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Jellyfish blooms can slow fish recovery

Large jellyfish blooms can make it hard for depleted fish populations to recover. Jellyfish eat fish eggs and larvae and compete with fish for food. Overfishing can also remove predators of jellyfish larvae, helping jellyfish become dominant.

Greenlandic Inuit could settle disputes with song duels

In traditional drum-song performances, Greenlandic Inuit participants satirized one another in song duels to settle conflicts. The performances also served entertainment and spiritual purposes.

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Humans were making playable bone flutes more than 35,000 years ago

Archaeologists have found flutes made from bird bones and mammoth ivory in caves in southwestern Germany. Some date back more than 35,000 years, showing that early modern humans were making musical instruments in Ice Age Europe. Older objects have been proposed as instruments, but their identification is disputed. Music-making left physical traces tens of thousands of years before written history.

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Jellyfish blooms can slow fish recovery

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