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130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Affects What We Eat

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Vancouver, British Columbia, is nothing short of a seafood paradise. Situated at the mouth of the formerly salmon-rich Fraser River, the city overlooks Vancouver Island to the west, and beyond that, the open Pacific Ocean. Long before it had a skyline or a deepwater port, this was a bountiful fishing ground for the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, who still depend on its waters for cultural and spiritual…

Strange 130-Year-Old Mystery of Vertebrate Evolution Solved Using Powerful X-Rays

Palaeospondylus as reconstructed by synchrotron radiation x-ray computed tomography. Credit: RIKENEvidence that the mysterious ancient fish-like vertebrate Palaeospondylus was likely one of the earliest ancestors of four-limbed animals, including humans, has been discovered by the Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory led by Shigeru Kuratani at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan, along with collaborators. Published today (May 25, 2022) in the scientific journal Nature, the study unmasks this strange…