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Ancient Pandas Competed With Giant Apes For Bamboo

New fossils suggest ancient pandas ompeted with the largest known apes for habitat and food nearly half a million years ago on the tropical coast of southern China, scientists say. The 400,000-year-old fossils of a giant panda were uncovered alongside the remains of a titan-sized, ancient ape called Gigantopithecus blacki, said Huang Wanbo, a paleontologist at Beijing’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

National Geographic

Monster Sea Waves

“These giant waves have been featured in many famous literary works from the Odyssey to Robinson Crusoe, but they were just thought to be the subject of myth for a long time,” said Daniel Solli of the University of California, Los Angeles, whose study appears in the journal Nature.

MSNBC