GPS devices in decoy sea turtle eggs

to track poaching patterns. In their first field test, five of the 101 decoys, which had similar

size, weight, and texture to real eggs, traveled significantly, potentially reaching consumers.

In Latvia, DNA harvested from a 700-year-old public toilet in Riga, as well as a

600-year-old Cespite in Jerusalem, will help researchers examine how human microbiomes have evolved over

time. Microbial DNA from both sites matches some species common in modern hunter-gatherers and

some in today's city dwellers.

In Antarctica, new analysis suggests a 50-million-year-old footbone found on Seymour Island

comes from a species of bird whose wingspan reaches 6.4 meters across.

The researchers also attributed part of a large jawbone with tooth-like structures to the species.

In a Madagascar garden, researchers found several Volskos chameleons, a rare species whose

females can change from green to a vivid black, white and blue, when excited. The short-lived

species had not been documented for more than 100 years, and no females were previously recorded

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