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1€ = 1.1201$ Daily News… CAVEMAN’S BEST FRIENDS? PRESERVED ICE AGE PUPPIES AWE SCIENTISTS The hunters searching for mammoth tusks were drawn to the steep riverbank by a deposit of ancient bones. To their astonishment, they discovered an Ice Age puppy’s snout peeking out from the permafrost. Five years later, a pair of puppies perfectly preserved in Russia’s far northeast region of Yakutia and dating back 12,460 years has mobilised scientists across the world. «To find a carnivorous mammal intact with skin, fur and internal organs -- this has never happened before in history,» said Sergei Fyodorov, head of exhibitions at the Mammoth Museum of the North-Eastern Federal University in the regional capital of Yakutsk. And the discovery could contribute to the lively scientific debate over the origin of domesticated dogs. When the hunters stumbled on the first frozen pup in 2011, they alerted Fyodorov who immediately flew out to the remote Arctic tundra, about 4,700 kilometres (2,900 miles) from Moscow and only 130 kilometres from the Laptev Sea, which borders the Arctic Ocean. Last year he returned for a more thorough look and found the second puppy close to the same spot, farther down the slope. Both had died when they were about three months old. They most likely come from the same litter, said Fyodorov. Last week he oversaw the removal of the second puppy’s remarkably well-preserved brain -- «the first in the world», he said. «Puppies are very rare, because they have thin bones and delicate skulls,» he said. The duo have been named the Tumat Dog, after the nearest village to the site. Fyodorov said a preliminary look at the mammoth remains also found at the dig suggested some had been butchered and burned, hinting at the presence of humans. It remains to be seen, however, whether the puppies were domesticated or wild.
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THE ROYAL RAINMAKERS When drought strikes, Thailand turns to its Royal Rainmakers -- an airborne team which seeds the clouds over the kingdom. The country is the grip of its worst drought for decades, with 22 of its 76 provinces affected. So the Thai Department of Royal Rainmaking is sending up its planes to try to cajole the clouds into producing rain. «The first step is making clouds by spraying salt-powder,» according to Wiraphon Sudchada, a scientist who is part of the team. «Then we mix calcium chloride and calcium oxide and spray it into clouds carrying humidity to make them bigger,» he added.
MISTREATING ORCAS Environmental campaigners said Sunday they were taking legal action against a French marine park, Europe’s largest, over the treatment of its orca whales and other animals after many were killed in a recent storm. The Antibes Marineland reopened a week ago after suffering severe damage in deadly storms that struck the Cote d’Azur, on France’s Mediterranean coast, in October. Many animals and fish at the park were killed in the storm, including Valentin, a 19-year-old orca whale which succumbed to internal injuries a week later.
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