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The modern-day Namib desert has been arid for at least 15 million years, when the extinct relatives of ostriches laid their eggs, which are like time capsules of ancient air. JP Koch/Red Dune Safaris

Oxygen atoms in 15‑million‑year‑old giant eggshells reveal how plants reacted to a hotter Earth – study

Scientists have extracted atoms from eggshells that are 15 million years old which reveal how plants responded to high levels of carbon dioxide.
Painting of a raider on horseback (bottom right) with a musket and domestic stock. A ‘rain-animal’ (top right) was likely summoned to wash away the raiders’ tracks. Courtesy of Sam Challis and Brent Sinclair-Thomson

South Africa’s bandit slaves and the rock art of resistance

Runaway slaves joined indigenous Khoe-San people and raided colonial farms. The rock art they left in their hideouts tells a fascinating story.

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