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Meet Zhurong: China names Mars rover after fire god

Written by space.com

Image: CNSA/CLEP

China has named its first-ever Mars rover “Zhurong” after an ancient fire god ahead of a landing attempt on the Red Planet in May. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) revealed the name at the sixth China Space Day held in Nanjing on Saturday (April 24).

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Scientists Find New Jurassic Reptile that Looks Like a Pokémon

Written by vice.com

Image: Zhao Chuang

Scientists have discovered fossils of a new pterosaur species that lived in what is now northern China during the Jurassic period. And they are pretty adorable animals. Pterosaurs lived on Earth during the Mesozoic era (about 252 million to 66 million years ago). They were the first reptiles that could fly, with sizes ranging from that of a sparrow to as big as a giraffe.

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Little Foot: a Step Closer in Understanding Human Evolution

Written by usc.edu

 

Image: Paul John Myburgh, Courtesy of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

The USC-led study examined the shoulder assembly of Little Foot, an Australopithecus that lived more than 3 million years ago, and may have confirmed how our human ancestors used their arms.

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The Covidian Cult (Part II)

Written by consentfactory.org

Back in October of 2020, I wrote an essay called The Covidian Cult, in which I described the so-called “New Normal” as a global totalitarian ideological movement. Developments over the last six months have borne out the accuracy of that analogy.

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