IFLScience - Break It Down

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Tropical Mammoths, Dazzling Brain Map, And Perfectly Preserved Pterosaurs

Tropical Mammoths, Dazzling Brain Map, And Perfectly Preserved Pterosaurs5 Sept 202542 min

This week on Break It Down: Queen ants are throwing the rules of reproduction out of the window by producing offspring of two different species, for the first time ever we have a complete map of brain activity and boy is it pretty, a new lineage of tropical mammoths have been discovered in Mexico, 150 million-year-old baby pterosaurs have been perfectly preserved thanks to some stormy weather, the controversy surrounding whether Homo naledi might have buried their dead is back, and we explore just how big the biggest egg on Earth really was.

So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down...

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AntsBrain mapUpload your brainTropical mammothsBacteria on mammoth teethPerfect baby pterosaursCougar submergedHomo nalediBiggest EggThe Big Questions Podcast