Mary Joe

Researchers Have Determined That The India Jumping Ant Is The First Known Insect Capable of Shrinking (By 20%) And Increasing Its Brain Size. The Ants Are Said To Decrease Their Brain Size In A Bid To Become Queen, Conserving Their Brain Energy For Reproduction. They, However, Increase Their Brain Size To Normal If Their Bid Fails.

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Just Like The Human Opposable Thumbs, Which Can Be Moved Around To Touch Other Fingers, Enabling Us To, E.G, Climb And Grab Things, A Pterosaur, Named Monkeydactyl, May Be The Oldest Creature With Opposable Thumbs. This Attribute Probably Allowed This Flying Reptiles To Climb Trees, About 160 Million Years Ago, To Feed On Insects And Preys.

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Rachael Blackmore, A 31-Year-Old Irishwoman, And A Professional Jockey Since 2015 Is Now The First Woman, Riding Minella Times, To Win Britain’s Grand National Horse Race–A Male-Dominated Sport. Blackmore Is The 20th Female Jockey To Compete In The Grand National Race Since 1839. And Women Have Only Being Permitted As Jockeys Since 1975.

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A New Study, Based On 46 Male College Students And 1060 University Students, Is Indicating That The Higher The Psychopathic Traits In Folks, The Better They Are At Faking Remorse. And The More They Are Seen As Trustworthy, Especially By Women Who Show Higher Levels Of Emotionality. For Example, Sentimentality, Anxiety, And Fearfulness.

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A New Species Of Parasitic Wasp, Named Chrysis Parabrevitarsis (CP), Has Been Discovered In Norway. CP, Which Is Like Other Cuckoo Wasps, Was Discovered Using DNA Coding Techniques. CP Lays Eggs In Bees And Other Wasps Nests, Which Then Hatch Before The Host’s Eggs, Enabling CP’s Larvae To Eat The Host’s Eggs, Larvae, And Other Nest Food.

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The 4m-Long Saint-Bélec Slab, First Discovered In 1900, May Be Europe’s Oldest Map, With Its Markings Depicting A Rough 3D Match To The River Region In Which The Ancient Saint-Bélec Burial Mound Existed. There Are Such Stone Map Carvings All Over The World, But This May Be The First Map, Globally, To Depict An Area On A Specific Scale.

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Shigir Idol, The Oldest Known Wooden Sculpture In The World, First Discovered In 1890, In The Ural Mountains In Russia, Has Come To Be Symbolic. The Idol, Dated To ~12,250 Years Old, Has Come To Indicate That The People Of The Period, Who Created It, Contrary To What Researchers Originally Thought, Had An Appreciation For Sophisticated Art.

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Researchers, Based On NASA’s Chandra Observatory Snapshots In 2002 And 2017, Have For The First Time Discovered X-Ray Activity From Uranus, With Most X-Rays Scattered From The Sun. But Other X-Rays Are Unaccounted For, As Researchers Think Uranus Rings, Like Saturn’s Rings, Could Be An X-ray Source. The X-Rays Could Broaden Our Understanding Of Uranus.

Researchers, Based On Pollen And Leaf Fossils, Are Indicating That The Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Caused Modern Day Tropical Rainforests To Emerge. And This Was Probably By One Or More Mechanisms: The Killing Of The Dinosaurs That Impacted The Ecosystem; Via The Nutrient-Rich Ash Deposits; Or The Preferential Extinction Of Conifer Species.

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Researchers May Have Discovered 2 Theia Remains Inside The Earth’s Mantle. Theia Is Said To Have Collided With Earth 4.5 Byr Ago, Knocking Off The Rock That Formed The Moon. Theia Remains, Supported By Isotopic Evidence And Modeling, Are Said To Be In The Large Low-Shear Velocity Provinces, Probably Beneath W. Africa And The Pacific Ocean.

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