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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Science News from a British perspective

Blind fish share common ancestorBlind cave fish Typhleotris madagascariensis

A family of eyeless, colourless cave-dwelling fish, separated millions of years ago, have turned up on either side of the Indian Ocean.

Hurricane Isaac satellite photoIsaac drove Mississippi backwards

Instruments measuring the flow and height of the Mississippi River find that it ran backward for 24 hours, driven by the storm surge of Hurricane Isaac.

Denisova cave in southern Siberia, RussiaCave girl's DNA gives up secrets

Scientists analyse the DNA of an 80,000-year-old Denisovan girl, shedding more light on her relation to our closest extinct evolutionary kin.

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