SCIENCE IN THE NEWS WEEKLY
California Property Owner Fined for Excavation
The L.A. Times reported that a property owner in Huntington Beach, Calif., was fined $430,000 last week for unearthing artifacts at a 9,000-year-old Native American village site near the Bolsa Chica wetlands. The excavation was conducted without the state's authorization and without a Native American monitor present, a requirement under state law.
In other news of the ancient past, scientists have identified the earliest known example of aerobic metabolism, the process of using oxygen as fuel. The discovery may even provide clues as to where the oxygen came from in the first place.
Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti. The Abominable Snowman. Such a giant, mythical ape is not real--at least, not anymore. But more than a million years ago, an ape as big as a polar bear lived in South Asia, until going extinct 300,000 years ago.
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