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World's Oldest Purse Found

World's Oldest Purse Found — Studded With a Hundred Dog Teeth?

"It seems to have been very fashionable at the time."
The world's oldest purse may have been found in Germany—and its owner apparently had a sharp sense of Stone Age style.

Excavators at a site near Leipzig (map) uncovered more than a hundred dog teeth arranged close together in a grave dated to between 2,500 and 2,200 B.C.

According to archaeologist Susanne Friederich, the teeth were likely decorations for the outer flap of a handbag.

"Over the years the leather or fabric disappeared, and all that's left is the teeth. They're all pointing in the same direction, so it looks a lot like a modern handbag flap," said Friederich, of the Sachsen-Anhalt State Archaeology and Preservation Office.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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Glowing Pygmy Shark Lights Up to Fade Away

Glowing Pygmy Shark Lights Up to Fade Away
Camouflage key to "one of the most mysterious areas of shark biology."

In what may sound like soggy logic, the smalleye pygmy shark hides in the dark by lighting up, a new study says.

The research is helping to illuminate one of sharkdom's biggest evolutionary puzzles: how some species came to shine in the first place.

"More than 10 percent of currently described shark species are luminous," lead study author Julien Claes said via email.

"However, bioluminescence remains one of the most mysterious areas of shark biology," added Claes, a biologist with Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain.

Growing to be just 6 inches (15 centimeters) long, the smalleye pygmy is among the world's smallest sharks. In its deep, open-ocean habitat, the species' shining blue belly acts as camouflage, the study says.

"If you're swimming in the deep-blue dark waters, seen from underneath, you create a shadow against the bluish light coming from the surface," said study co-author Jérôme Mallefet.

"If you produce the same bluish light on your belly, you disappear—you don't show your shadow anymore," added Mallefet, also a biologist at the Catholic University of Louvain.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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World's Ugliest Dog

World's Ugliest Dog: The Evolution of Mugly's Frightful Features

Scientists untangle the roots of hairless breeds—moles, "weird" skin, and all.
Almost every year for the past decade, a Chinese crested has won the World's Ugliest Dog Contest in Petaluma, California. This year was no exception.

The 2012 winner, crowned on June 22, is eight-year-old Mugly, a bald and beady-eyed crested who sports stringy whiskers weirdly reminiscent of dental floss

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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http://UNB-facts.blogspot.com

Human Ancestors Ate Bark

Human Ancestors Ate Bark — Food in Teeth Hints at Chimplike Origins
Fossil find shows our forebears ate, and lived, experimentally, experts say.

Bits of food stuck in the two-million-year-old teeth of a human ancestor suggest some of our forebears ate tree bark, a new study says.

A first ever find for early human ancestors, the bark evidence hints at a woodsier, more chimplike lifestyle for the Australopithecus sediba species. Other so-called hominins alive at the time are thought to have dined mostly on savanna grasses.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
Yosof_90@yahoo.com
http://UNB-facts.blogspot.com

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Friday, September 21, 2012

World's Oldest Purse Found

Glowing Pygmy Shark Lights Up to Fade Away

World's Ugliest Dog

Human Ancestors Ate Bark

Gravelly Hill Interchange

Armadillo Girdled Lizard !

Abandoned Soviet Battleship