🗣🗣A new article led by prof. Mussi has just been published in @NatureEcoEvo : A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia)
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— Melka Kunture project (@KuntureMelka) January 20, 2023

This is very cool, seemingly older than most people expected too

isnt she a beauty

At least it prevented her from getting long COVID . If she did she might accept the MAID like this other foid

https://nypost.com/2023/12/14/news/canada-woman-with-long-covid-applies-for-assisted-suicide-report/

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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who shaped Catholic doctrine for decades before shocking the world by resigning as pontiff, has died at 95 https://t.co/oopa7yiejW

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 31, 2022

• Scientists at Auburn University injected alligator DNA into farm-raised catfish.

• The scientists found that the fish were more resistant to disease and less likely to reproduce.

• They hope the new and less disease-prone catfish will one day be sold for human consumption.

Life finds a way: Geneticists have created disease-resistant catfish using alligator DNA --- and they may one day become a part of our diet.

A group of scientists at Auburn University published a paper in January detailing their efforts to genetically modify catfish with the cathelicidin gene of an alligator.

Cathelicidin, found in the intestines, is an antimicrobial peptide responsible for helping organisms fight diseases.

The gene, which was added using CRISPR, heightened disease resistance among the catfish in comparison to wild catfish. Researchers noted that the survival rates of the catfish were "two- and five-fold higher" in an interview with MIT Technology Review.

Because researchers added the cathelicidin to a gene for a reproductive hormone, it also reduced the catfish's ability to reproduce, which they said was important to prevent genetic contamination of the hybrid fish with wild catfish.

The authors noted some uncertainties in using CRISPR technology --- primarily used and studied in mammals--- on fish. The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed.

However, researchers hope that the alligator and catfish gene-editing can be used in tandem with other catfish breeding techniques to help farmers with their catfish yields.

In 2021, an estimated 307 million pounds of live catfish were produced in the US, primarily in the south. Catfish make up over 50% of US demand for farm-raised fish.

The process of farming them is resource-intensive. Diseases spread among catfish due to lack of space on the farms where they're raised. Around 45% of catfish fingerlings die as a result of infectious diseases. Fish in general are also becoming less resistant to antibiotics.

Although consumers may be uncomfortable with the idea of their catfish sharing DNA with an alligator, Rex Dunham and Baofeng Su, two of the lead researchers of the study, told MTR that the hybrid meat would be perfectly safe.

"I would eat it in a heartbeat," Dunham told MTR.

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This image released by the Orange County District Attorney's Office shows Hannah Star Esser, who authorities have charged with killing a man by ramming her car into him after accusing him of trying to run over a cat in the street.

Esser, 20, was charged with one count of murder in the death of 43-year-old Victor Anthony Luis and is detained on $1 million bail, the Orange County District Attorney's office said in a statement Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (

She and Luis both got out of their vehicles and got into an argument that Esser recorded, authorities said.

Luis, a father of five daughters, was expecting his first grandchild this fall.

She is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 13.

The crime is still being investigated, she said.