shark ray fishing capture premature birth abortion

Being caught can trigger early births in sharks and rays

Capture while fishing can trigger premature birth or abortion in sharks and rays that carry live young. Fishers may mistake the result for a natural birth. The effect has been reported in 88 species, at least 12% of live-bearing shark and ray species.

Dionysus was worshipped by 1300 BC

Records from Mycenaean Greece on the mainland attest to his worship around 1300 BC. This makes Dionysus one of the earliest gods recorded in Greek culture, rather than a foreign god adopted only late, as he was once often described.

A tiny excess of matter was enough to build the universe we see

≈1 in 100 million

The early universe contained almost equal amounts of matter and antimatter. When the two destroyed each other, only a tiny excess of matter remained—about one surviving particle for every 100 million original matter particles. That small leftover became the matter around us today.

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shark ray fishing capture premature birth abortion

Being caught can trigger early births in sharks and rays

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