
← IFLScience - Break It Down22 aug 2025 · 35 min
Shaman Training Cave, Uranus's New Moon, And A Bright Orange Shark
This week on Break It Down: Tracks left in ancient rock suggest fish crawled out of the seas 10 million years earlier than we thought, a 140,000-year-old child’s skull is the earliest evidence Neanderthals and Homo sapiens got it on yet, a bright orange nurse shark makes history as the first example of xanthism in this species and in the Caribbean Sea, JWST spots a new moon around Uranus, bringing its total up to 29, cave paintings from the French Pyrenees suggest a dangerous “shaman training cave”, and what did ancient people think when they discovered fossils? Griffins, cyclops, or something else entirely?
So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…
Fossil trackways
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
Only surviving human species
Bright orange shark
Orange crocs
Uranus’ new moon
Shaman Training Cave
Finding fossils
We Have Questions Podcast
Northern white rhinos